Timothy Taylor is pleased to return for the eleventh edition of West Bund Art & Design this November in Shanghai. The gallery will centre its presentation on new and recent works by Eddie Martinez that span the artist's oeuvre. Coinciding with the fair, Martinez is currently featured at La Biennale di Venezia 2024 with a solo presentation for the Republic of San Marino. The gallery will also display work by Daniel Crews-Chubb, Alex Katz, Sean Landers, Kiki Smith, Paul Anthony Smith, Antoni Tàpies, and Honor Titus.
In Bufly No. 39 (Last Line) (2023), Martinez injects his personal iconography infusing an abundance of texture and colour into the painting. The work pictures the artist's signature recurring butterfly motif from his "buflies" series, which he started in 2021, reflecting the joy and brightness that pervades his practice. A new painting by Crews-Chubb titled Out of Chaos IX (Pink, Orange Red and White) (2024) encourages careful consideration of the painterly surface while exploring representations of the figure throughout history. Its appearance at the fair coincides with Immortals at the Long Museum in Shanghai—the artist's first solo institutional exhibition, opening during the fair. Multimedia works by Catalonian artist Tàpies suggest a poignant visual language and artistic philosophy drawn from the use of quotidian-and often unexpected-materials. These works follow on the heels of Tàpies's centennial last year, which saw a major retrospective show at the Shanghai Bund Art Center. Landers—also critically acclaimed for his conceptual and deeply personal practice—contributes a recent painting to the booth as well, marking a debut for his work in mainland China.
A suite of vibrant, tactile paintings by Paul Anthony Smith from his ongoing Dreams Deferred series presents further innovations in technique and medium. Layering oil stick onto inkjet prints, the artist obscures and complicates photographs he takes of gardens and abandoned lots; other works from this series were most recently exhibited at Frieze London 2024, as part of the artist's first solo presentation with the gallery. Alongside these artists, Katz, Kiki Smith, Titus, and others further underline the gallery's deep engagement with contemporary art, across media, method, and style.
