Portrait of George Rouy. Photo: Kingsley Ifill; Portrait of Whitney Mallett. Photo: Jeannie Sui Wonders
Artist Walkthrough: George Rouy & writer Whitney Mallett on ‘George Rouy. REPRISE’
Celebrating the opening weekend of ‘George Rouy. REPRISE,’ the artist’s first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York, please join us for a walkthrough with artist George Rouy and the founder and editor-in-chief of The Whitney Review, Whitney Mallett.
‘REPRISE,’ the latest body of work by London-based artist George Rouy, is the subject of a pair of sequential exhibitions—at Hannah Barry Gallery (4 June – 12 September) and at Hauser & Wirth New York (10 September – 24 October)– that spotlight the artist’s ongoing, helictical exploration of the human body in states of transformation, reconstruction and becoming.
This event is free, however, reservations are recommended.
George Rouy in his studio. Photo. Kingsley Ifill.
About George Rouy
George Rouy is recognized as a leading figure in a new generation of international artists. His dynamic and signature use of the human figure, vexed with desire, freedom, alienation and crisis, speaks to the extremities of our time. Bodies - captured alone, gathered in quiet groups, or imprisoned in crowds of amorphous energy - move from absorption and poise to expansive forces of incitement and charge.
Together they present rhapsodic explorations of mass, movement and identity in a globalized and technologically driven 21st century, alluding to recurring themes of figure and phantom, landscape and anatomy, faces and masks. This bold and subversive corporeal language captures the grave beauty and perpetual transformation of our contemporary moment. Articulating a vocabulary of painting as distinctive as it is visceral, Rouy’s works are defined by contradictions: stasis and flow, precision and indeterminacy, chaos and harmony.
About Whitney Mallett
Whitney Mallett is an author and publisher focused on dialogues and intersections of printed matter, performance, art, and design. In 2023, she founded The Whitney Review of New Writing, a biannual magazine devoted to literary criticism and experimental forms of review. She is the co-editor of Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey (PIN–UP/Mattel, 2022), a 60-year survey of domestic design ideology. Mallett has organized and participated in public programs at institutions including Performance Space New York, Performa Biennial, the Swiss Institute, MoMA PS1, the New Museum’s NEW INC., the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and the International Library for Fashion Research.
