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Bernard Piffaretti: Painting & Caption: Works from the 1980s and 90s
Kate MacGarry27 Old Nichol Street
Until 14 Nov · Free
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Kate MacGarry is pleased to present Bernard Piffaretti's third solo show at the gallery. Bernard Piffaretti was born in 1955 in Saint-Etienne, France and lives and works in Paris. Since 1986 Piffaretti has committed his practice to the ‘duplication method’, abstract paintings that appear to be two identical halves split through the vertical axis. Closer inspection reveals moments of differentiation: the inclination of the brushstrokes, the number of drips, the weight of the hue. “The duplication clouds the origin of the time of the work.
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