Mirrors and Light — Ian Davenport

Born in 1966, Ian Davenport was already nominated for the Turner Prize in 1991, gaining international
fame with numerous exhibitions and striking public-space projects. Poured Lines, a 48 metre-wide
mural he created in 2006 for a space under a railway bridge over Southwark Street in London’s
culturally vital Bankside area, has long been considered the largest public work of art in Europe. His
current major project is the design of a staircase at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome. Here, luminous
streams of colour will flow down step after step, creating a unique marriage between Donato Bramante’s
Renaissance cloister dating from 1504 and the very contemporary vision of Ian Davenport.
It is a great honour for Galerie Andres Thalmann to be able to show these works of Ian Davenport in
his third solo exhibition with us.