With an outsider aesthetic reminiscent of musician and painter Daniel Johnston, Leyman Lahcine is an artist whose whimsical style belies a Chapman Brothers-esque taste for the grotesque, and an ultra-personal nostalgia for the innocence and reverie of childhood. His latest exhibition at Maison Bertaux in Soho feels at once extremely authentic, playing not to the audience or the increasingly self-referential art market, but instead displaying the inner workings of a mind that…
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