Hauser & Wirth present ‘More paintings about poets and food’, the gallery’s first New York exhibition devoted to internationally admired Belgrade-born, London-based artist Djordje Ozbolt.
Based in London since the mid-1990s, Ozbolt is a voracious traveller and exoticist whose work wistfully ransacks cultures, traditions, curiosities, and epochs. Collapsing the narratives of his paintings and sculptures into solitary images, Ozbolt creates mysterious and often macabre imagery that persistently conflates traditional European genres – of portraiture, still life, landscape, and history painting – with motifs sourced from Christianity, African and Asian art, and cultural stereotypes, all overlaid with the artist’s signature sharp wit.
Comprised of a series of new paintings, sculptures, and drawings, ‘More paintings about poets and food’ will remain on view at Hauser & Wirth’s uptown gallery through 21 February 2015.
When: from 03/02/15 to 21/02/15
Where: Hauser & Wirth New York – 32 E 69th St – New York 10021
