Dan Rees

Tanya Leighton is pleased to present Aleatory Compensatory, Dan Rees's forthcoming solo exhibition in Berlin.

In these new works, Rees uses the techniques of marbling often associated with children’s art, hobbyist art, and artisanal bookmaking. Due to the aleatory nature of marbling as a technique itself, the visual outcome of the works is both highly individuated and contains a degree of unpredictability. For this new body of works the artist has used various marbling techniques directly onto canvas creating a range of effects, these variations are further informed by the different types of canvas and linen and the manner in which the material is folded in preparation. The works themselves have been conceived of as four constellations and will be arranged as such within the exhibition. Aleatory Compensatory continues Rees’ ongoing interest in the relationship between conceptual art and aesthetics, and in subtle subversions of artistic hierarchies between art's linguistic character and the desire for affect.

Dan Rees (born in 1982 in Swansea, United Kingdom) lives and works in Berlin. Rees studied at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main until 2009 and graduated from Camberwell College of Arts, London in 2004.

Recent exhibitions include ‘The Beauty of Early Life’ at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe and ‘Omnibus’ at Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin both in 2022; ‘World Art Trends 1982’ at Nuno Centeno, Porto in 2021; ‘Attachment’ at T293, Rome in 2018, and ‘Road Back To Relevance’, Nomas Foundation, Romein in 2016. His work is included in the public collections of Tang Museum, Skidmore College, New York; National Museum Wales, and the Henry Art Gallery Collection, Seattle.