First Solo Exhibition of Works by London-Based Artist, Djordje Ozbolt, at Hauser & Wirth

ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth Zurich presents its first solo exhibition of works by London-based artist, Djordje Ozbolt. The exhibition will feature a selection of Ozbolt’s large and small-scale paintings replete with intricate detail and satirical humour. Works such as ‘Postcolonial Discourse’, which portrays a Delft bowl heaped with raw meat balanced on the head of an African sculpture in a tropical yet gloomy landscape, raise questions surrounding culture, colonialism and identity. Meanwhile ‘The Madness of Comrade Lenin’ shows a traditional portrait of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin painted with a muted palette. In contrast to the serious expression and gravitas of Lenin, a Communist flag and an acid-house smiley-face are super-imposed on to the subject’s pupils. Both canvasses are exemplary of Ozbolt’s witty and unconventional approach, which results in collage-like images. In his wo

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