Huxley-Parlour gallery in Marlborough, UK, announces 'All’Antica,' a group exhibition running from July 21 to September 9, 2026, featuring eight international artists: Raphael Barratt, Beau Gabriel, Natalia González Martín, Lydia Pettit, Ted Pim, Catherine Repko, Ugo Sébastião, and Dittmar Viane. The show explores how these painters draw from the visual languages of Early Modern Europe—including Northern Renaissance realism, Italian Baroque chiaroscuro, and classical mythology—to rethink contemporary painting, treating the past as a living, unstable resource for interrogation rather than nostalgia.
The exhibition matters because it highlights a growing trend among younger artists to engage critically with Western art history, reappropriating formal techniques like fresco, glazing, and skewed perspective to address contemporary issues such as trauma, body politics, and the mutability of symbolism. By bringing together diverse practices that unsettle the authority of the canon, 'All’Antica' positions historical painting traditions as a dynamic framework for twenty-first-century artistic expression, offering a fresh perspective on the dialogue between past and present in visual art.