Object lessons: a poetic take on decay, a goddess drawn by a cult favorite and a rare study by Peter Blake

Copenhagen
Galerie Forsblom at Chart Art Fair
1-3 September Heavy (2017) by Toni R. Toivonen
16,000
Not for the squeamish, the young Finnish artist Toni R. Toivonen (b. 1987) creates ethereal works from grotesque means. He leaves the carcass of an animala raccoon, mouse, dog, horses or cow, which died of natural causeson a brass plate and as it decomposes, the animal etches a ghostly, vaguely discernible gesture of its form on the oxidised metal. The results are a form of vanitas, a meditation