LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting an exhibition of new works by Sanya Kantarovsky and Camille Blatrix at the gallery’s Bury Street space. This marks the first collaboration between the two artists.

While visiting Japan between 2018 and 2019, Kantarovsky developed an edition of traditional Ukiyo‑e woodblock prints together with the Adachi Hanga Institute of Printmaking in Tokyo. Here, Kantarovsky’s prints are housed individually in frames fabricated out of Corian by Camille Blatrix. The frames are embedded with handcrafted wood marquetry pieces, each decorative element responding to the prints they encase. Reminiscent of bivalve shells, the frames are designed with revolving exterior faces, offering optional protection or exposure throughout the course of the exhibition.

Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982, Russia) lives and works in New York State. He studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI and received his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kantarovsky’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland (2018) and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy (2017- 2018). His comprehensive monograph entitled No Joke was co-published by Studio Voltaire and Koenig Books in 2016. Kantarovsky’s works can be found in such prestigious museum collections as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Institute of Contemporary Art/​Boston; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Camille Blatrix (b. 1984, France) lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2011. Blatrix has an upcoming solo exhibition at Balice Hertling, Paris (2021). He has recently presented solo exhibitions at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2021, 2017); Kunsthalle Basel (2020); Fondation Hermès, Brussels (2019); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2019); BMW Open Work, Frieze London (2019); Taylor Macklin, Zurich (2018); Balice Hertling (2017, 2014); and CCA Wattis, San Francisco (2016), among others. His work has been included in group shows at Balice Hertling, Paris (2020, 2016); Fri Art, Fribourg (2019); Musée d’art Moderne de Paris (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie, Sérignan (2018); and Hessel Museum of Art at CSS Bard, New York (2018). In 2014, he received the Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, and in 2015 he participated in the Lyon Biennale. Notable public acquisitions include: Pinault Foundation, Paris, France; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; CNAP, France; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon.