Andrew Salgado To Unveil New Work At Three-Day London Exhibition

The small body of work is eponymously titled after Nat King Cole’s ‘Nature Boy’ where the narrator speaks of meeting a mysterious visitor who tells him about love. Salgado was insistent that the show itself – like the ‘accidental’ paintings – should feel transient and temporary, as such, the show will open on a Friday afternoon and close on Sunday evening. Salgado, who typically plays with spectacle and presentation, (including releasing 500 live butterflies at one opening, or installing an artificial beach with 8mm projection of the ocean in another), promises another exciting experience for those in attendance. The show features nine paintings and three works on paper, including his first-ever non-representational works.

The large-scale, gestural paintings of Andrew Salgado explore concepts relating to the destruction and reconstruction of identity – a process that he views as re-considering the conventions of figurative painting through a pursuit toward abstraction. Salgado questions the nature of identity and even the act of painting itself as something monstrous, allegorical, or symbolic. Incorporating Classical archetypes alongside a wildly inventive approach to his chosen media, Salgado’s work de es categorisation. Recent works include collage, mixed-media, and even hand-dyed and hand-stitched linen and canvas. ”I am interested in how my paintings operate independently from their literal, figurative foundation, and how they might deconstruct through colour choices, reduction of forms, and triumph of materiality to become something altogether otherworldly.

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