Almine Rech Reflects on the Origins of Painting in New Group Exhibition

Everything has a beginning, so how about painting? According to legend, the origins of painting date back to a mythic tale once recounted by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, in which Dibutade's daughter, Kora of Sicyon, drew the outline of her lover's shadow in charcoal against the wall of her home before he left on a long journey. Simply done as an act of remembrance, Kora is considered the first ever painter and her own remembrance is being highlighted in a new group exhibition entitled...