Sholto Blissett: Rubicon
The artist Sholto Blissett will present his first solo show at the Alexander Berggruen gallery that is based in New York. Called Sholto Blissett: Rubicon, the exhibition consists of a series of meticulous and impressionistic paintings that depicts mountainscapes and turbulent waters. As the name of the exhibition entails, Blissett has drawn inspiration from when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river in 49 BC which precipitated Caesar’s civil war and it was before the crossing of the river that Caesar allegedly said the famous words: alea iacta est (”the die is cast)”. Nowadays the term ”crossing the Rubicon” is usually used to describe ”the point of no return” and Blissett in his exhibition explores, according to https://alexanderberggruen.com/exhibitions/sholto-blissett-rubicon/ , the hydraulic process that turbulent water has and ”its symbolism in relation to the sensitivity and interconnectedness of all systems where irreversible transformations are caused by both humans and nature”. This exhibition will be on display in New York until February 22 so we strongly recommend that you check out the Sholto Blissett: Rubicon if you have your ways around the Big Apple then!