Twilight is a Place of Promise
Esther Schipper is delighted to present Twilight is a Place of Promise featuring the work of 19 international artists born between 1895 and 1996. The exhibition offers a perspective on the politics of image-making鈥攑ersonal, social, political, historical鈥攖aking painting and the artists鈥� diverse approaches to the practice as its focus. It is partisan in its polysemy, insistent only on the confluence of nuance and power.
Emerging three years after the gallery鈥檚 2021 exhibition L鈥業nvitation au voyage, which invoked the freedom of imaginary travel in the form of fantasy or dreams, Twilight is a Place of Promise presents works of painters that look beyond conventional categorizations of subject and object, external and internal worlds. The works in the exhibition imagine spaces of inwardness, spirituality, and shared humanity, with the show鈥檚 title inspired by Harryette Mullen鈥檚 poem The Only Ones.
Twilight is a Place of Promise proposes an expanded understanding of painting beyond categories such as abstract and figurative, oil or pigment-based and collage or object-based. A central objective of the exhibition is to set aside fixed ideas of what are masculine or feminine characteristics of painting. The exhibition鈥檚 selection reevaluates assumptions about the meanings of form, subject matter and technique and their connection to the painter鈥檚 identity. The works in the exhibition have in common a fearless negotiation of circumstance, identity and form.
Another important theme of the exhibition is the choice to paint and live as an artist, decisive acts with social and political repercussions. Exhibited artists have devised unique approaches to the practice: be it by refusing overt subject matter and finding meaning in shapes, pattern and structures; by focusing on domestic and intimate scenes; by taking motifs such as the nude, historically the realm of male painters, and claiming it for themselves; or by appropriating found imagery and reworking it.
Installed in an exhibition design conceived by Emilia Margulies, Twilight is a Place of Promise highlights diversity and fluidity. The five elements of the architecture, built in wood and metal, converge in the center of the space to create multiple points of crossing, putting the works in dialogue and productive tension. In addition to a full digital presence with written and visual documentation, a program of talks with selected artists accompanies the exhibition.
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Esther Schipper is delighted to present Twilight is a Place of Promise featuring the work of 19 international artists born between 1895 and 1996. The exhibition offers a perspective on the politics of image-making鈥攑ersonal, social, political, historical鈥攖aking painting and the artists鈥� diverse approaches to the practice as its focus. It is partisan in its polysemy, insistent only on the confluence of nuance and power.
Emerging three years after the gallery鈥檚 2021 exhibition L鈥業nvitation au voyage, which invoked the freedom of imaginary travel in the form of fantasy or dreams, Twilight is a Place of Promise presents works of painters that look beyond conventional categorizations of subject and object, external and internal worlds. The works in the exhibition imagine spaces of inwardness, spirituality, and shared humanity, with the show鈥檚 title inspired by Harryette Mullen鈥檚 poem The Only Ones.
Twilight is a Place of Promise proposes an expanded understanding of painting beyond categories such as abstract and figurative, oil or pigment-based and collage or object-based. A central objective of the exhibition is to set aside fixed ideas of what are masculine or feminine characteristics of painting. The exhibition鈥檚 selection reevaluates assumptions about the meanings of form, subject matter and technique and their connection to the painter鈥檚 identity. The works in the exhibition have in common a fearless negotiation of circumstance, identity and form.
Another important theme of the exhibition is the choice to paint and live as an artist, decisive acts with social and political repercussions. Exhibited artists have devised unique approaches to the practice: be it by refusing overt subject matter and finding meaning in shapes, pattern and structures; by focusing on domestic and intimate scenes; by taking motifs such as the nude, historically the realm of male painters, and claiming it for themselves; or by appropriating found imagery and reworking it.
Installed in an exhibition design conceived by Emilia Margulies, Twilight is a Place of Promise highlights diversity and fluidity. The five elements of the architecture, built in wood and metal, converge in the center of the space to create multiple points of crossing, putting the works in dialogue and productive tension. In addition to a full digital presence with written and visual documentation, a program of talks with selected artists accompanies the exhibition.
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