John HENDERSON

re-er

solo show

September 1, 2017 - November 11, 2017

hong kong

50 CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, 17TH FLOOR - HONG KONG

artist info

press release

103 people attended the opening.
2 132 people attended the exhibition.
The exhibition was open for 44 days.
Daily average 48 visitors per day including opening, 47 per day excluding opening.

Following exhibitions in Hong Kong, New York, and Paris, Perrotin is delighted to present John Henderson’s second solo show in Hong Kong. John Henderson’s oeuvre has long revolved around the problematic of modernism, abstraction, and the painterly gesture. In this sense, he could possibly be situated in the context of a larger wave of process-based abstraction in recent years, one that is marked by the flatness of the picture plane, a preoccupation with process, and improvised gestures indexing the real. As the critic David Geers has argued, this trend is “in equal parts, a generational fatigue with theory; a growing split between hand-made artistic production and social practice; and a legitimate and thrifty attempt to ‘keep it real’ in the face of an ever-expansive image culture and slick ‘commodity art’.” […] Daniel Szehin Ho

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