The artwork features a minimalist composition, with the word "DOCENT" prominently displayed in a bold, stylized font against a plain white background. The use of a single word as the central focus, along with the high-contrast, monochromatic palette, suggests a conceptual or typographic approach. The artwork's style and technique evoke a sense of simplicity, clarity, and directness, which may reflect the artist's intention to convey a specific idea or prompt the viewer to consider the meaning and significance of the word "DOCENT" within the context of contemporary art. ...
Abel Auer is a German artist whose colourful paintings trace across overlapping timelines of the present day and Modernity. The oriental aesthetics of his bright sceneries show the artist’s admiration of historical artistic movements. The artist brings the concerns of the Romanticists and the Symbolists to the forefront of artistic discourse following the conceptual dead-ends of Post-modernism. His works cherish the memory of decadence, filled with anarchic spirit, battling with and for beauty. Auer's quiet, almost magical settings depict mountains and trees, infinite horizons and burning skylights, hidden eyes and blending faces. His works are provocative in their art-historical rupture and in their airy brightness. ...
Corvi-Mora is a contemporary art gallery based in Kennington, South London. The gallery currently represents over 30 artists, including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Alvaro Barrington, Jennifer Packer, Brian Calvin, Tomoaki Suzuki and established international artists such as Turner Prize nominees Roger Hiorns and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Corvi-Mora was founded by Tommaso Corvi-Mora in 2000 at premises in London's Warren Street after the closure of the gallery Robert Prime which he founded in partnership with Gregorio Magnani in 1995. Corvi-Mora moved to a space on Kempsford Road in 2004 with the contemporary art gallery greengrassi. Notable exhibitions include Sorrow for A Cipher by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in 2016, Roger Hiorns in 2004 and 2015, The Commune Itself Becomes a Super State by Liam Gillick in 2007, Rachel Feinstein in 2007, and Richard Hawkins in 2009. ...
