The Future Perfect®
L21 Gallery•Jun 27, 2024 — Sep 13, 2024
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What awaits you at the top of the mountain? What transcendence arrives after the months of training and preparation? What are we climbing towards, and why are we in such a hurry to get there?
The Future Perfect® is an exhibition about looking forward. It is about the ambition and perseverance of artists and explorers alike, their determination to overcome obstacles and challenges, and live forever in pursuit of their dreams. To move forwards is to move forwards from somewhere, and this solo exhibition of Ben Edmunds marks a big step forwards in his painting practice.
Overall, Edmunds’ work can be characterised by an unusual combination of colour field abstraction and adventure sports equipment. Created by layering thin mists of fabric dye, the colour-rich canvases are stained and relate to modernists such as Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland. But sculptural and in graphic design interventions bring the works firmly into the present moment, the paint…
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The Future Perfect®
L21 Gallery•Jun 27, 2024 — Sep 13, 2024
Press Release
What awaits you at the top of the mountain? What transcendence arrives after the months of training and preparation? What are we climbing towards, and why are we in such a hurry to get there?
The Future Perfect® is an exhibition about looking forward. It is about the ambition and perseverance of artists and explorers alike, their determination to overcome obstacles and challenges, and live forever in pursuit of their dreams. To move forwards is to move forwards from somewhere, and this solo exhibition of Ben Edmunds marks a big step forwards in his painting practice.
Overall, Edmunds’ work can be characterised by an unusual combination of colour field abstraction and adventure sports equipment. Created by layering thin mists of fabric dye, the colour-rich canvases are stained and relate to modernists such as Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland. But sculptural and in graphic design interventions bring the works firmly into the present moment, the paint…
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