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For the 2014 edition of the DC Open, CHOI&LAGER Galerie presents five UK artists whose painting works have gathered acclaim for utilizing unique processes and materials.

Riffing on the quintessentially-British first names of the selected artists, Jack, Neil, Gareth, Shane and Matthew has been conceived in the tradition of the Pop “Boyband”. Like shrewd music producers cherry-picking potential stars from a pool of young pretenders, the show’s curators have plucked these five talents from London’s art scene and reassembled them as a super group; five radically different sets of concerns and …