Paintings, works on paper, installations
While Jim Avignon painted Deutsche British Airways planes and Rover cars in the 1990s and designed watches for Swatch, his street art is now a ubiquitous presence in the cityscapes of several major cities. His spectacular act of painting over his own mural on the Berlin Wall in 2013 brought him back into the international headlines. But his 2,800-square-meter painting—the world’s largest, carried by 132 athletes for the reopening of Berlin’s Olympic Stadium—was also spectacular.
In his exhibition in Ahrenshoop, Jim Avignon will showcase works from the past few months. Here, he succeeds in presenting his humorous and subtle exploration of socially relevant themes within everyday scenes. His visual language is characterized by a sense of lightness; pop art and catchiness take center stage. But the often colorful surface of his paintings primarily conveys the committed stance of an artist whose complex and deeply human view of the world stems from his attentive and empathetic powers of observation.
Exhibition dates: August 16, 2020 – September 20, 2020
