Vittorio Brodmann at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise

Tiny ghoulish characters – a blue faced man with huge teeth, a sinister frog in a t-shirt – populate young Swiss artist Vittorio Brodmann’s paintings of brick walls. Two sided and hung in the window to show bricks both inside and out, the paintings suggest neighborhood decline but also offer the wall as (literal) canvas. (At Gavin Brown’s Enterprise through Nov 13th).

Vittorio Brodmann, Barking up a Tree, oil on fabric, double-sided, 95 x 55 inches, 2016.
Vittorio Brodmann, Barking up a Tree, oil on fabric, double-sided, 95 x 55 inches, 2016.