Galerie Envie d'Art
16 Victoria Grove, Kensington
W8
020.7589.8200
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Old Skull, Fred Calmets, 2010
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Opens Thursday Mar 25, 2010
25 Mar 2010 – 30 May 2010
Tuesdays–Sundays
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Tube: High Street Kensington
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Fred Calmets has exhibited his unique pop-culture portraits globally, with audiences responding to the combination of graphical, crisp line-work and expressive colour-field chaos. His new series, Skull and Vanity, retains this stylistic formulation, but with a decidedly Shakespearean twist — presenting the portraiture inclusive of mortality. These deliciously dark acrylic paintings are infused with the Gothic romance of the famous Paris catacombs and evoke a bit of the old "alas, poor Yorick". They remind us of the fancies of the living imagination, as well as the mystery of life's only guarantee — its inevitable end.
