Galleria Torbandena presents Recent works, one-man exhibition of the painter Simon Edmondson, born in 1955 in London and now living in Madrid. He is considered one of the more complex and intense artists of the English contemporary figuration.

He has a brilliant curriculum: Edmondson had personal exhibitions in London, New York, Berlin, Madrid, Bilbao, Zürich, and has participated during the last years to the most important international art fairs: Art Basel (Switzerland), Fiac Paris (France), Art Chicago (USA), Arte Fiera Bologna (Italy), and Arco Madrid (Spain).

From the impressive landscapes, with colours recalling the wet english country side, to the intense figures and impacting contemporary views, his pictorial structure, with references to Tiziano and Velázquez, is solved with a tight stroke of brush deeply connected with reality. In this sense the artist's critic conscious appears as a direct descendant of the british visual tradition.

In this new exhibition at Galleria Torbandena, Edmondson presents a series of images with strong contemporary connotations: interiors of theatres remained empty, rooms of abandoned houses, and old cars burned, which acquire a sense of mystery and restlessness through the particular use of light and atmospheres. With the series Red Cardinals, Edmondson faces the human figuration of the english tradition, the tradition of Auerbach and Bacon; the result is metaphoric and alarming.

About twenty works will be exhibited, among them some with a large format and a series of oils on paper.

The Galleria Torbandena has the exclusivity of the artist in Italy.

Opening: November 24, 2006, 6.00 pm

Timetable: Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 1 pm and 4 pm - 8 pm, Sunday and Monday

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