Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong, is hosting a solo exhibition of new works by American artist David Salle who is hailed as a leader in the return to figurative painting in the 1980s. The show will run through November 12, 2016.
Salle’s body of work emerges from a long-standing involvement with performance and film. He tends to reference cinematic devices - close-ups, zooms, montage, splicing - all which eventually become a visible part of each painting’s narrative. He considers the act of painting as intrinsically performative, something someone does, physically, in a specific moment in time and as such both un-predictable and un-repeatable.
The exhibition is on view at Lehmann Maupin, 407 Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong.
