Huxley-Parlour In Three Acts

Closed

28.4 – 27.5 2023

In Three Acts

45 Maddox St

In Three Acts

28.04 – 27.05.2023

Includes:EichwaldMulvihillPolatchRuigrokTopolewskiWorks (13)

Closed

Hours

Monday to Saturday

10:00 am – 5:30 pm

Gallery

45 Maddox St
London
W1S 2PE

Huxley-Parlour are pleased to announce In Three Acts, a group exhibition that presents the work of five international artists and is accompanied by a piece of narrative fiction, written in three acts, by Estelle Hoy.

Includes: Katelyn Eichwald, Oliver Mulvihill, Stephen Polatch, Sophie Ruigrok, Rafal Topolewski

This exhibition turns conceptually around the number three: a historically magical number that retains a certain hold in contemporary practice. Classic storytelling structure is divided into three acts: the first act introduces characters and the world they inhabit, this is followed by rising action and conflict in the second act and resolution in the third. Exposition, confrontation, denouement. It is this three-act structure that provides the intellectual framework for this exhibition.

In Three Acts is not, however, an exhibition about characters, the portrayal of events, action or conflict. It is about the slippages between those things that artists use to conjure narrative. The exhibition embraces non-linear and fluid approaches to story-telling, placing emphasis on narrative potential, ambiguity, sequence and implication.

Copies of ‘Three Seasons’, by Estelle Hoy, a work of fiction based on the works in the exhibition, are available in the gallery.

THE EXHIBITION

9

The Works

13

1

Rafal Topolewski

Untitled (Dictate)

2023

Oil on canvas

2

Rafal Topolewski

Untitled (Deep Breath)

2023

Oil on canvas

3

Rafal Topolewski

Untitled (Relation)

2023

Oil on canvas

4

Stephen Polatch

Post-30th

2023

Oil on board

5

Sophie Ruigrok

Changed, but Not Enough

2023

Soft pastel on sanded paper

6

Sophie Ruigrok

Strangers, but Not Enough

2023

Soft pastel on sanded paper

7

Sophie Ruigrok

A Better You

2023

Soft pastel on sanded paper

8

Stephen Polatch

Odette, Odile and Siegfried

2023

Oil on canvas

9

Katelyn Eichwald

Power

2023

Oil on hemp

10

Oliver Mulvihill

Preparation

2022

Tempera on panel

11

Oliver Mulvihill

The Set-Up

2022

Tempera on panel

12

Oliver Mulvihill

Postscript

2022

Tempera on panel

13

Katelyn Eichwald

Redcoats

2023

Oil on hemp

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