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Alex Dordoy
Ruin is Rune, GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US), 6 March - 25 April 2020

Alex Dordoy : Ruin is Rune

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Works
  • Alex Dordoy Arpeggi, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Arpeggi, 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
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  • Alex Dordoy Weird Fishes, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 140 x 200 cm | 55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Weird Fishes, 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    140 x 200 cm | 55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in
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  • Alex Dordoy Eternal Sunshine, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 75 x 50 cm | 29 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Eternal Sunshine, 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    75 x 50 cm | 29 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
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  • Alex Dordoy Regatta, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 125 cm | 78 3/4 x 49 1/4 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Regatta, 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    200 x 125 cm | 78 3/4 x 49 1/4 in
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  • Alex Dordoy 50 Years Over 40 Million (Coral Flame), 2020 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
    Alex Dordoy
    50 Years Over 40 Million (Coral Flame), 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
  • Alex Dordoy 50 Years Over 40 Million (Goldenrod), 2020 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
    Alex Dordoy
    50 Years Over 40 Million (Goldenrod), 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
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  • Alex Dordoy Apocrypha, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 75 x 50 cm | 29 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Apocrypha, 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    75 x 50 cm | 29 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
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  • Alex Dordoy Ruin is Rune, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Ruin is Rune, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in
    Sold
  • Alex Dordoy Silicon Sunset, 2018 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Silicon Sunset, 2018
    Acrylic on canvas
    90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in
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  • Alex Dordoy Golfe du Morbihan (dusk), 2019 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Golfe du Morbihan (dusk), 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in
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  • Alex Dordoy Golfe du Morbihan (dawn), 2019 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Golfe du Morbihan (dawn), 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in
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  • Alex Dordoy Nurture Nature, 2020 Acrylic on canvas 140 x 200 cm | 55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Nurture Nature, 2020
    Acrylic on canvas
    140 x 200 cm | 55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in
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  • Alex Dordoy Nature Nurture, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 140 x 200 cm | 55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in
    Alex Dordoy
    Nature Nurture, 2019
    Acrylic on canvas
    140 x 200 cm | 55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in
Installation Views
  • Alex Dordoy Ruin Is Rune 2020 Installation View 7
  • Alex Dordoy Ruin Is Rune 2020 Installation View 2
  • Alex Dordoy Ruin Is Rune 2020 Installation View 1
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Press
  • Alex Dordoy, Ruin is Rune, GRIMM New York, 2020

    6 great exhibitions with 360° virtual visits

    GalleriesNow, FAD Magazine, April 21, 2020
Press release
Alex Dordoy , Ruin is Rune
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GRIMM is proud to announce Ruin is Rune, Alex Dordoy's (1985, Newcastle, UK) first solo exhibition in New York and his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.  

Presented at GRIMM New York are a new series of paintings by London-based artist Alex Dordoy. The title of the exhibition, Ruin is Rune, references ruins as a symbol of impermanence and an allegory for the fragile balance between humans and nature. The artist's paintings-ethereal and austere with an intimate focus on their subject matter- are digitally edited so that their source material takes on new symbolic meaning. Multiple renderings of a single image suggest the passage of time; as light and color change, playing poetically across the surface of forms, the feeling is one of unnatural stillness.

Landscape is an important component in Dordoy's paintings; it conveys themes of adventure, exoticism, nostalgia, and desire. However, these motifs are tinged with an ominous sensibility-as if we are presented with the remainders of a past from which we have been completely erased. The figure is conspicuously absent in each painting and instead swathes of color gradients occupy the canvas. This absence both beckons the viewer to picture themselves within these haunting spaces and elevates this perceived emptiness to become the subject matter itself.

 Through this body of work Dordoy continues his investigation of a visual language rooted in imagery from early 20th century advertisements. Here the vernaculars of Art Deco and Object Poster design are combined with elements from Metaphysical and Post-digital strands of painting. Two works in particular, Nature Nurture and Nurture Nature, play with this layering of references. In these colorways a Japanese screen is translated to a printed poster, to JPG, and then returns to the physicality of painting, in order to serve as the wall of Plato's cave to an impossibly healthy water lily. Stylised and reproduced, the landscape and flower have almost had all the unruliness of nature distilled from their being; and yet they persist, even as the light begins to fade.

Opening: Friday March 6th, 6-8pm

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