Red Sea brings together works by Gideon Rubin, Liat Yossifor, Hanns Kunitzberger, Imi Knoebel, Aida Tomescu and Tomislav Nikolic.

Each of these painters, some more candidly than others, accept the emotional capacity that colour can deliver. Some painters may say that ‘colour chooses them rather than they choose it’ and that decisions about colour are equally decisions about form and structure. Well, whatever the nature or direction of this transaction between painter and colour is, whatever the express intent in ‘using’ red is, having taken up that pigment it would be disingenuous to not acknowledge that is likely to deliver clear visceral impact for the viewer, not least because of the associations it has collected along the way.

Having said that, whilst this exhibition doesn’t seek to place the fervid capacity of red front and centre, it does quietly underline the fact that red can inflame the composition and that there is a chromatic imperative that red communicates, and no amount of disclaimer can make red’s authority feel blue.