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THE VELVET TOUCH

David West

Curated by Goswell Road at La Caféothèque de Paris

52 Rue de l'Hôtel de ville, 75004 Paris

Exhibition 

7 February - 21 March, 2025

Open Monday to Sunday 09h – 19h

Cocktail reception 20 February from 18h

With a special cocktail created by David West

Goswell Road curates their second solo project with David West—The Velvet Touch—at La Caféothèque de Paris in Paris' 4th arrondissement. All the works, bar one, are acrylic and glazes on velvet, dating from 2019 to 2024. They are hallucinatory, spiritual, nocturnal and sometimes hilarious.

A horse drinks a giant martini.
A slap in the face.
She’s a mess.
A miniskirt in the rain.
Canals, streets, mountains, homicide.
Off the hook.

West draws his knives and paints the light.

The velvet works begin here where they began in earnest; he started painting on velvet in 2019 and the first works in the series were shown in our Terrible Twos show that same year. 

The anomaly is a single canvas depicting Kim Salmon playing in the basement of La Mécanique Ondulatoire in 2018. This work connects to the last West solo project we presented in 2018 at Paris Internationale which focused on his music works.

On February 20th, West will create a special cocktail for the reception, which promises to be the perfect accompaniment.

Bio: David West (1958) is a US artist who has lived and worked in Paris since 2002.