Flowers Gallery presents Ken Currie’s “Rictus” at its London venue.The exhibition entitled “Rictus” by Ken Curries depicts the figure transformed by acts of unseen violence or engaged in mysterious medical procedures. The nightmarish painting “Krankenhaus” portrays ailing subjects treated with arcane medical instruments in a makeshift surgery, uncannily juxtaposing paraphernalia from the abattoir and misplaced players from a military band. The theme of disfigurement continues in the painting “Rictus” from which the exhibition takes its title, and which relates to a fixed grimace or grin. Currie’s rich, luminous paintings address the tragic themes of modernity, balancing the opposing imagery of mechanized destruction and degradation with the generative, creative potential of the human body. Ken Currie (b.1960) studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1978 to 1983. Known as one of New Glasgow Boys along with Peter Howson, Adrian Wisniewski, and the late Steven Campbell who studied together at Glasgow School of Art, Currie’s notable public works include a mural commissioned by Glasgow Museums to mark the bicentenary of Calton Weavers Massacre, which is displayed in the dome of People’s Palace, Glasgow; and a portrait of eminent medical scientists Professor R. J. Steele, Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri, and Professor Sir David P. Lane, in Three Oncologists, which was initiated by National Galleries of Scotland.The exhibition is on view through December 9, 2017 at Flowers Gallery, 21 Cork Street, London W1S 3LZ.For details, visit: www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/flowers-gallery/overview Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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