Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “Raqib Shaw: Self Portraits” is on view at White Cube Bermondsey in London through Sunday, September 11. The solo exhibition presents ten paintings and three sculptures that riff on Old Masters, mixed with “images of his Peckham studio, the landscape of his childhood home in Kashmir, Hindu iconography, Japanese decorative arts and architecture,” according to the show’s press release.
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Raqib Shaw, Self Portrait in the Sculpture Studio at Peckham (After Mocetto), 2015–16, acrylic and enamel on birchwood.
Raqib Shaw, Self Portrait in the Study at Peckham (A Reverie after Antonello de Messina’s Saint Jerome) II, 2013–14, Acrylic, enamel and rhinestones on birch wood.