PLATO

Participating Artists: Alic Brock, Maude Corriveau, Kim DeJesus, Ákos Ezer, Yoon Hyup, Darina Karpov, Mevlana Lipp, Erik Nieminen, Marlon Portales, Vadim Pugin, Jacob Rochester, Gretchen Scherer, Guillermo Serrano Amat, Stass Shpanin, Alex Sutcliffe, Takura Suzuki, Vickie Vainionpää and Andrew Woolbright.

 

PLATO is supremely excited to announce the opening of Exaltation, an eighteen-artist group exhibition dedicated to various mannerist styles of today, which will run through August 16. Exaltation characterizes our era as that of transformation and emotional charge; a time when history is being relived, recreated and reexamined through the prism of now. 

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'I’ve been thinking about this show for several years. The final catalyst for it was Katie White’s 2024 Artnet article about the alleged rise of the Neo-Rococo movement in contemporary art. White, following Danielle Thom’s observations in ArtReview two years prior, singled out a group of female artists as those reviving the tradition of 18th-century France celebrating fashion, wealth and frivolity. Not disagreeing with White, I, however, recognized this trend as part of a bigger and more diverse movement, a sort of mannerism reflecting the turbulence, instability and both controversial and hopeful changes of our time.'

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