Nigel Cooke

Courtesy Modern Art, London and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Nigel Cooke paints vast, elaborate, entropic landscapes. Littered with the rubble of abandoned buildings, severed heads, skulls and insects, Cooke creates a mesmerising, nightmare-ish view of the world that is both familiar and alien, composed and chaotic. In some of the paintings, nature is depicted as a vast and virulent force infecting the surface of the canvas and morphing into skull-like presences. In other works, the picture plane is suffused in ultraviolet colours and edged with graffiti.

Cooke's meticulous and precise attention to detail leaves nothing to the imagination, in both form and content his paintings involve and overwhelm the viewer, resonating with references to the visionary landscape painters of the past whilst remaining firmly rooted in the present.

Nigel Cooke was born in 1973, and lives and works in London. This is his first solo exhibition in Lonon in two years, and his first museum show in the United Kingdom. Pressetext

Nigel Cooke