There’s a kind of a distortion that happens with adoration. — John Currin

In a series of new portraits, Currin returns to his most beloved subject: women. These latest paintings demonstrate some persistent themes in Currin’s oeuvre, as well as a deep exploration of the genre of female portraiture. Characteristically, these women often appear as half-real, half-imagined, as though only part of the artist’s subject were held up to a distorting mirror, with the rest left intact.

John Currin was born in 1962 in Boulder, Colorado, and lives and works in New York.

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有一種扭曲以令人喜愛的方式發生。— 約翰．柯林(John Currin)

在柯林的新肖像畫作中，他回歸自己最喜愛的主題：女性。畫作展現他經常採用的主題，也深入探索女性肖像畫的體裁。以特徵而言，這些女性看似半真、半虛構，彷彿畫中人只有一部分置於扭曲的鏡子前，其餘部分則正常無礙。

JOHN CURRIN 約翰．柯林
Exhibition Dates: November 26, 2019 – February 29, 2020
Opening Reception: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 from 6pm – 8pm
開幕酒會：11月26日（星期二）晚間6時至8時
2019年11月26日至2020年2月29日

Gagosian Hong Kong
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