Tim Kent: Histories in Flux
Past exhibition
Overview
Displayed on the ground floor of the gallery, Histories in Flux will showcase a new series of oil paintings by the acclaimed painter Tim Kent. The 12 paintings due to be exhibited at JD Malat Gallery are reflections of – as the artist puts it – "playing with art history". Fragmented, yet visually consistent compositions of vast interiors, sculptures, historical figures and classical nudes blur, disconnect, and reshape in front of the viewer's eyes to critically engage with the systemic power structures that the canon of Western art history fortified but contemporary art must continuously dismantle.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an online catalogue with an essay written by sculptor and writer William Corwin. Corwin comments: "Histories in Flux continues the painter’s trajectory of creating works which are both anarchic—in that they present a political viewpoint that is basically across-the-board skeptical, trusting no one—and also question the very structure through which we view space and imagery."
Histories in Flux will be Kent's second solo exhibition in London, and is particiluarly pertinent to the current and hotly contested debates around the volatily of the art world as a whole. The exhibition seeks to prompt us to interrogate the autonomous role of art within an art cosmos underlined by performativity, as well as highlight the power relations that trigger changes in aesthetic perception, the value of judgements and ways of seeing.
Works
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Tim Kent, Procession, 2024 Sold
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Tim Kent, Archive II, 2023
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Tim Kent, Muniments II, 2023
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Tim Kent, Menagerie, 2024
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Tim Kent, By Careful Design, 2024
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Tim Kent, Muniments I, 2023 Sold
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Tim Kent, Inclinations, 2024
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Tim Kent, Arts Work , 2024 Sold
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Tim Kent, Past Again and Again, 2024
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Tim Kent, Odalisque, 2023 Sold
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Tim Kent, The Lacquered Screen , 2024
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Tim Kent, The Reproduction's Gaze, 2024
Installation Views
Press
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ArtReview: Tim Kent’s Painterly Assault on History
Alex Estorick , ArtReview , July 9, 2024 -
Art Review: Tim Kent Histories in Flux
Printed EditionAlex Estorick, ArtReview -
FETCH MAGAZINE: "YOU DON'T REBUILD HISTORY, YOU MODIFY IT": TIM KENT'S 'HISTORIES IN FLUX' AT JD MALAT GALLERY
Joanna Metodieva , Fetch Magazine, May 14, 2024 -
Mayfair Times: Tim Kent's 'Histories in Flux' on view at JD Malat Gallery
Will Moffitt, Mayfair Times, May 8, 2024
Videos