PIERS GREVILLE: BREAKFAST AT BERGHIAN
2025年11月13日 - 12月14日
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Opening Thursday 13 November, from 6 pm

 

MAGMA GALLERIES

5 BEDFORD ST, COLLINGWOOD

 

Carrying momentum from Piers Greville's recent exhibition Entropic Baroque, this newly developed body of work, Breakfast at Berghain, responds to glimmers of optimism in the tumult. The exhibition's title paraphrases a Baxter Dury lyric, alluding to Berlin’s Berghain nightclub and evoking a very particular feeling – a collective cathartic moment; a dawning as tumult turns to calm, but chaos still lingers.

In these new works, Greville holds tension between sublime aesthetics and the politics of survival. The sky becomes a landscape, loaded with picturesque emotional and political values. Compelled to evoke clouds, borrowed and combined from photographs, he excavates their history as a device in paintings from the baroque to the romantic. Here the cloud serves as the central emotion, and at the same time a meteorological presence – a microcosm of climate.

 

 

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