Amongst some of the newest faces in Myth-Making, HOFA presents Fabio Viale, who uses classic and iconic references which have been eternalised in time and mythology only to displace and fracture them. In Kouros, Viale imitates a tattooing process rather than simply painting on to the marble, a decision which endows the works with overwhelming realism. By distorting universal iconography, the artist challenges existing preconceptions and contemporary social norms.

Consumed by dark desaturated colour pallets, Dean Fox’s haunting paintings explore the grandeur and complexity of classical themes in art and reinvent them in the contemporary. Erasure and minimalism interplays with familiar narratives here. Fox, heavily inspired by the old masters finds a way to balance the classic beauty of form with crushing abstraction of the contemporary. Rewriting myths and legends of the past in unifying hues he brings out the beauty in the sinister and disturbing.