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David Risley Gallery is delighted to announce Indoor Paintings, our first solo show of new works by Danish artist Torben Ribe.

Torben Ribe's new works, Indoor Paintings, cut and paste literal objects into the language of abstraction. The status of these works is fluid but they are definitely paintings. We can be sure of that. Enough of the language of painting is there to reassure us of this. These works are not merely painted, though. They are constructed, put together, taken apart, messed up, fixed. They are, at once, abstraction and concrete realism.

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