Arts & Culture
Private View –
Abraham Kritzman and Philippe Van Snick: + Days + Nights,
at Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery, Exmouth Market
Thursday, 10th April, 2025, 6 – 8 pm.
Elizabeth Xi Bauer would like to take this opportunity to invite you to the Private View of + Days + Nights, an exhibition of works by contemporary artist Abraham Kritzman and Belgian abstractionist Philippe Van Snick, at Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery.
The opening will take place at Elizabeth Xi Bauer's Exmouth Market gallery on Thursday, 10th April, 2025, 6 – 8 pm, in the presence of Abraham Kritzman and the Estate of Philippe Van Snick.
Philippe Van Snick, Allies 1 (violet), 2012. Acrylic on canvas (unique, diptych) 47 cm x 45 cm each. Photograph: Kristien Daem. Courtesy of the Philippe Van Snick Estate and Martins & Montero.
+ Days + Nights brings together for the first time in dialogue contemporary artist Abraham Kritzman and Belgian abstractionist Philippe Van Snick, whose oeuvre combines the heritage of modern abstract art with the conceptual explorations of the 1970s.
Abraham Kritzman’s multidisciplinary practice centres on an immersive language expressed through painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Inspired by journeys, his work merges mythical narratives, human imagery, architecture, and landscape to create layered and dynamic compositions Kritzman’s works embody a dance of gestures and delicate details that bridge historical and contemporary themes.
Abraham Kritzman. Photograph: Richard Ivey. Courtesy Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery, London.
Philippe Van Snick employed a rigorous yet poetic visual language, using binary logic, mathematical structures, and rhythms in nature to explore perception, time, and space. At the core of his oeuvre was a decimal system (0–9) paired with a distinctive ten-colour palette—red, yellow, blue, orange, violet, green, white, black, gold, and silver—through which he systematically examined the dualities of day and night, presence and absence, stability and instability.
Philippe Van Snick photographed by Marijke Dekeukeleire in front of Attraction, 2018. Courtesy of the Philippe Van Snick Estate and
Martins & Montero.
For Van Snick, art was a vehicle to explore the intrinsic instability of systems: chance eclipses orders and emotions outweigh rationality.
This upcoming exhibition at Elizabeth Xi Bauer is the first time Philippe Van Snick’s work has been exhibited in London since the group exhibitions Frequent Long Walks - A Proposition by Christopher Green at Hannah Barry Gallery in 2016 and The Gap: Selected Abstract Art from Belgium, a group exhibition at Parasol Unit, in 2015, curated by Luc Tuymans.
In their work, Kritzman and Van Snick make it their mission to explore and express the complex interplay between their life experiences and unique artistic languages. Rather than focusing on a singular investigation, these languages are interwoven throughout their works, forming a continuous thread that evolves over time.
This exhibition at Elizabeth Xi Bauer provides a new context for this ongoing exploration, examining how contemporary abstraction can expand the possibilities of meaning and association. Far from isolating or rejecting, it encourages a post-symbolist approach that invites fluid interpretation and connection.
Ultimately, both artists challenge viewers to reconsider unseen patterns that shape their worlds and the viewer’s experiences —not as fixed, rigid systems but as fluid, ever-evolving structures that invite constant reexamination.
+ Days + Nights will run from 11th April – 8th June 2025, at Elizabeth Xi Bauer’s Exmouth Market location, open Wednesday through to Saturday, 12 – 6 pm or by appointment. A Private View will be held on 10th April 2025, 6 – 8 pm.
We are also delighted to announce that this exhibition will be part of London Gallery Weekend 2025 edition (6th – 8th June). As part of this, Elizabeth Xi Bauer will present a panel discussion at the Exmouth Market space in June 2025, open to the public.
This exhibition has been conceived courtesy of the Philippe Van Snick Estate and Martins & Montero.
To RSVP or for any assistance, please do kindly contact us at paige@lizxib.com.
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