London-based artist Jeremy Dickinson is showing his latest solo exhibition at Galerie Xippas in Athens, Greece from June 17 – September 26.
The show features large and small works by the British painter all focusing on his passion for transportation.
Dickinson’s work features methodical and meticulous reproductions of cars, buses and trucks. He paints these vehicles in a realistic style that eventually reveals that they are in fact miniature toys that are reproductions of actual objects. Some of the small models are from Dickinson’s childhood, while others were later added to his collection. The toys are arranged in a variety of ways form being stacked on top of each other to thematic groupings, set against solid neutral color backgrounds.
His work ‘alludes both to the collector’s obsession with the object of his passion and to the adult’s wish to revive a memory and immortalize its content.’
I can’t tell if these are real cars or toys, and I like it that way. This artist could be part of the cubist movement, I think. The one in the lower right corner is reminiscent of Mondrian without the color. Simplicity. My favorite!