‘ONE STEP BACK’
A SOLO EXHIBITION BY GAVIN RAIN
Gavin Rain studied Art and Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town and started developing his pointillist style. His work is influenced by Seurat, Russian avant garde art of the early 1900s and a broad range of architects – he planned to study architecture at an earlier stage of his life and tried to marry his two interests: art and mathematics.
Up close, Rain’s paintings consist of small concentric circles painted in different colours of acrylic paint. From a distance, in the viewer’s eye these colours merge together into one. The further the viewer steps back, the more clear the portrait becomes. The artist’s objective is to broaden people’s visual and cognitive horizons by showing them the fantastic and impossible. His art is a clear invitation to take ‘One Step Back’, to create some distance in life as well since the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Gavin Rain lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa and his work has been exhibited in both the 54th and the 55th edition of the Venice Biennale.
‘One Step Back’ gives a profound overview of Gavin Rain’s oeuvre, presenting over 15 unique works in the Amsterdam location at Prinsengracht 570.
With the official opening on Thursday January 24
and running until Sunday March 3,
SmithDavidson Gallery presents the artist’s first solo exhibition in Amsterdam in 5 years.