David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Antiguan artist, writer, and polymath Frank Walter (1926–2009) at the gallery’s Hong Kong location. Curated by art historian Barbara Paca, a close friend to the artist and devoted scholar of his work, Pastorale is Walter’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and the first presentation of his work in Asia.
The exhibition will feature paintings and works on paper that exemplify Walter’s rich body of work, which encompasses a variety of media, styles, and formats, including those made on such supports as Polaroid film cartridge boxes, mosquito coil boxes, and fragments of sketchpad covers. Featured will be a group of Caribbean landscapes alongside a selection of small-scale paintings depicting the meadows of Scotland—made from memory to commemorate the time he spent there in 1960—which reveal the artist’s distinctive use of color and his personal vision of the places he lived, traveled, and imagined. As Paca writes in a curatorial statement for the exhibition, “Pastorale presents a new dimension of the vast oeuvre of universal artist Frank Walter. As a recluse, Walter was more at ease in a world where he dwelt as the solitary inhabitant, and he captured every nuance with immediacy and honesty.”1
1 Barbara Paca, “Frank Walter’s Pastorale,” curatorial statement for the exhibition, 2023.
Image: Frank Walter outside his photo studio, Antigua, 1990s. © The Family of Frank Walter and Barbara Paca
卓納畫廊欣然於香港空間呈現安提瓜藝術家、作家、博學家弗蘭克·沃爾特（1926–2009年）的作品個展。展覽「田園牧歌」由藝術史學家芭芭拉·帕卡（Barbara Paca）策劃，她是藝術家的摯友，也是一位致力於其作品研究的學者。這將是沃爾特的第三場畫廊展覽，也是他的作品在亞洲的首展。
展覽將突出彰顯了沃爾特豐富創作的繪畫和紙本作品，它們涵蓋了各種媒介、風格及形式，包括以寶麗來膠片盒、蚊香盒、速寫簿封面的碎片作為背板支撐的作品。展覽將呈現一組加勒比海的風景畫，及一組精選的小尺幅繪畫，它們描繪了蘇格蘭草地——沃爾特依據自己的記憶所創作，以紀念他1960年在當地度過的時光——並展露出藝術家獨特的色彩運用，以及他對自己曾生活、遊歷、想象的諸多地點的看法。正如帕卡在這次的策展陳述中所寫的那樣：「『田園牧歌』呈現了享譽世界的藝術家弗蘭克·沃爾特開闊豐富的藝術創作中的全新維度。作為一位隱居者，沃爾特在無人之境裡感到更自在，而且他以直率和坦誠去捕捉每一處細微的差別。」1
1 芭芭拉·帕卡（Barbara Paca），《弗蘭克·沃爾特的「田園牧歌」》，2023年。
圖片：弗蘭克·沃爾特在他攝影工作室的室外，1990年代。© 弗蘭克·沃爾特家族及芭芭拉·帕卡