David Salle ‘East Wind,’ 2022 Oil and acrylic on linen 70 x 50 inches (177.8 x 127 cm) 'Old Friends: Francesco Clemente, David Salle, and Julian Schnabel' opens December 27 in St. Moritz Known for his distinctive visual syntax and sophisticated pictorial structure, David Salle orchestrates dynamic compositions that appropriate and reconstitute images in unlikely juxtapositions. His bravura paintings celebrate the complexity of painting’s plasticity and the way in which each part relates to the whole. Incorporating the language of film and cinematic techniques, Salle creates a pictorial space that is deliberately fragmented, playing with allusion and depth to create scenes layered within and behind one another, injecting humor, drama, and buoyancy. Over the course of the past four decades, his practice has consistently probed the ways by which images are recognized and perceived. A willful conductor of composition, he directs the path the viewer’s eyes move within the canvas, insisting that we participate in the construction of narrative and meaning. @david_salle Image © David Salle / ARS, New York 2022 Photo by Stefan Altenburger