Installation view
Oliver Osborne,
Portrait of a Fat man for Düsseldorf, 2022
28x26cm, oil on linen
Oliver Osborne,
Untitled, 2021
160x190cm, acrylic on linen, artist's frame
A Portrait of a Fat Man for Düsseldorf is an exhibition by Oliver Osborne showing two paintings from the past two years. One figurative, one abstract, the two paintings share an attempt to understand how memory, looking and the slippery effect of digital life impress upon an analogue medium. Painting itself remains the artist’s primary subject; its function as a language and its behaviour as a discipline. Through this investigation a project is beginning to emerge which pits the impact screens have had on how we see against the historical grammar of painting.
Oliver Osborne (born 1985 in Edinburgh, lives and works in Berlin) has held solo exhibitions at Tanya Leighton, Berlin in 2022; Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca in 2021; Braunsfelder, Cologne in 2020; Gió Marconi, Milan in 2019; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn in 2018; Tanya Leighton, Berlin in 2017; Peles Empire, Berlin and Vilma Gold, London in 2016; Gió Marconi, Milan and Catherine Bastide, Brussels in 2015; Frutta, Rome and Vilma Gold, London in 2013. Other recent exhibitions include ‘kSuL22svwBxgJ2Z’ at Pas une Orange, Barcelona in 2021; ‘Osborne/Empire’ at Moran Moran, Los Angeles in 2018; ‘Plant Scenery of the World’ at Inverleith House, Edinburgh, ‘Home is not a place’ at the German Embassy, London in 2017 and ‘Summerfest’ at Max Hetzler, Berlin in 2017; ‘The Written Trace’ at Paul Kasmin, New York and ‘The Funnies’ at MOT International, Brussels in 2015; ‘The Go Between’ at Museo di Capodimonte, Naples and Sprovieri, London, and ‘Everything Falls Faster Than An Anvil’ Pace Gallery, London in 2014; and ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ at ICA, London in 2012. Osborne’s work has been the subject of catalogues published by Braunsfelder, Cologne in 2020; Bonner Kunstverein in 2018 and Mousse in 2016.
Installation view
Oliver Osborne,
Portrait of a Fat man for Düsseldorf, 2022
28x26cm, oil on linen
Oliver Osborne,
Untitled, 2021
160x190cm, acrylic on linen, artist's frame
A Portrait of a Fat Man for Düsseldorf is an exhibition by Oliver Osborne showing two paintings from the past two years. One figurative, one abstract, the two paintings share an attempt to understand how memory, looking and the slippery effect of digital life impress upon an analogue medium. Painting itself remains the artist’s primary subject; its function as a language and its behaviour as a discipline. Through this investigation a project is beginning to emerge which pits the impact screens have had on how we see against the historical grammar of painting.
Oliver Osborne (born 1985 in Edinburgh, lives and works in Berlin) has held solo exhibitions at Tanya Leighton, Berlin in 2022; Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca in 2021; Braunsfelder, Cologne in 2020; Gió Marconi, Milan in 2019; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn in 2018; Tanya Leighton, Berlin in 2017; Peles Empire, Berlin and Vilma Gold, London in 2016; Gió Marconi, Milan and Catherine Bastide, Brussels in 2015; Frutta, Rome and Vilma Gold, London in 2013. Other recent exhibitions include ‘kSuL22svwBxgJ2Z’ at Pas une Orange, Barcelona in 2021; ‘Osborne/Empire’ at Moran Moran, Los Angeles in 2018; ‘Plant Scenery of the World’ at Inverleith House, Edinburgh, ‘Home is not a place’ at the German Embassy, London in 2017 and ‘Summerfest’ at Max Hetzler, Berlin in 2017; ‘The Written Trace’ at Paul Kasmin, New York and ‘The Funnies’ at MOT International, Brussels in 2015; ‘The Go Between’ at Museo di Capodimonte, Naples and Sprovieri, London, and ‘Everything Falls Faster Than An Anvil’ Pace Gallery, London in 2014; and ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ at ICA, London in 2012. Osborne’s work has been the subject of catalogues published by Braunsfelder, Cologne in 2020; Bonner Kunstverein in 2018 and Mousse in 2016.
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Schirmerstrasse 61
Backyard
40211 Duesseldorf
Germany
info@jvdw.gallery
+49 211 868 1703
Schirmerstrasse 61
Backyard
40211 Duesseldorf
Germany