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Tracing a line through the aesthetic of painterly abstraction from the 1960s to the present day, Simon Lee Gallery’s presentation at Frieze London juxtaposes work by Hans Hartung, Christopher Wool, Jeff Elrod and Eric N. Mack. Built upon experimental conceptual and material innovations, the practice of each of these artists strives for a continual revival of the medium of painting, offering a gestural freedom and sense of personal expression that operates within the history of abstraction, while at the same time proposing new perspectives on a mode of art making often considered obsolete. …