Denzil Forrester’s Night Strobe: a disco extravaganza

The Grenada-born artist concocts a dazzling encapsulation of east London’s buoyant 80s music scene
Dancefloor energy beams every which way in Denzil Forrester’s 1985 painting, less from the disco ball than the DJ’s sound system and the dancers. Fusing ephemeral and physical, its coloured lines suggest illuminating rays and dub vibrations, battering against and rumbling within the gyrating bodies. Continue reading...