Private View
Thursday 13 November 18:00 - 20:00 GMT
Exhibition Dates
Friday 14 November 2025 - Saturday 17 January 2026
Monday - Friday 10:00 - 18:00 GMT
Saturday 11:00 - 18:00 GMT
Paul Stolper is pleased to announce Brian Eno’s 'Blocks', a series of paintings made in August 2025 during a two-day continuous performance in his London studio. Over four hundred primed birch ply panels, each measuring 18 x 13 x 2.5 cm, were laid out across a number of long tables.
Eno made large cut-out stencils, which he set down across numerous panels and sprayed through, resulting in positive painted shapes. By placing or randomly dropping and spraying over found shapes as well as dried pasta, negative painted shapes were created on the panels below. Areas more congested with shapes would reveal much busier compositions. Others with few shapes and paint covering would be more quiet and minimal. Throughout the process, Eno was picking out pieces as they seemed finished, leaving gaps to be filled with other blocks. A block stayed in circulation until it 'got somewhere'.
Hugely enjoying the dramatic oppositions of composition and colour offered by the remaining panels, Eno adopted a very different curatorial approach to the project. From these he made a small series of works, each one made up of four panels measuring 31 x 31 cm, whilst leaving a 5 x 5 cm square gap in the centre, again referencing the positive and negative shapes made in the painting process.
Each individual painting £500 inc vat + p&p (vat not applicable if shipping outside the UK). Shipping UK £15 inc vat, Europe £20, Rest of World £40
Prices quoted are correct for the duration of the exhibition and will rise after the exhibition finishes January 17th 2026.