Bourgeois Spoon | Jonathan Kopinski
August 25 - September 12, 2021
Jan Manton Gallery is proud to present Bourgeois Spoon by Jonathan Kopinski. In line with previous efforts, Kopinski’s latest series of work has been produced without a specific underlying narrative or conceptual arc. This allows for unexpected thematic affinities (i.e. places and issues of societal angst, crisis, politics, idealism) to unconsciously emerge between seemingly unrelated and irrational subject matter, blurring any perceived separation between past, present and future.
Exhibition essay writer Zali Matthews state, ‘Architecture, world politics, economics, the human body and Renaissance art – Kopinski’s interests stretch far and wide. In Bourgeois Spoon, these themes and references are heavily peppered across a series of works painted on canvas boards, arranged by the artist into various polyptychs. Muted colours and simplified compositions dominate, painted alternately with thick, steady layers of paint and explosive streaks of dry colour.’
