Salon
10 November – 17 December

Franz Ackermann/Philip Akkerman/Michael Bach/Simon Bill/Kate Bright/ Glenn Brown/Gillian Carnegie/John Currin/Peter Davies/Marlene Dumas/Keith Farquhar/Stefan Jung/Karen Kilimnik/Sean Landers/Michel Majerus/Martin Maloney/Antje Majewski/Lucy McKenzie/Manuel Ocampo/Albert Oehlen/Rob Pruitt/Neo Rauch/Daniel Richter/Thomas Scheibitz/Neil Tait/David Thorpe/Richard Woods/Lisa Yuskavage
 
The Delfina Project Space will be hung in the style of the nineteenth century salon for a presentation of major works by leading and emerging artists from Berlin, London and New York. This exhibition is a view of painting at a time of resurgence, as artists approach a timeworn subject with renewed vigour and energy. Salon seeks to define a current fascination for the particularities of painting - the styles, techniques and movements of the past and present, the strange fantasy worlds to be found within a mass of pictures.
 
During the twentieth century the tradition of the salon hang seemed lost as modernism decreed that paintings be hung in isolation, surrounded by large areas of white space. Hanging work salon style became associated more with the amateur art society than the cutting edge. However, the casual nature of the salon hang seems appropriate to a new generation of painters who care little for the distinctions between high and low and are willing to borrow equally from both. An underlying theme of these works can be found in the irreverent sampling of imagery or techniques from art history, hobbyist art or the mass media alike.
 
The massed clusters of pictures, hung floor to ceiling, will provide an overwhelming display of the aesthetic richness, confidence and diversity of current painting.