Sebastiaan Bremer's Super Modern Things at Edwynn Houk Gallery reimagines Dutch floral art

At Edwynn Houk Gallery, Sebastiaan Bremer presents his exhibition, Super Modern Things, showcasing new mixed-media creations that integrate photography with painting. Each artwork is derived from historical images, particularly seventeenth-century Dutch botanical catalogs and Golden Age still life paintings. Bremer captures photographs of these reproductions to emphasize themes such as global trade, speculation, mortality, and the lasting significance of flowers. He enriches the pieces with layers of ink and acrylic, applying dots, lines, stains, and washes to produce both deliberate and instinctive marks. This exhibition furthers Bremer's investigation into floral still lifes, reflecting on beauty, mortality, value, ecology, and global exchange while bringing historical narratives into a modern context.