24 APR – 28 JUL 2018
NAPLES
Glenn Ligon, one of the US’s most prominent and punchy artists, has taken his art in a new stylistic direction in his first solo show in Italy. The artist—who is best known for his text-based paintings that he began making in the 1980s—says his new silkscreen and ink marker paintings take text “to a new level of abstraction”. The exhibition In poetry, a solution to everything (until 28 July), at Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples, also reflects the Bronx-born artist’s ongoing political concerns through two new neon sculptures that explore the issue of immigration in the Neapolitan context.