Duncan Wylie's 'Château de cartes' at Galerie Dukan et Hourdequin

Duncan Wylie's exhibition 'Château de cartes' at Galerie Dukan et Hourdequin in Marseille (March 13 to May 3, 2008) presents paintings that merge construction and collapse, chaos and structure. The artist has shifted from hyperrealism to a gestural approach, using his own photographs and internet images as source material. He layers multiple images, allowing paint accidents to interact with photographic details. Parking lots, construction sites, and building lines are partially visible beneath layers, creating architectures that depict their own ruin. Wylie's work engages with contemporary debris rather than historical ruins, linking buildings in Gaza, Beirut, Leipzig, London, and his native Harare, Zimbabwe, which suffered mass demolitions under Robert Mugabe's Operation Murambatsvina in 2005. The exhibition, curated by Guillaume Mansart, presents a dynamic yet desperate vision of global collapse and potential reconstruction.