Blood & Dust
A Solo Exhibition for Angela Ferrari

*Male Gaze* by Angela Ferrari, oil on canvas, 2023

Blood & Dust

25 May, 2023 - 2 July, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday 25 May, 5pm to 8:00pm

Maximilian Contemporary is pleased to announce Blood & Dust a solo exhibition for Angela Ferrari, featuring a new body of oil paintings exectuted this year.

The theme of the paintings have to do with violence in particular gender violence. The animals in the painting serve as a metaphor to the constant possibility of violence - wether a violent act occurs or not, the possibility of its manifestation is ever present.

Some of the works depict scenes of dogs in the moment of action, attacking wild boars and other animals, while some of the paintings depict the moments leading up to an attack - the quiet before the storm. Although the images in the paintings themselves are for the most part inspired by Dutch Renaissance paintings depicting scenes of hunting dogs, the ideas behind these contemporary works by Angela have to do more with male violence against women, and its normalisation in society.

The name Blood and Dust was inspired by one of the artist’s most impressive works to date, a painting that took her almost two years to complete. It is a combination of oil and acrylic on a 20 foot x 14 foot stretch of canvas. The painting depicts a pack of hunting dogs hurtling through the air to attack their prey, a wild boar. Around the animals all a large variety of plants, all of which the artist sees near her studio in Mexico City, and like the artist herself, are foreign to the country but have thrived none the less. For more information on this work, scroll further down to watch the video where we interviewed Angela about the painting and the concept behind it.

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On view: 25 May, 2023 - 2 July, 2023

Gallery hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 12noon to 4pm Or by appointment, schedule by email - max@maximiliancontemporary.com

792 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109

View Works

Male gaze

Units of landscape I

Units of landscape II

When we thought we were happy

No landscape is neutral

The theatrical unity

Just watching you

The tail of the leaf

Nap time

The protagonist

Architecture of hunting

Hunting is not a sport

Smelling the grass

Interview with Angela Ferrari

Interview with Angela Ferrari at her studio in Mexico City.

“This exhibition has to do not only with gender violence, but also with many types of violence that I still cannot name because I don’t know their names, new but old violence, violence that is related to seeing the world through the retina of another that it’s not me, from the expectation of being and the expectation of not being raw all the time.

Painting is a moralizing and moralized political fiction that shapes us just like the language and topographies into which we were born; and through this series I try to understand how, why and for what I want to make a painting so delicious and so bestial that the viewer feels that they are being swallowed by it, but at the same time wanting to devour it too.”

— Angela Ferrari