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Marlborough Contemporary is pleased to present True Romance, a solo exhibition of new works from the New York-based artist Grear Patterson, which appropriates its title from the cult 1993 film.

Patterson’s mixed media works present stylised sunsets, alongside auditory and visual recreations of the Tony Scott directed picture. The exhibition explores pop-culture, imagery and processes of perception, recurrent motifs of the artist’s output.

Inspired by the visual vernacular of a sunset as an auspicious moment - simultaneously a romantacised ending and yet a promise of new beginnings – the …