All’ Antica – Opening of the exhibition at the Rabley Arts Centre

 Exhibited artists: Raphael Barratt, Beau Gabriel, Natalia González Martín, Lydia Pettit, Ted Pim, Catherine Repko, Ugo Sébastião, Dittmar Viane.

Huxley-Parlour are delighted to announce All’Antica, an exhibition of eight international artists who draw from the formalist traditions and lexicon of Western Classicism within their own painting practices. The exhibition title takes its name from the Italian term meaning, ‘in the manner of the ancients’; working across broad visual languages, the exhibition will chart how these artists look back to historical examples from Early Modern Europe to re-invent the language of painting for the twenty-first century. The artists in this exhibition engage both materially and metaphysically with the history of Western painting in a process of world building that seeks an understanding of the past through a contemporary lens, while simultaneously considering how the medium of painting’s traditions may shape our understanding of the present.