BRIAN CALVIN – LOITERING
2025-07-21The title of the exhibition, with its Baudelairean overtones, is also, in some respects, a red herring. Perhaps it refers to these painted figures that linger together. And perhaps visitors to art galleries in large urban centres are the new flâneurs, who would occupy a prominent place in an updated version of Tableaux Parisiens. But above all, the title has to do with the artist’s own experience in his confrontation with these faces. ‘I’ve spent half, or at least a good part of my life sitting here in my studio, wandering in the company of a painting,’ explains the painter, who tells stories of excitement when something happens on the canvas, but also of slowness and calm.
Opposite – Early Riser, 2025
Exhibition runs through to August 30th, 2025
Almine Rech
Bahnhofstrasse 1
3780 Gstaad
Switzerland
