Headland | Sean Molloy at the Molesworth Gallery

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Over the past 15 years, Sean Molloy has investigated and deconstructed the baroque painting canon. Initially, this took the form of portraiture, primarily via the unsettling representation of Philip IV by Velazquez, later leading to exploration of the baroque landscape canon, in particular the works of Berchem, Ruisdael, Cuyp and Wouwerman. From 2014, he focussed on creating capricci, imagined landscapes composited from references in the baroque canon, occasionally including staffage and overlain with disruptive, superimposed and highly-saturated ‘glitch’ elements.