Victor Man

David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Victor Man at the gallery’s London location. This will be the artist’s first show with David Zwirner since the announcement of his representation in 2024. Man’s paintings elude categorization, revealing varied, nonlinear references to literature, art, and poetry that transform essential elements of the human experience into visionary manifestations of color and form. Centered on the cycle of life and death, the paintings on view depict enigmatic subjects imbued with a kind of sotto voce tonality; these cryptic figures offer complex, layered readings of the fundamental trajectory of existence. Also featured will be self-portraits that wield the artist’s own likeness as an anchoring force and interrogative witness against the chaos of the world. Deeply intimate yet also divorced from all self-infatuation, these paintings serve as autoreflective testimonies of the individual’s journey through time.