PRESS RELEASE
‘Playing and Reality’ at von Racknitz & Bär Gallery, Berlin
01.03 — 30.06.2025
What Arthur Laidlaw and Dan Rees attempt to articulate in their own ways is the self-negating nature of images. They do so through an engagement with the mechanical processes familiar to analogue photography; the results are an unexpected and unrepeatable series of nuanced and seductively ‘painted’ surfaces.
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All images courtesy of VRB Gallery & the artists
Shutter 4, Shutter 5, Shutter 3
All works gouache and acrylic on hessian
Individually measured at 140 × 200 cm
All works produced in 2024
Raiders 2
Gouache and acrylic on hessian
140 x 170 cm
2024
Villa Torre
Gouache, acrylic, and oil on linen
140 x 200 cm
2022
Palm 8
Watercolour, coloured pencil, charcoal, and oil on canvas stretched over board
25 x 30 cm
2023