Culver, Los Angeles
Edouard NG
Alberto
Le MaximumLe Maximum is pleased to present our exhibition Alberto by Edouard NG. Alberto comprises three paintings and a short film titled RRR. NG sprays automotive paint onto acetate sheets roughly the size of a portal, then applies gestural marks in oil. The resulting images are abstract yet derived from everyday life; they mirror our gaze, while alluding to perceptions ranging from a blooming desert plant, the blue of the Amazon truck, or the eye of a hurricane. RRR montages images of nature and the built environment and is accompanied by a soundtrack by Jo “22” Frias. Blades of a yucca merge with the ribs of New York’s Oculus Center and a spinning airforce reactor engine. Opening into the ground are the orifice of a dead plant and the 9/11 memorial in New York. Hypnotic images of technological advance and intimations of civilizational collapse invoke our contradictory present-day realities. Edouard NG lives and works in Los Angeles. NG received a Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute, New York. NG’s work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions: The Cave, Le Maximum; For some bags under the eyes, sans titre, Paris; Œdipus Œdipus, New Galerie, Paris; and [Un]Real, Detour x Nicoletti Contemporary, New York among others.