Christian Rex van Minnen and Ken Sortais Explore Monstrous Beauty in 'L'or mord l'os'

The creatures of L'or mord l'os (gold bites bone) stand on the border between beautiful and grotesque. Staged at cadet capela in Paris, the duet exhibition spotlights the works of Christian Rex van Minnen and Ken Sortais, bound by their interests in the unsightly. Through their respective practices, the artists reintroduce classical techniques into the arc of contemporary art in a magnetic display of (in)human bodies.Inspired by techniques of the Dutch Golden Age, van Minnen's paintings render i...