Frieze 91 members are invited to be the first to see new works by Rhys Coren. This new solo exhibition in June 2023 succeeds a recent venture into furniture design - marked by working with marble and stoneware. You may have seen his latest body of work at Seventeen’s booth at Frieze London 2022 or his impressive, recent public commission permanently installed on the Medici Courtyard in Mayfair – the new street connecting Hannover Square and Bond St – an impressive 9-meter long, 3-meter high mural made from terrazzo marble.
Meet the artist in his studio over drinks to celebrate his exciting year ahead!
Rhys Coren works across animation, writing, performance, and painted marquetry; each media displays an obvious pleasure in rhythm, form, color and texture, space and negative space. The wall works contain cartoon-like clouds broken by grids of color and texture, raking perspectives, drop shadows, and the interplay of frenetic lines. Coren describes the direct link between his experience of music and the visual language of his practice, crediting the structure and strategies found in electronic dance music, jazz, and disco as the genesis of the works.
Recent commissions include a permanent public installation in Mayfair, a collaboration with Umbro, and a moving image work as part of Lumiere London in the Royal Academy Courtyard. He also curated the group exhibition Cuts, Shapes, Breaks, and Scrapes at Seventeen, London alongside Gabriel Hartley and he has co-founded curatorial projects including Opening Times and bubblebyte.org.
Rhys Coren (b. 1983, Plymouth, UK) completed a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy of Art in 2016 and lives and works in London.
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