Almine Rech Gstaad is pleased to present 'Loitering', Brian Calvin's ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from July 12 to August 30, 2025.
In the long list of writings about painting, there are few phrases as clever and catchy as the one coined by Maurice Denis in 1890. Nowadays, as we stand at the other end of the long and turbulent history of artistic modernity, it deserves to be slightly reformulated in order to align with our customs. But once this has been done, it turns out that it remains strikingly relevant to Brian Calvin's painting. Before being representations of young socialite women, influencers attempting product placement, or generational emblems of an overconnected present, his paintings are first and foremost flat surfaces covered with colours assembled in a certain order. In these gatherings of well-groomed faces, cropped to varying degrees depending on the painting, we seem to recognise an analogy of digital communities. We seem to recognise a pop image from everyday life in a soda can, a T-shirt, or a pair of oversized glasses. But these are red herrings. Brian Calvin likes to emphasise the constructed dimension of images, breaking with the internal logic of painting. And that is the primary purpose of the soda cans, glasses, T-shirts, lipsticks (whose shade and brand we could probably identify), and all the images incorporated into the composition in the form of visual micro-events. Rather than relating the painting to the outside world (Western, industrialised, connected), they open a breach in representation. 'When you work with images, that's people's starting point. It's really hard to look at faces nowadays, especially when they're cropped, and not think about image overload or social media. This interpretation is often applied to my work, and I don't think it's wrong. But it's simply not my starting point; in fact, it's the part of my work that puzzles me the most ,' explains the painter, who is more likely to cite the "icy quality" of Piero della Francesca's paintings as a source of inspiration than the great American pop tradition.

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Time:	2025年7月12日–8月30日 (UTC+1)
Location:	Almine Rech Gstaad, Bahnhofstrasse

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