A PORTRAIT OF A FAT MAN FOR DÜSSELDORF

A Portrait of a Fat Man for Düsseldorf is an exhibition by Oliver Osborne showing two paintings from the past two years. One figurative, one abstract, the two paintings share an attempt to understand how memory, looking and the slippery effect of digital life impress upon an analogue medium. Painting itself remains the artist’s primary subject; its function as a language and its behaviour as a discipline. Through this investigation a project is beginning to emerge which pits the impact screens have had on how we see against the historical grammar of painting.