Gideon Rubin – Look Again

Gideon Rubin is an artist who lives and works in London, exploring identity, history, and the inheritance of trauma in his enigmatic paintings. His second major trade monograph, "Look Again," showcases his substantial body of work since 2015, including studies of people in nature and scenes of solitude and intimacy. The publication includes essays by author and art critic Jennifer Higgie and Dr. Matthew Holman, exploring Rubins cinematic characters, source material, artistic conventions, and engagement with sexuality. Rubin's paintings are essential to his creative and therapeutic act, and he has had numerous international one-man shows and his works are included in international private and public collections. Recent exhibitions include 13, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan (2023), Dark Noise, The Kupferman House Collection, Israel (2023), Portrait without a Face, Fox Jensen Gallery, Tokyo (2023), a solo show at CASSIUS&Co., London (2023), and Living Memory, a two-person show with Louise Bourgeois in a Grade II listed chapel in London (2023).

Format: Hardback
Length: 228 pages
Publication date: 09 November 2023
Publisher: Anomie Publishing

Gideon Rubin, an artist born in 1973 in Israel, currently resides and works in London. His enigmatic paintings delve into themes of identity, history, and the transmission of trauma, drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, including film, popular culture, art history, and literature. Rubin's haunting and subtly theatrical paintings often feature faceless yet familiar figures, creating and investigating mythologies from the recent past. His expressive mark-making, muted palette, and understated use of negative space and raw canvas contribute to the haunting and atmospheric quality of his work. "Look Again," Rubin's second major trade monograph, showcases his substantial body of work since 2015, including studies of people in nature and scenes of solitude and intimacy. Author and art critic Jennifer Higgie discusses the evolution of Rubin's artistic style and his many influences, including Balthus, De Kooning, Guston, and Diebenkorn. Dr. Matthew Holman's expansive essay explores Rubin's cinematic characters, source material, his use of artistic conventions, and engagement with sexuality. Holman investigates the meaning of redaction in Rubin's work, both in his faceless portraits and in Black Book, a work in which Rubin used black paint to erase the contents of a 1938 English translation of Mein Kampf. Exhibited at the Freud Museum in London in 2018, Black Book is an exploration of what is left out of history, as much as what is remembered. Painting is essential to Rubin, both as a creative and therapeutic act. In conversation with fellow artist Varda Caivano, Rubin analyses his motivations, processes, and doubts, and explains his surprising route to painting. Despite coming from a lineage of painters on his father's side, it was largely his mother's academic love of art that inspired him to pursue a career in the arts.

Weight: 1322g
Dimension: 213 x 266 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781910221525