Not Vital Listening + Looking

Thaddaeus Ropac London presents Listening + Looking, a solo exhibition by Not Vital. Spanning almost two decades of the Swiss artist’s practice, the exhibition brings together a selection of sculptures from 2009 to the present and his latest series of painted self-portraits, exemplifying Vital’s multidisciplinary approach and his alternative – at times humorous and illogical – strategies of representation.

Rooted in the natural landscape of his native Engadin valley and shaped by the rhythms of his nomadic lifestyle, Vital’s work engages with questions of habitat and environment, as well as the intersections between painting, sculpture and architecture. Over the course of his career, he has challenged traditional notions of depiction, often adopting unconventional logics to represent the human form in its most essential and economic terms. Since his earliest works he has treated the body not as a fixed, hermetic object, but as a site of symbiotic exchange between selfhood and environment. In Listening + Looking, this relationship is explored in works that are at once playful and contemplative, as Vital moves between the frameworks of painting and sculpture to expand and ultimately fuse the two.

Free

Tuesday—Saturday, 10am—6pm