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By invitation of the 1690 Art Collection Space in Shanghai, Galerie Marguo is very pleased to present Come Too Close, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Swiss-Czech artist Manuel Stehli.

Manuel Stehli paints flat compositions of figures, landscapes, and plants in desaturated, dusky tones. Alternating between wide-shots and tightly cropped frames, these subjects seem to linger in an indefinable space with subtle dimensions, reduced to their lowest common denominators of geometric shapes and blocks of pigment. The resulting scenes are meditative, languorous even. Yet upon longer and …