Beware Wet Paint is a two part project with one exhibition at the ICA and an interlinked exhibition starting a month later at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (FSRR) in Turin (29 October 2014 – 1 February 2015). Beware Wet Paint will propose a new path for painting, viewed here as a self-referential practice concerned more by its own memory than picturing the world or the artists' psyche.

Korakrit Arunanondchai, Isabelle Cornaro, Jeff Elrod, Nikolas Gambaroff, Parker Ito, David Ostrowski, Pamela Rosenkranz, Ned Vena and Christopher Wool are confirmed in the ICA exhibition.

Korakrit Arunanondchai, Isabelle Cornaro, Jeff Elrod, Nikolas Gambaroff, Isa Genzken, Nathan Hylden, Parker Ito, Oscar Murillo, David Ostrowski, Diogo Pimentão, Pamela Rosenkranz, Ned Vena and Christopher Wool are confirmed for the Turin exhibition.

The exhibition title comes from Richard Hamilton's recollection of Marcel Duchamp saying the words slowly with additional emphasis on the word 'beware', underlining the disruptive potential of what might otherwise be considered a traditional art form. The title also alludes to the notion of painting having been placed in the hands of those who might be said to be 'practicing without a license', a term once applied by Richard Prince to his own re-photography and more recently proposed by Christopher Wool at a recent Guggenheim talk in relation to painting.

Like the ICA the FSRR supports the work of young artists and will enable a larger number of works to be exhibited. The exhibition coincides with a forthcoming Thames & Hudson publication entitled 100 Painters of Tomorrow which will be released at the time of the show.

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Related images
  1. Oscar Murillo (showing at FSRR, Turin), Bingo!, 2013, oil, oil stick, dirt on canvas, 300 x 230 cm (HxL), Collection Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Courtesy of the artist, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, Photographer: Nick Ash, Berlin
  2. Jeff Elrod (showing at FSRR, Turin), Inverted Clone, 2013, UV ink on fisher canvas, 284.8 x 213.4 cm (112 1/8 x 84 in.)
  3. Nikolas Gambaroff (showing at ICA, London & FSRR, Turin), Untitled, 2014, acrylic on paper and aluminum panel, 96 x 59 ½ in / 243.8 x 151.1 cm, Courtesy the artist