Booth walkthrough
RICHARD ZINON
Cadogan Gallery (London, Milan)
In English, without translation.
Open to the public.
The gesture that changed everything, the decision to stop, the material that resisted, the accident that became essential. Richard Zinon approaches painting as a negotiation between two kinds of time: long contemplation and sudden action. His works developed around José Ignacio absorbing landscape not as scenery but through atmosphere, rhythm, and duration; the decisive gesture arrives only after an extended process of looking and waiting. ESTE FOCUS is a moment to look closely, listen carefully, and understand the ideas behind the work, and the process that brought it into being.
CURATORIAL VISION
Cadogan Gallery presents a body of paintings by Richard Zinon developed in dialogue with the landscape surrounding José Ignacio. Zinon builds his surfaces slowly, accumulating layers that produce a patina reminiscent of aged paper or stone. Against these atmospheric grounds, calligraphic gestures are executed rapidly and intuitively, creating a tension between duration and immediacy. The landscape enters the work indirectly, through light, atmosphere, rhythm, and the experience of working in Uruguay rather than through representation. The presentation foregrounds the relationship between Zinon’s meditative process and the decisive physical gesture that completes each painting.
BIO
Richard Zinon (b. 1985, Manchester, United Kingdom) is a British painter whose abstract practice centers on gesture, materiality, and the physical act of painting. Working with a restricted palette, he builds layered surfaces punctuated by broad, calligraphic marks that explore light, depth, and movement. Zinon avoids preparatory sketches, allowing intuition and physical immediacy to guide the final gestures of each composition. He studies in Florence at the Angel Academy of Art and the Accademia di Belle Arti and lives and works between Italy and the United Kingdom.