Jadé Fadojutimi: Jesture Richard Francis the artist’s first solo exhibition

the artist’s first solo exhibition in Greece in four decades

the artist pushed beyond the boundaries of easel painting to create extraordinary works

an essay by Brother Marc Chauveau

also establishes a mismatch between its formal refinement and the words’ playful disruption

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Jubiläumsausstellung—Special Guest Duane Hanson at Fondation Beyeler

Jadé Fadojutimi: Jesture Richard Francis the artist’s first solo exhibitionThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Jad Fadojutimi: Jesture at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. The hybrid nature of the exhibitions title represents a response to the disruption of daily rhythms during lockdown by evoking a sense of the absurd. Dubbed environments by the artist, the vivid abstract compositions gathered in the exhibition are built up with layers of oil paint interrupted by more linear marks in oil pastel. The