Think of Me When It Thunders is the first solo show of Larry Stanton in Europe. The show includes works on paper and paintings from the artist’s production, and it is conceived in collaboration with Arthur Lambert, Larry Stanton Estate, NYC and the essential support and contribution of Fabio Cherstich.
Larry Stanton was a portraitist. Skill in portraiture is an instinct, it cannot be taught (the only “method” it can have is a dreary measurement, but even that without instinct is not very interesting.) The portraitist is an observer of people, his attitudes and feelings will be reflected in his observations and usually the interest in personality makes one study faces, other aspects of personality show in the body; posture, ways of moving, etc., but most is revealed in the face. People make their own faces and Larry knew this instinctively.
– David Hockney
