PARIS SHOW NOW OPEN.
In April 1874, the first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris, as artists broke from tradition to host their own show outside the academy.
Now, 150 years on, anonymous artist Listen04 presents "Still Alives" an independent display of new original works inspired by those same complex and prevailing themes.
“I recently went on a trip to the National Gallery in London and came away convinced that I might just be the second coming of Cezanne, or even Van Gogh. Except with two ears and no venereal disease.
What followed was a pilgrimage to Auvers-sur-Oise in France, and me going down an Impressionist rabbit hole. I began to realise that still life painting from this period was made by men, and was pretty much all about their penises, with a large sprinkling of death, childhood trauma and substance abuse.
Luckily these subjects are my speciality, so I started on a new body of work which is presented here in Paris (the home of Impressionism and still life painting) as “Still Alives”.
Vive la nature morte.”
~ Listen04
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