Kunsthalle Lissabon presents P for Everything, an exhibition by Swedish artist Charles Benjamin featuring new paintings specifically devised for the gallery space. P for Everything stages a set of oversized canvases that depict life on an epic scale. From snapshots of a quiet interior life to aspirational hallmarks, the paintings expand motifs to the level of larger-‐‑than-‐‑life protagonists: a still life, an ethereal mobile, a calculator, a t-‐‑shirt and pants, a house-‐‑within-‐‑a-‐‑house, parquet flooring, a lawn. Hyper-‐‑minimalist and proto-‐‑naïve, the ochre line of the oil-‐‑stick presents viewers with a lodestar to guide them through the space. In its oily tint, the paint is further redolent of the smeary logbook a mechanic may use to keep track of ongoing work on their engine. The canvases may then be viewed as a ledger, charting the shape and technicality of things in case one should forget. Like the logbook, the canvases act as...both index and record for an ongoing process of material adjustment.
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