Galleria Duemila presents a solo exhibition of abstract paintings from interdisciplinary artist, Jon Cuyson. SOS is part of an ongoing body of work from the artist who works in the intersection of painting, installation and film.
The exhibition features paintings on shaped canvas and collage works that explore horizontality in relation to abstraction. In the current context of chaos and anxiety, his minimalistic paintings investigate and claim horizontality as a form of resistance to verticality. The artist builds layers of paint and marks on the canvas, repeating and revising in order to build densities in the surface resulting in an interplay of receding and advancing geometric abstract compositions. Consistent with his interest in the narrative of the sea, Jon Cuyson borrows the maritime code distress signal, SOS (Save Our Ship, Save Our Souls), as exhibition title, and to serve as a conceptual anchor in the paintings that reveal a restrained form of poetic urgency.
