april 26, 2023 - BEERS London
2 WEEKS remain in Hyangmok Baik's solo ... concurrent solos for BOCKLER & de BONA open this May
HYANGMOK BAIK: WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING_
Exhibition until 6 May 2023
Watch an insider's view of Hyangmok's exhibition and opening
PDF catalogue of works
South Korean artist HYANGMOK BAIK's second solo exhibition at #beerslondon, entitled While You Were Sleeping, follows the rising young star's trajectory following his recent two-person exhibition with Adébayo Bolaji at London's Saatchi Gallery, curated by #beerslondon director Kurt Beers.
The sold out exhibition sees Baik at his most playful, emotive, and technically proficient. Baik's newest collection of work continues his tradition of bold, somewhat crude, almost post-aesthetic contemporary painting, combining flattened perspectives, heavily-worked surfaces, unpredictable colour-schemes, and irreverent subject matter. Paradoxically, the works manage to feel atemporal, acultural, ahistorical, and yet universally relatable. With an acerbic but tender sense of abundance and dark humour, Baik continues to redefine what is rapidly becoming his unique and expanding oeuvre.
Contact the gallery now to register your interest for future work by Hyangmok Baik.
'At times it all feels a bit trippy, a bit macabre... These images are nostalgic: they immediately evoke not just a memory but a reaction, and that's precisely why I allude to them.'
...it's all a dream, Baik tells us. Put your fears aside, kid. Fall asleep. But this time please keep your eyes open for the journey.
SABRINA BOCKLER: MENAGERIE
Preview: Saturday 13 May (1-4pm)
Exhibition: 14 May – 10 June 2023
Watch a short video where Bockler talks about her practice and inspiration
After her inclusion in last year's female-led group exhibition Wonder Women, #beerslondon is elated to host the premier solo exhibition in the UK by Manhattan-based artist, Sabrina Bockler. Bockler's painstakingly detailed works of some latter-day domestic sphere seem to harken from some parallel reality in which everything feels ever-so off-kilter. There are direct references to artists like Balthasar van der Ast or Rachel Ruysch, but Bockler's razor-sharp style and luxurious, wry sense of humor seems to pluck just as readily from David Lynch or some darkly Surrealist version of the Mad Hatter's tea party in Wonderland.
'The surreal and the traditional, the unsettling and the comforting coexist in Bockler's world of rich and warm tones and painstaking details'
_''...reminding us that issues of gender and identity coupled with societal norms have shaped our views and behaviors for many centuries. In Bockler's own words, her practice is a way to "reclaim the narrative of women's contributions to the field of art and to encourage a reexamination of traditional gender assumptions surrounding labor and its division.'_
OLIVIA DE BONA: LE PANACHE
Preview: Saturday 13 May (1-4pm)
Exhibition: 14 May – 10 June 2023
Watch Olivia de Bona talk about her show, LE PANACHE
"I am looking to timeless spaces... in-between places," Paris-based Olivia de Bona says about her debut solo exhibition at #beerslondon: Le Panache. Held concurrently to Sabrina Bockler's solo, the gallery will be split in half to host both artists. Le Panache refers to the subtle transformation of daily life into poetry; where liminal spaces are elevated to shine, or become something of beauty. She credits the bend of a hip, the whisper of an eyelash, or an intimate titillating sensation as some of her sources of inspiration. As viewers, we are privy to this same sense of voyeurism where de Bona's work seems to find comfort and flourish. One can almost smell the heady sensation of incense and the orange warmth of a setting sun or sweating cocktail glass in the heady evening. Surely, her mixed European and Vietnamese heritage plays a role in the formation of her painstakingly carved and inlaid or wooden marquetry works: a sort of Romanticised snapshot or scenario plucked from the literary imagination of Hemingway or Duras, or her Modern predecessors who popularized similar such Bohemian imagery: Mucha, Rosseau, or even the allure of vintage liquor ads.
'She rose up on tiptoe and slowly twirled round, giving [a] comprehensive view... Then she spread out her superb, heavy wings, a polychromatic unfolding fully... an albatross fed to excess on the same diet that makes flamingoes pink.'
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Sabrina Bockler Bouquet 2022 acrylic on linen over panel 152x91cm
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Olivia De Bona La Femma Sacree 2023 gypsum acrylic and straw marquetry on wood 73x60cm
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Olivia de Bona La Mort du Fauteuil 2023 straw marquetery acrylic and pigmented clay on wood 70x63cm
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Olivia De Bona La Poule 2023 acrylic and straw marquetry on wood 73x60cm
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