A Little Sun | VeneKlasen
I said goodbye to the summer with this show, viewed briefly on an office day lunch hour, the sky blue and blustery - the slanted September sunlight elegaic for the summer that’s been. Only a little sun reached the walls of the VeneKlasen gallery, in an old townhouse south of Marble Arch station.
Ironically, the titular work, by Andy Robert, was in the gallery’s darkest corner. The other highlights of this group exhibition - a Baselitz drawing of a horse, a Florian Krewer portrait that echoed the great man - were better lit.
Ti Soleil (A little sun) (2021)
Robert’s work is a luminous triptych on paper, bright yellow hues slowly greying, then darkening, from right to left, with the passage of time.
The artist was born in Haiti. He often references the Creole term lakou, which denotes a plot of land encompassing a variety of meanings and usages. There’s a link with that term and what spreads across these three sheets of partly-lit paper on a Mayfair wall: the patterns are topographical, but the topography is as much of time as of landscape.
Leaving the gallery and hurrying back to the station, clouds gathering overhead, I felt that the fleetingness of my visit to see this work was appropriate.
A Little Sun is at VeneKlasen (London). 02 July to 12 September 2026