GENIEVE FIGGIS – IMMORTAL REFLECTION
2021-11-08Figgis presents the history of painting as an ongoing conversation, reworking, reimagining and re-contextualising the content and composition of historic works in a very personal way. Rococo painters such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher are recurrent visual references. She creates what she describes as “cover versions” of their work. There is a clear delight in the artist’s process of recreating the narratives, fashion, interiors and characters in her source paintings. Yet like a new version of a play or a film, Figgis imbues these painted scenes with her own personality. Everyone version becomes a unique take on the original, with its own sense of meaning. The artist gets to insert herself within the work and take part,
rather than observe from a distance. She gets to step inside the world that fascinates her, and takes the viewer with her
Opposite – Reflection, 2021
Exhibition runs through to December 11th, 2021
Almine Rech
39 East 78th Street
NY 10075
New York
