Ian Davenport: Colourfall, Waddington Custot Galleries, London
The show is a 25-year retrospective focused on the artist’s signature vertically striped works
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Davenport has called his paintings “Josef Albers meets Saturday Night Fever”: glossy, smoothly reflective, luscious abstraction rooted in the urban milieu of the Young British Artists.
This show is a 25-year retrospective focused on Davenport’s signature vertically striped works, formed by pouring pools of paint into huge drips, in palettes derived here from The Simpsons, there from Holbein’s “The Ambassadors”. The optimism and wit are irresistible.
020 7851 2200, to July 12
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