After a break from painting, Mafalda von Hessen returned to the easel to paint her artist partner’s varied collection of vintage chairs. Far from taking a back seat, fantasy and figuration figure foremost as a mode of expression in these domestic still lives...
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What unifies von Hessen’s works is the overarching theme of ‘the great indoors.’ Despite the ostensible simplicity of the subject matter, her depictions of familiar realities encourage the audience to pause and contemplate the poetics of the everyday. The practice of reimagining an interior space establishes a series of dichotomies: the fragment and the whole, the ephemeral and the permanent, the mundane and the new, introspection and active curiosity...
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It was a Wednesday evening at JGM Gallery in Battersea, although one could have mistaken it for a Saturday night in the infamous Dracula nightclub as the St Moritz crowd streamed in to celebrate artist Mafalda von Hessen's exhibition. Dracs owner Rolf Sachs was the first to arrive for the private view of Looking In - Mafalda's first show in London - followed by Irma Camperio Ciani Roder (with her dachshund, Membo, in tow)...
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