Harkawik is pleased to announce our solo exhibition with Guillermo Serrano Amat, his first in the United States. Born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1993, Serrano Amat has, for the past two years, called New York both home and muse, constructing in paint a sort of parallell reality to his own, one that allows his singular perspective to flourish. His palette is borrowed from the proponents of the Neue Sachlichkeit; his perspective from Terry Gilliam. He makes extensive use of formats more common to 17th century Mannerism than to contemporary painting—long, winding apertures that allow action to emerge from the perspective of a distant interloper, unfurling across the picture plane with escalating verve, until it arrives crashing at our footsteps. Fundamentally,…
