Artists

David Deutsch

Press release

curated by Ugo Rondinone

The main forces of David Deutsch paintings are constraint, solitude, and disintegration. Themes which echo the existentialism in the work of Samuel Beckett, Alberto Giacometti, and Francis Bacon. All four artists are engaged in defining the borders between a theatrical performance of a play, of a sculpture or of a painting and a purely visual representation.

These themes constitute the affinities between the four artists who crafted works in drastically different ways yet shared strikingly similar concerns about the limits of representation and art’s inherent failure to create transcendent meaning.They also embody aesthetic and theoretical affinities that all four artist share: the fragility of human existence. Bodies are no longer a guarantee of a certain consistency of subjective experience; they are instead just as unstable as consciousness itself.