Renée Levi to Paint Hayward Gallery Façade with Audemars Piguet Commission

Renée Levi will create a large-scale two-panel painting for the façade of London’s Hayward Gallery this fall. The work is co-commissioned by the Hayward Gallery and Audemars Piguet Contemporary, marking the watch brand’s art programme’s first painting commission and Levi’s first large-scale commission in the U.K. The installation runs from September 23 to November 15. Levi, born in Istanbul and based in Basel, describes her drawing as an immediate, bodily act where scale is determined by reach and movement, and the work is made in a single continuous passage without correction. The commission continues Audemars Piguet Contemporary’s support of site-specific installations at the Hayward, following previous projects by artists like Ryoji Ikeda and John Akomfrah.