Alonso Galue: All The Brokenhearted People
@ Belong Gallery
2712 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, September 25th
Belong Gallery is pleased to present All the Brokenhearted People, the first painting only exhibition of works by Alonso Galue.
Galue’s portraits explore the presentation of the human form and its fascinating aesthetic. His energetic and quick impressions of color interact and vibrate in the eye of the observer. The floating figures seem to move as you approach, becoming more abstract and diluted. This effect reminds us of the abstract paintings of the 20th Century.
Titled after The Beatles’ song “Let It Be,” a song traditionally associated with hope, the exhibition unites ideas of human suffering, portraying images from palpable realities while reaching towards their sublime dimensions.
Galue’s work speaks to the intensity of being alive today. His work exists as a continuation of a long lineage of figurative painting. Like Rembrandt, Lucian Freud, and Frank Hauerback, he explores the hallmarks of this style of painting: flesh and materiality.
In the past, Galue has presented human figures as disappearing, broken, decaying, and ephemeral. Now, he presents paintings of freshly forms confronting us with all that we missed looking in the mirror.
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