The art of Pablo Bronstein dialogues with the 18th century

date and location: 6 October 2021 - 2 January 2022, Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Field, London

"Hell in its Heyday" is the exhibition that Argentine artist Pablo Bronstein, based in London, has created for the neoclassical interiors of the Sir John Soane's Museum in London: a series of 22 large-scale watercolors on paper immerses visitors in a tour of hell interpreted by Bronstein through nostalgic and ironic scenarios of the last two centuries of progress. Amidst images of concert halls, casinos, botanical gardens, automobile factories and oil rigs, visitors will also be able to watch a film in which a group of diabolical antique dealers perform a masked ballet.

Following the 2009 show at the Metropilitan Museum of Art in New York, this is the second museum exhibition dedicated to Bronstein's works on paper: on this occasion, a few of the artist's ornaments and images are inspired by the Soane Museum, whose founder, Sir John Soane, born in the mid-18th century, was one of the greatest British architects of his time. Thanks to his archaeological explorations and travels, Soane revisited ancient art in a personal and elegant style, giving life to a dense collection of objects and fragments, Greek and Chinese vases, Roman busts, Egyptian sarcophagi and Renaissance sculptures, enriched by paintings of great English painters such as William Hogarth, alongside beautiful Canaletto's Venetian views.

Pablo Bronstein is known in the world of art and interior design for his drawings of imaginary buildings, meticulously rendered in pen and ink, together with installations, sculptures and choreographic performances, which have as their common denominator a deep interest in the universe of architecture.