Edouard NG

Alberto

November 11th, 2023 - January 14th, 2024


Le Maximum is pleased to announce our exhibition Alberto by Edouard NG. The exhibition will run from Saturday, November 11th to Saturday, December 16th. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, November 11th from 6 - 9 pm.

Alberto comprises four paintings, a short film titled RRR, and various found objects. NG sprays automotive paint onto acetate sheets roughly the size of a portal, then applies gestural marks in oil. The resulting images are abstract yet derived from everyday life; they mirror our gaze, while alluding to perceptions ranging from a blooming desert plant, the blue of the Amazon truck, or the eye of a hurricane. RRR montages images of nature and the built environment and is accompanied by a soundtrack by Jo “22” Frias. Blades of a yucca merge with the ribs of New York’s Oculus Center and a spinning airforce reactor engine. Opening into the ground are the orifice of a dead plant and the 9/11 memorial in New York. Hypnotic images of technological advance and intimations of civilizational collapse invoke our contradictory present-day realities. 

Edouard NG lives and works in Los Angeles. NG received a Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute, New York. NG’s work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions: The Cave, Le Maximum; For some bags under the eyes, sans titre, Paris; ŒDIPUS ŒDIPUS, New Galerie, Paris; and [Un]Real, DETOUR x NICOLETTI contemporary, New York among others.


For more information about Edouard NG please contact art@lemaximumvenice.com.

Alberto L1. Oil & metallic automotive paint on cast acrylic sheet in walnut frame, 84 x47 inches

Alberto L2. Oil & metallic automotive paint on cast acrylic sheet in walnut frame, 84 x 47 inches

Alberto's K MA, oil on cast acrylic sheet in walnut frame, 12 x 9 inches

Alberto's K MI. Oil & metallic automotive paint on cast acrylic sheet in walnut frame, 12 x 5

Saint Sorlin - 2080. Found postcard, 6 x 4

Still from RRR, video, 6min 19s, 1 AP + 2 editions

Credits:

producer: Matisse Gaillard

composer: Jo « 22 » Frias

editor: Nicola  Ciccarelli

director of photography: Sergey Nikitenko

colorist: Dmitry Litvinov

Documentation by Hannah Mjølsnes