LONDON.- Stuart Shave/Modern Art presents a
solo
exhibition of new work by the British painter Nigel Cooke, Night
Crossing. This
is Cooke’s fourth solo exhibition with Modern Art. Nigel Cooke’s
paintings
construct a dark and melancholic world; a deeply psychologised landscape
filled
with an atmosphere that articulates the trauma of creative dereliction.
At its
core, Cooke’s work is an allegorical conception of creativity and
production,
played out in a world populated by artists and philosophers.
This is a
place haunted by vagrant and degenerate martyrs who have caved-in to a
parody of
existentialism and committed themselves to experience over abstractions
of
thought. These characters abandon reason, willfully and foolishly
throwing
themselves headlong into the unseen and unknown. On view 30
April until
29 May.