Time: Friday 7th November, 3.30PM.
Venue: HackelBury Fine Art, 4 Launceston Place, London, W8 5RL.

Join us for a social gathering at HackelBury Fine Art to see the exhibition A Tragedy of Infinite Beauty, a solo exhibition by American artists Doug & Mike Starn.
Following this, we will head for a drink & chat at The Queens Arms, 30 Queen's Gate Mews, South Kensington, London SW7 5QL

An excerpt from the exhibition description;

’The twins present new works which reflect on impermanence, perception, and the tension between beauty and destruction. The two series on view, Under the Sky and Everything Is Liquid, explore the overwhelming yet often unnoticed forces - atmospheric, emotional, geological, and cultural - which shape our lives.

The Starns navigate the world with the conviction that interconnection and interdependence are not abstract ideas, but conditions of being. This presents an exigence for them in their work — responding to the constant flow of objects in time, and reflect the dynamic forces of nature. Skies drift and billow, oceans crash, mountains rise — each moving at a different pace, from the immediate and fleeting to the glacial and imperceptible. From this perspective of shifting landscapes, the work pulls us inward through their intricacies of surface and gestural markmaking.

Created using hand-coated papers, photographic fragments, adhesive, varnish, wax and pigment, the works resist classification. Photographs dissolve into paintings taking on the presence of sculptural objects. Their surfaces recall the carved and inked textures of Japanese woodcuts, particularly those rooted in Buddhist print traditions. These early prints were devotional objects made through repetition and touch, shaped by time and intention. The Starns draw on this spirit through their own layered process, where images are assembled, erased and remade — interrupting detail, smoothing tonal range, scraping away form, until what remains is an image which is felt as much as seen.’