"The Great Daedala I". Simon Casson. 75" x 94". Oil on canvas. 2007

BEIJING.- Simon Casson’s provocative paintings will be on view at Contrasts Gallery in Beijing from November 25, 2007 – January 7, 2008. The exhibition, titled “The Great Daedala”, will feature ten of the artist’s large-scale works from the past year. An opening reception will be held on November 25th, 2007 from 3 PM – 6 PM. Contrasts Gallery is located at 798 Art District, No. 4 Jiu Xianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 100015.
Simon Casson’s paintings reimagine the Western tradition of figurative painting in a strikingly contemporary context. He melds images from Old Master paintings and life studies with passages of abstract color and gesture. The representational image itself is ruptured by dislocated figures and superimposed images that unpredictably break the painting’s narrative continuity. The effect of these displacements and painterly interruptions is a gorgeous delirium of classical gravitas subverted by a modern sense of fragmentation.
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