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Oliver Laric at Metro Pictures in New York City

Robert Longo "The Destroyer Cycle" Large charcoal drawings #metropictures #metropicturesgallery #robertlongo #drawing #charcoal #contemporaryart #chelsea #nyc

Oliver Laric at Metro Pictures in New York City

#RobertLongo in front of one of Untitled (Defaced Jewish Cemetery; Strasbourg, France; December 14, 2018), 2019. One of his captivating, monumental charcoal drawings in his “Fugitive Images” exhibit that opened last night @metro_pictures The work is a continuation of his “Destroyer Cycle” series, the focus of the work is imagery generated by the politics of power, greed, aggression and inhumanity. @robert_longo_studio Longo’s drawing of #JamalKhashoggi is central to the exhibition, which includes works depicting a range of world events fr disparate locations. The reference images that are the basis of Longo's drawings are generally extensively altered & merged. His drawing of a Jewish cemetery in France crudely vandalized by Neo-Nazis is an exception. Longo maintains the legibility of the tombstones despite the spray-painted swastikas, which fail to obscure the engraved epitaphs of the people buried there––a widow, a religious man who lived a long life & an honest hardworking man who died on Shabbat. The exhibition ends w a moment of optimism, determination, and progress. Longo's drawing of Congress during President #Trump’s second State of the Union Address immortalizes the female representatives & lawmakers who chose to wear white in solidarity w the suffragette movement by portraying them as a blurred beacon of light within a sea of darkness. * Untitled (Marching Soldiers; (Party Foundation Day) Pyongyang, North Korea; October 10, 2018), 2019. * Untitled (Caravan; Arriaga, Mexico; October 27, 2018), 2019. * Untitled (Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi; Istanbul, Turkey; October 2, 2018), 2019. * Untitled (Russian Air Strike; Syria, 2015), 2017. * Untitled (Statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee Covered; Charlottesville, Virginia; August 12, 2017), 2018. * Untitled (Refugees Moonbird Sighting, Mediterranean Sea; May 5, 2017), 2019. * Untitled (State of the Union; Washington, D.C., USA; February 5, 2019), 2019. #metropictures #contemporaryart #charcoal #artandpolitics #politicalart #photorealism #americanart #artlover #artcollector #artcurator #artadvisor #artadvisory @desti.knee #destineeross & #joakimvonditmar (at Metro Pictures Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B44436vlENB/?igshid=jvrho49ez3fn

ISAAC JULIEN ‘Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass’ @metro_pictures NYC #isaacjulien #metropictures #chelsea #newyork #photography #contemporaryart #film #installation #frederickdouglass (en Metro Pictures Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwF-3TwhTTR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nsouq9n6533h

ISAAC JULIEN ‘Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass’ @metro_pictures NYC #isaacjulien #metropictures #chelsea #newyork #photography #contemporaryart #film #installation #frederickdouglass (en Metro Pictures Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwF-zRLh4yg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ldzgxnpbd1u1

ISAAC JULIEN ‘Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass’ @metro_pictures NYC #isaacjulien #metropictures #chelsea #newyork #photography #contemporaryart #film #installation #frederickdouglass (en Metro Pictures Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwF-qIBh7mE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qboa62lp4nmc

ISAAC JULIEN ‘Lessons of the Hour-Frederick Douglass’ @metro_pictures NYC #isaacjulien #metropictures #chelsea #newyork #photography #contemporaryart #film #installation #frederickdouglass (en Metro Pictures Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwF-iu2BI1D/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10pfel4h1dnrq