Asger Dybvad Larsen, Li Gang: The Window Project

Rolando Anselmi is pleased to announce Asger Dybvad Larsen and Li Gang’s duo exhibition in the Berlin gallery, conceived and created as a ‘window project’, a new exhibition format visible from the street. The works by the two artists analyze the medium of painting beyond its specifics, reflecting the drifts of pictorial elements on the edge of their own definitions. Li Gang's pieces, for example, approach a state which verges on the sculptural: the thick, handmade canvases of his pictorial cycle, made of interwoven ropes and covered with an overabundance of paint, push materiality and color to the extreme. Li Gang takes pre-existing raw elements and reworks them into new shapes and volumes, giving the impression of zoomed details of unrecognizable subjects. The intrinsic tension in his works stems from the contrasts between opposing materials, combined in a dialectical way: the synthetic and the organic, the mundane and the sublime. Asger Dybvad Larsen’s body of works, reflect the genesis of its creation process, investigating the pictorial medium in its internal dynamics, in a constant dialogue with themes and traditions of art history. Drawing in particular on post-war minimalist and conceptual strategies, Larsen’s works are characterized by the use of geometric shapes, obtained from cut-outs of canvas progressively sewn together, an element that distinguishes Larsen’s practice. Form, composition, repetition and materiality are the immediate physical factors that assert the autonomy of these works, which communicate their internal logic.