In Dries Sept 2020, 2020, Barrington explores the intersections between fashion and fine art, referencing the Belgian designer Dries van Noten in a series of small-scale paintings that evoke the colour palette of his Fall 2020 menswear collection. Separated and contained within individual frames handmade by the artist, these become an emphatic meditation on each of the six different colour values, which are nonetheless inflected by the surrounding colours in the sequence. Strung in a line like jewels on a chain or ellipses in a sentence, there is a particular tempo to the arrangement of the individual works and the colour relationships they establish. In addition to referencing the world of fashion, this work is related to Barrington's ongoing exploration of the 'logic' found within other artists' works, which he adapts to and reinterprets in his own.

Alvaro Barrington

Dries Sept 2020, 2020

Mixed media on burlap paper in artist frame

21.6 x 27.9 cm (8.5 x 11 in) each

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