A solo exhibition presented by VIN VIN in collaboration with Siegfried Contemporary
In Jamiu Agboke’s universe of forms, transience is the governing principle. Veils of the Horizon is a series of paintings concerned with shadows over hard objects, traces of past presences, and gleaming residues. As landscape studies, these oils on copper and aluminium, framed in an earthy stained oak, detail the transformations of the natural world at extremities of heat and texture; as abstract experiments on a hostile surface, they become expressive arenas of energetic mark-making that transform the way we see space and place beyond the city walls. Conversant with the rich histories of the English landscape tradition, Agboke renews that tradition for our moment. As in the age of J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, who each reckoned in their own distinct surfaces with the ways in which the industrial and agricultural revolutions wrought disfigurements and revelations on the land, Agboke sees our time––or something close to our time, perhaps a near future––as one of radical transformation which refuses to be recollected in tranquillity. Spending time with these vigorous works, we see the traditional format of the landscape painting revolutionised by a force both unfamiliar and yet achingly historical. Above all, Agboke’s fiercely dynamic brushstrokes are tempered by a singular approach to close looking at the world. - Matthew James Holman, 2024
Jamiu Agboke (b. 1989, Lagos, Nigeria, lives and works in London) graduated at the Royal Drawing School in April 2022. He is represented by VIN VIN Vienna / Naples.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- March 2025, VIN VIN, Vienna
- October 2024, Veils of the horizon, in collaboration with SIEGFRIED CONTEMPORARY, London
- April 2024, Sea View, Los Angeles (CA)
- February 2024, Vertigo, VIN VIN in collaboration with Valerio Polimeno, Paris
- November 2023, Artissima, Turin (IT) with VIN VIN
- May 2023, Dark Waters, VIN VIN, Naples
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024- Body Symphonies, alongside George Rouy, Alex Foxton, Leo Orta, Claire Fahys, Malù Dalla Piccola, John Fou, Shuo Hao, Ricardo Fumanal, Giovanni Bassan, and Bianca Argimón, curated by Marion Guggenheim and Nicolas Dewavrin, Paris
- In the shadow, White Cube, alongside Alia Ahmad, Mona Hatoum, Mary Herbert, Tomas Leth (online)
- A new sensation, Galerie Marguo, Paris
- Project Space, Kane Le Bain
- Jack Barret, New York
2022
- Guts Gallery
- The Split Gallery
- VIN VIN Vienna