At the age of ninety, Oliver Lee Jackson continues to explore one of painting’s most enduring questions: the unstable boundary between figuration and abstraction. The exhibition brings together paintings from recent decades alongside a previously unseen multi-panel screen, offering insight into a practice that for more than sixty years has been defined by layered and highly dynamic compositions. Within Jackson’s works appear his well-known figures, the so-called “paint people,” emerging from fields of color and movement. Created with oil paint, chalk, and spray-painted stencils, these presences sometimes gather in small groups, at other times appear alone in essential gestures - crouching, reclining, or interacting with one another - within complex pictorial spaces that invite slow and open interpretation. At the center of the exhibition is a tripartite screen painted on both sides and conceived as a movable element that can be arranged in multiple configurations. The work continually shifts the relationship between figure, landscape, and abstraction, transforming the painted surface into a spatial device that challenges the boundaries between painting and sculpture.
Shanghai presents the largest Morandi exhibition of the century, revealing the Italian Master's world beyond still lifes through iconic works, rare treasures, and studio archives.
