ROBERT MONTGOMERY
2017-10-30Hammersmith Poem and Love Letters to Kazimir Malevich is a major exhibition of new paintings and light works by Robert Montgomery. In a bold return to painting, these works galvanise Montgomery’s recent artistic objective that calls for a political and aesthetic re-invigoration of the “Modernist Dream”. The exhibition is presented in partnership with JOSEPH and extends to their space on Savile Row.
Montgomery distills a unique mysticism in his works that communicates wider social messaging- bridging a gap between a search for genuine spiritual feeling and an updated ‘Beuysian’ conceptual art practice of social sculpture. His poetic voice seeks to connect the audience directly to political, social and ecological priorities as a result of their interaction with his work.
For the exhibition, Montgomery has deepened a dialogue with early Modernism in a series of paintings that set his texts overlaid on the composition structures or “ghost outlines” of a number of Malevich paintings. Motifs of the Suprematist movement appear as laid foundations to Montgomery’s poetical cautions on political, social, and ecological concerns of 21st Century society.
Opposite – Hammersmith Poem/Malevich Painting (And The Screens That Circle You Like Butterflies Now), 2017
Exhibition runs through to November 25th, 2017
Cob Gallery
205 Royal College Street
London
NW1 0SG
