- Venue
- Blacks Club
- Starts
- Monday, October 10, 2011
- Ends
- Thursday, November 10, 2011
- Address
- 67 Dean Street Soho W1D 4QH
- Location
- London
This is the debut solo exhibition by Dutch painter, Sara Le Roy, at Blacks Club, London, titled Unveiling, which will also show her specially commissioned painting, St. Sebastian, 2011. Sara Le Roy was born in The Hague, Holland. She lives and works in London. Her oil paintings mix classic with contemporary iconography and unveil the magic and illusion of life. Be it vanitas still-life or, morbid and explicitly figurative, Le Roy’s paintings have allusions to the genre of memento mori, depicting elements of death and decay such as, dead animals, rotten fruits, and skulls. They also allude to magic with the use of symbols like the veil and the rabbit. At times, Le Roy combines in an ambiguous way, the fearful living with the fearsome dead. Death symbols are either attached or carried by the portrayed who has no fear of death; rather, she stands as reminder of our mortality. Curated by Gabriella Daris
