Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac held the solo exhibition of David Salle, comprising a series of paintings on canvas and paintings on paper.
David Salle’s practice generally relates to figuration, these new paintings clearly show his long-standing interest in a principle of equivalence, or even reciprocity between images and abstraction, between the motif represented and the means by which it is accomplished.
The artist explores the tacit link that binds our gaze to the image. His visual vocabulary eventually leads to absurd relations and initiate a dynamic, autonomous of any convention.
The process gradually gives elasticity and lightness to the pictorial space until the different layers of our collective consciousness are revealed. The recent paintings are imbued with irony and, as the artist says, “make vivid the strangeness of being alive today”.
David Salle
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac_Paris Marais
Jan 21 - Feb 25, 2017
Above : Lunchtime, 2016
oil, acrylic, flashe, charcoal, oil-stick, fabric and archival digital print mounted on linen
213,4 x 289,6 cm (84 x 114 in)