27-11-2016 14:10 via theartnewspaper.com

The telecoms bigbwig who picked up a paintbrush

It is the last chance to catch a show of works by budding artist Philipp Rudolf Humm at Riflemaker gallery in London (Being and Time; until 28 November). The Belgian-German practitioner draws on the Renaissance and Pop art in his playful figurative works that reference Botticelli and Edouard Manet. The latter looms large in Adulation (2016) which looks to the 1863 masterpiece Olympia. Jostling, analysing, photographingher voyeuristic audience is reminiscent of that that surrounds the Mona Lisa a
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