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Presentation Details
Allouche Benias will dedicate a solo presentation to the painter Tom Rees. With an offhand, stream-of-consciousness style, Rees echoes automatic writing and drawing practices. His caustic visual lexicon draws on noir, art brut and muralism, often freezing his subjects in positions of compromise or defeat. Cartoonish everymen wander lost in the landscape or lie trampled in the dirt, alternately floating and drowning in swampy water. In Rees’s hands, however, the atmosphere of threat also serves to raise a laugh, harboring an implicit social satire.

About the Gallery
Allouche Benias Gallery is located in Kolonaki and it is housed in the mesmerizing reinstituted 1882 Deligeorgis Mansion. This gallery has left a mark in the domestic art world since it was established in 2018. The gallery exhibits a few shows yearly with contemporary artworks in all range of media by national and international artists.

Images

Tom Rees, Total Annihilation, 2022, Oil on canvas, 75 x 90 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Total Annihilation, 2022, Oil on canvas, 75 x 90 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Meeting, 2022, Oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Meeting, 2022, Oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Yellow swamp, 2022, Oil on canvas, 86 x 75 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Yellow swamp, 2022, Oil on canvas, 86 x 75 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Tube disaster, 2022, Oil on canvas, 53 x 66 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Tube disaster, 2022, Oil on canvas, 53 x 66 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, No trouble, no danger, 2022, Oil on canvas, 96 x 84 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, No trouble, no danger, 2022, Oil on canvas, 96 x 84 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Rambler, 2022, Oil on canvas, 84 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Rambler, 2022, Oil on canvas, 84 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Garden, 2022, Oil on canvas, 84 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Garden, 2022, Oil on canvas, 84 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Exotica, 2022, Oil on canvas, 87 x 103 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Exotica, 2022, Oil on canvas, 87 x 103 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Animal with pink sky, 2022, Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Animal with pink sky, 2022, Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Redhead, 2022, Oil on canvas, 90 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Redhead, 2022, Oil on canvas, 90 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Balloons, 2022, Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery

Tom Rees, Balloons, 2022, Oil on canvas, 60 x 72 inches. Courtesy of Allouche Benias Gallery