Studio view George Rouy, 2024 © George Rouy. Courtesy the artist and Hannah Barry Gallery. Photo: Damian Griffiths
On the occasion of the exhibition ‘George Rouy. The Bleed, Part I,’ join us for an exhibition tour and Q&A discussion with the artist at Hauser & Wirth London.
This event is an opportunity for art students and young people interested in art to meet with artist George Rouy and explore his debut solo exhibition at our London gallery. This discursive and interactive evening will explore the representation of the human form in painting and give insights into the artist’s working practice.
Students are encouraged to submit questions to the artist in advance, and bring examples of how they have approached the representation of the human body in their own work for discussion with the artist.
Schedule
6 – 6.20 pm: Arrival and welcome drinks
6.20 – 6.30 pm: Introduction with the Hauser & Wirth Learning team
6.30 – 7.15 pm: Exhibition walkthrough with George Rouy
7.15 – 7.30 pm: Q&A session
This is a free event but advance booking is required. You can submit your questions when booking your ticket. This event is designed for students and young people only. Please note that student ID will be required to attend this event.
About George Rouy
Focused on the relationship between interior landscapes and the body in motion, British artist George Rouy’s work presents us with a new language confronting the human body with bold and subversive energy, transformation and flux.
His work shifts fluidly from unified, ambient subjects—made strange and alluring through sparse yet potent symbolism—to dreamy, emotive worlds of androgynous gestural forms. Lurid bursts of pigment and abstract passages charge these figures with intensity, evoking recurring themes: the face as a mask, the individual as a mirror, and the self as a shadow.
Rouy’s paintings blur the line between the internal and external, creating a singular, immersive experience of a singular figure. They exist in a constant state of flux—moving in and out of space, place and time, blending past, present and the phantom. Moreover, his work erases the distinctions between body and mind, making the familiar feel both distant and intimate.
About ‘George Rouy. The Bleed, Part I’
Emerging as a leading figure of the new generation of painters, George Rouy’s debut solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, ‘The Bleed, Part I’ will feature a new body of work continuing his inquiry into collective mass, multiplicities and movement, and human modes of existence. The second chapter, ‘The Bleed, Part II,’ will follow at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles in February 2025.
Rouy’s dynamic and signature use of the human figure, vexed with desire, alienation and crisis, speaks to the emotional extremities of our time, resulting in explorations of identity in a globalized, technologically driven 21st Century.
The exhibition is on view through Saturday 21 December 2024.
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Photographs will be taken at this event for use on the Hauser & Wirth website, social media and in other marketing materials.
