Gentle Doom:
Filip Lav
June 1st - June 29th, 2023
A solo exhibition featuring 12 works from Filip Lav.
Filip Lav (b. 1991) lives and works between London and Vienna. Filip Lav’s paintings are embodied contradictions, a paradox consisting of equal amounts of irony and sincerity.
The figures are frequently painted flat, while their backgrounds are highly layered. In this way, his painting process is a performative paradox, where one can encounter various displacements of speed and slowness, planning, and spontaneity.
Nothing is what it appears at first glance. The gestural drawings are highly choreographed, while the bold brushstrokes are carefully multi-layered surfaces.
Filip Lav
An American Prayer, 2023.
Oil, acrylic, pastel, glue, lead on four stretchers of linen and burlap, 126 x 85 in (320 x 215 cm).
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Filip Lav
Details of An American Prayer, 2023.
Oil, acrylic, pastel, glue, lead on four stretchers of linen and burlap, 126 x 85 in (320 x 215 cm).
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Filip Lav
Doomer, 2021.
Oil, acrylic, charcoal on canvas, metal, magnets.
78 x 64 in (200 x 163 cm).
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Filip Lav
Diver, 2022.
Oil, acrylic, pastel on canvas, 78 x 73 in (200 x 185 cm).
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Filip Lav
RocketBoy_Icarus, 2023.
Oil, pastel on five frames of linen and canvas, 114 x 88 in (290 x 225 cm).
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Filip Lav
Ginko, 2022.
Oil on linen, 28 x 24 in (72 x 62 cm).
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Filip Lav
Venus, 2022.
Oil, acrylic, pastel on canvas, 78 x 73 in (200 x 185 cm).
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Filip Lav
Legacy of Cain, 2021.
Charred limewood, cathedral glass, Panton chair 1960s, carpet, pyrite stones, metal, wire, 126 x 275 x 63 in (320 x 700 x 160 cm).
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Filip Lav
Details of Legacy of Cain, 2021.
Charred limewood, cathedral glass, Panton chair 1960s, carpet, pyrite stones, metal, wire, 126 x 275 x 63 in (320 x 700 x 160 cm).
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Filip Lav
The Passionate Pilgrim, 2022.
Oil, acrylic, pastel on canvas, 78 x 73 in (200 x 185 cm).
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Filip Lav
VOINA (War), 2021.
Oil on canvas, metal, magnets, 78 x 66 in (200 x 167 cm).
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Filip Lav
MA, 2022.
Oil, acrylic, pastel on canvas, 78 x 73 in (200 x 185 cm).
