Henry Hudson: The Contemporary Artist’s Progress: the Rise and Fall of Young Sen, S2
Rising star Henry Hudson reinvents Hogarth's satirical masterpiece in spellbinding plasticine at Sotheby's S2 gallery
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Being an artist is an expensive business, as Henry Hudson quickly found when he left Central Saint Martins to pursue a career as an artist. Unlike his oil painting idols Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach, Hudson turned to a far cheaper material in the kids' section of an art suppliers: plasticine. Hudson's work has all the weight and complexity of oil paint, but in the surprisingly versatile form of this retro craft material.
Henry Hudson | Sotheby's exhibition 2015
Hudson's new show for the S2 gallery is entitled,The Contemporary Artist’s Progress: the Rise and Fall of Young Sen - a quirky modern take on William Hogarth's 1733 masterpiece where, instead of the demise of the beguiling Tom Rakewell, the star of the piece is Young Sen. Abandoning his home in rural China, Sen's rise is through the international art scene and his fall is transformed into the messy world of drugs, decadence and even a peppering of politics. There's something of Grayson Perry's wit and understanding of contemporary culture as Hudson blends icons of pop-culture and politics: from Bosch and Rembrandt to Nigel Farage and Hello Kitty.
But don't take our word for it - catch Hudson's latest spectacular plasticine works at the S2 gallery in Mayfair this spring.
Being an artist is an expensive business, as Henry Hudson quickly found when he left Central Saint Martins to pursue a career as an artist. Unlike his oil painting idols Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach, Hudson turned to a far cheaper material in the kids' section of an art suppliers: plasticine. Hudson's work has all the weight and complexity of oil paint, but in the surprisingly versatile form of this retro craft material.
Henry Hudson | Sotheby's exhibition 2015
Hudson's new show for the S2 gallery is entitled,The Contemporary Artist’s Progress: the Rise and Fall of Young Sen - a quirky modern take on William Hogarth's 1733 masterpiece where, instead of the demise of the beguiling Tom Rakewell, the star of the piece is Young Sen. Abandoning his home in rural China, Sen's rise is through the international art scene and his fall is transformed into the messy world of drugs, decadence and even a peppering of politics. There's something of Grayson Perry's wit and understanding of contemporary culture as Hudson blends icons of pop-culture and politics: from Bosch and Rembrandt to Nigel Farage and Hello Kitty.
But don't take our word for it - catch Hudson's latest spectacular plasticine works at the S2 gallery in Mayfair this spring.
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| What | Henry Hudson: The Contemporary Artist’s Progress: the Rise and Fall of Young Sen, S2 |
| Where | S2 gallery, 31 St George Street, London, W1S 2FJ | MAP |
| Nearest tube | Oxford Circus (underground) |
| When |
23 Apr 15 – 29 Apr 15, Monday - Friday 10 - 6pm, Saturday, 12 - 5pm |
| Price | £Free |
| Website | Click here for more details |