Angel and Dog, 2021.
MARCO VILLARD
ANGELS
and people are still walking by my window, and
now it’s noon, or maybe 1 in the afternoon,
and I’m still breathing,
And
sometimes they call them angels and
sometimes
I call them angels
and I hope it makes sense for them because
it doesn’t make sense for me.
I love them yet it makes it worse sometimes,
but I’m here thinking about it and sometimes
the strong wind makes it better.
Marco Villard
We are very pleased to announce the forthcoming show ‘Angels’ by Marco Villard (b.1992, lives and works NYC), following solo and group exhibitions in Athens and Los Angeles with Alkinois Gallery and Lobster Club, respectively. This will be Villard’s first UK exhibition.
Marco Villard was born In America 1992, and raised in France with French and Spanish heritage. His large-scale, gestural paintings often feature the ciphers and archetypes that emerge from dreams and inherited stories. The ‘Angels’ paintings on view are part of a cycle of work produced shortly after a sudden bereavement, following compositional sketches and revisions on paper. These large, unstretched canvases present a deft and delightful immediacy, and convey an entrancingly hypnagogic narrative with their cast of angels and spirit animals.
Hanging Garden, 2021. Oil sticks & acrylic on cotton canvas 93" x 71".
“Marco Villard’s practice spans several mediums such as painting, filmmaking, performance and poetry. His work is firmly rooted in symbolism and evokes a meaningful sense of play. Paintings often portray nonsensical figures and animals, accompanied by a rich contrasting colour palette, a defining feature of Villard's work and stylistic choice that is uniquely informed by his colourblindness. Villard's oeuvre gives way to a compromise between free-flowing constitutions and art historical structures. Villard’s work exists outside the bounds of our contemporary technological society, utilizing mythical forms, overstated compositions, and humanist themes to create new dimensions, allowing viewers to gain from the intimately conveyed motifs of shared human experiences, such as childhood, loneliness, birth, and death.”
Victoria McClure
Preview 8th March, 18:00 - 18:00
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Thursday & Friday 10:00 - 18:00
Saturday 10:00 - 18:00
By Appointment on other occasions.