Lehmann Maupin Gallery is pleased to present Duet, a group exhibition curated by Sylvia Chivaratanond. Duet, featuring Michael Bauer, David Noonan and Victor Man, brings together a group of artists whose art practice is at once disparate and analogous to the current milieu of contemporary art.

The work in the exhibition deviates from typical representational portraiture, thus creating an uneasy relationship between painting, sculpture and film. Each artist's practice is varied as they set up their own dichotomies as in Michael Bauer's paintings and drawings. Bauer's (b. 1973) work appears at once to be haphazard abstract forms and mapped figurations. The paintings and drawings, although playfully sophisticated, resonate a discomfort as monstrous forms emerge from a seemingly poetic zone. Anthropormorphic figures gel with refined geometric shapes that call to mind the work by Futurists artists such as Giacomo Balla and F.T. Marinetti.