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Almine Rech

Alejandro Cardenas OLYMPIA

Dec 21, 2024 — Feb 2, 2025 | Gstaad

Opening on Saturday, December 21, 2024 from 5 to 8 pm.

Almine Rech Gstaad is pleased to present Alejandro Cardenas's sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, OLYMPIA, on view from December 21, 2024 to February 2, 2025.

The exhibition OLYMPIA brings together a suite of artworks that questions the role of painting in context of accelerated image culture. The artist draws from the mutable nature of mythology, though in a very loose way. Instead, we see an unfolding set of narrative works where unreal characters engage and play with fire in pictorial landscape.

Art history is central to Cardenas’ work. The exhibition title brings to mind the work of Manet and Cezanne. His aesthetic and compositional influences range from the oddness of Balthus and Christian Schad, to the stylised approach to form and line in Henry Moore and Robert Matta. Yet, what makes Cardenas of the now is how it also is infused by the forms of car mechanics, post-modernist furniture, Instagram memes, and the shape and structure of insects.

— Francesca Gavin, writer and curator

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Selected artworks

  • Alejandro Cardenas,                                      Pale Blue Dot, 2024

    Alejandro Cardenas Pale Blue Dot, 2024

    Oil on linen
    127 x 101.6 cm
    50 x 40 in