Keith Talent is pleased to present Baroque Reason, an exhibition about complexity, pattern and ornament in abstract art. Baroque Reason brings together a group of artists whose individual approaches combine through an aesthetic and expressive drive which is very sympathetic to the elaborate and intricate qualities of Baroque art and architecture.
In this instance a contemporary baroque is presented as an open proposal, an attitude rather than a style. This is a neo-baroque reflecting the dynamics of hybridity and difference. These artists celebrate the dazzling, the disorientating, and revel in baroque’s fascination with opacity, unreadability and the indecipherability of the reality they depict. This collection of paintings present a conception of reality in which the instability of forms in movement creates a duality; an enchanted illusion and a disenchanted world. The title of the exhibition is taken from the French philosopher Christine Buci-Glucksmann’s book on the aesthetics of modernity. Buci-Glucksmann claims “If one had to single out a scopic regime that has finally come into its own in our time, it would be the madness of vision identified with the baroque”.
Baroque Reason is kindly supported by the Arts Council of England.
