![](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/imported-exhibition-images/Darren-Almond-Nikk%C3%B2-Fall-2021-high-res.jpg?w=960&h=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1681307504&s=b0801ff092084d726328af9c2605f553 960w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/imported-exhibition-images/Darren-Almond-Nikk%C3%B2-Fall-2021-high-res.jpg?w=1280&h=960&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1681307504&s=8d721b0c195cd2e771004603df9724fa 1280w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/imported-exhibition-images/Darren-Almond-Nikk%C3%B2-Fall-2021-high-res.jpg?w=1600&h=1200&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1681307504&s=e08dda854be575653a10c5973856c101 1600w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/imported-exhibition-images/Darren-Almond-Nikk%C3%B2-Fall-2021-high-res.jpg?w=1944&h=1458&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1681307504&s=010989625c8f65c7fdbaecf5845a0eb9 1944w)
Darren Almond | Full Circle
Darren Almond
Full Circle
4 October – 14 November 2021
‘Full Circle’, a new group of paintings by Darren Almond, takes the four seasons as a given structure for conceptual abstraction. Almond looks to nature and the constructs of time, contrasting the modern numerical quantification of time with a more ancient, celestial rhythm.
With these ‘landscapes’, Almond expands and extends the language of his earlier works with the addition of a compositional counterpart. In these new paintings diagonal batons of colour now appear to rain across the picture plane, a binary action that ‘redefines spatial awareness’. As the artist states, ‘two sides of a limitless logic are now drawn together and united through the nature of vision’.
![An installation shot with two Darren Almond paintings hung in a corner](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/1-jj72310-003.jpg?w=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612040&s=f8cc2887ce85c57ab9fb14cac1fc3357 720w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/1-jj72310-003.jpg?w=960&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612040&s=15f1c9636f09528a574f73850714ffba 960w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/1-jj72310-003.jpg?w=1280&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612040&s=be600bde358beee41e9935d35b0be97a 1280w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/1-jj72310-003.jpg?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612040&s=655e9a5e598166d3cd7adaae205a2f94 1600w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/1-jj72310-003.jpg?w=2360&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612040&s=f53ab7bad56615891a6e355e0bd2db73 2360w)
![An installation shot with two Darren Almond paintings hung in a corner](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/3.-jj72310-001.jpg?w=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=0caabd21216b2fbe8ac9730c7896b737 720w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/3.-jj72310-001.jpg?w=960&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=c2ec1627a45fbc7dcb1fecae26e55e02 960w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/3.-jj72310-001.jpg?w=1280&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=7217cf36b1e7ce6d0c34911e25c8d6e7 1280w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/3.-jj72310-001.jpg?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=db8f8b58653c49829cc4448675246fe5 1600w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/3.-jj72310-001.jpg?w=2360&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=ec2a169abda5c0b993fed6bf6ddb04ee 2360w)
![A cropped image of Darren Almond's photograph 'Fifteen Minute Moon' (2000)](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/4.-darren-almond-fifteen-minute-moon-2000-medium-res-crop.jpg?w=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=d348c06da2de94b6e8a435d08ade41f5 720w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/4.-darren-almond-fifteen-minute-moon-2000-medium-res-crop.jpg?w=960&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=9e39fac38097e9fe42d6ad159e158ac2 960w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/4.-darren-almond-fifteen-minute-moon-2000-medium-res-crop.jpg?w=1280&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=3a9d33fe9b548b018e486ab8d1b95bb4 1280w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/4.-darren-almond-fifteen-minute-moon-2000-medium-res-crop.jpg?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=6ea6cc2b075380da46f447a59b08c367 1600w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/4.-darren-almond-fifteen-minute-moon-2000-medium-res-crop.jpg?w=2360&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=e4e54b67713315c747e821d8f4600338 2360w)
‘There are two things...the eye for the vision of nature and the brain for the logic of organized sensations.’
![Digital image of Paul Cézanne's painting 'Foliage (recto)' (1895)](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/5.-cezanne-foliage.jpg?w=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=206d667857a935b517516be26321e96e 720w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/5.-cezanne-foliage.jpg?w=960&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=c42018d68e293e791d3cd865c685c9ae 960w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/5.-cezanne-foliage.jpg?w=1280&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=8efb61eb272cd2368e699b3a50e7c5e6 1280w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/5.-cezanne-foliage.jpg?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=c4b16759804b0e8c83518b71e7ffda85 1600w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/5.-cezanne-foliage.jpg?w=2360&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=e27d5a3b744871c756648381d24c77bb 2360w)
Paul Cézanne, Foliage (recto), 1895
Watercolor and pencil on paper, Collection of MoMA, New York
Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Scala, Florence
Darren Almond
Mont Sainte-Victoire (Pink Moon), 2021
Almond's fragmented numerical integers, as drawn from base ten (the reductive method of assigning a place value to numbers), are now freed from the conceptual rigours which were previously informed by order and logic. Combined with cascading accents of colour that appear to float across the grid of canvases, the compositions are informed by the representation of nature in Japanese aesthetics and its ability to capture seasonal change and the sublime landscape − the very essence of beauty. Treating the grid as a gateway to the abstract and numbers as the conduit of a ‘common language’, Almond’s paintings are an abstract field of representation, a codified pattern rooted in memory and sensorial experience, and the artist’s own encounters with the landscape.
![A photographic image of a zen rock garden](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/6.-img_0245.jpg?w=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=25f446fdd8262ef9a28aa828e239c46b 720w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/6.-img_0245.jpg?w=960&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=8e817c2425c661b33fa12f419b2846ac 960w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/6.-img_0245.jpg?w=1280&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=523d00d1410c6f14891f192f4320d52b 1280w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/6.-img_0245.jpg?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=9e0097bc5dd47837c068a4a42e6a7b85 1600w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/6.-img_0245.jpg?w=2360&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=fce3528fb5eb50303f995421e94d6c66 2360w)
‘There are many ways of seeing, but the truest and best is with intuition, for it takes in the whole, whereas the intellect only takes in a part. Pattern is born when one reproduces the intuitively perceived essence.’
![A digital image of a Japanese scroll, cropped to highlight a detail of a red circle over what looks like a foggy body of water](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/7.-scroll.jpg?w=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=26a564f3bc44bb3df9db372bd24ee41d 720w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/7.-scroll.jpg?w=960&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=be12dfee1b400cc0070174856328bf85 960w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/7.-scroll.jpg?w=1280&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=aae0a16eaa7f0ec4fe066b29727c3c65 1280w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/7.-scroll.jpg?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=0403f27f22ad1939a27b24c29dba5555 1600w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/7.-scroll.jpg?w=2360&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=969ac3e5c5da2d80a2503f389fd9a806 2360w)
Japanese scroll (detail), date unknown, artist's collection
A third element enters the ‘timeframe of reading when looking at these paintings’. Across their surfaces' Almond has applied and burnished precious metals and alloys that are integral to the compositions. These elements reference the tradition of icon painting and also the conflicting ideas of wealth, power and spirituality. The very nature of these materials is such that any glimmer of ambient light situates the paintings in real time, so their surfaces operate at that almost imperceivable, liminal distance between memory and the present.
![A photo of forest trees with red and orange leaves and what looks like a stream running through the middle](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/8.-fullmoon-tochigi.jpg?w=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=3562e5398415cbfbdc3a4bb41990143c 720w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/8.-fullmoon-tochigi.jpg?w=960&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=b4e762c1bd1163dcec6e16ddfe1337a2 960w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/8.-fullmoon-tochigi.jpg?w=1280&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=f7c077debc153b9ecf57658dcfe62799 1280w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/8.-fullmoon-tochigi.jpg?w=1476&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=9130dc59b2e8b09a898849a97968c14d 1476w)
Although no one has yet seen them fall, The colourful maple leaves in the mountains are the gold brocade of the nights.
Darren Almond
Nikkò Fall, 2021
![A cropped image of Darren Almond's 'Fullmoon Baltic Horizon' (2015)](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/9.-darren-almond-fullmoon-baltic-horizon-2015-high-res-crop.jpg?w=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=4944fe9c198d4d714e6cb9319d866f02 720w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/9.-darren-almond-fullmoon-baltic-horizon-2015-high-res-crop.jpg?w=960&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=df8f32cabd162a39f54a9ab76c2ef574 960w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/9.-darren-almond-fullmoon-baltic-horizon-2015-high-res-crop.jpg?w=1280&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=0d1f8ac762816a9bdf70e87bbf81d758 1280w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/9.-darren-almond-fullmoon-baltic-horizon-2015-high-res-crop.jpg?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=ce9710da8e64e35274de0b99dc66b208 1600w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/9.-darren-almond-fullmoon-baltic-horizon-2015-high-res-crop.jpg?w=2360&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=8b26815f00805571c57fc704d0550213 2360w)
‘The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct.’
![A detail of a Darren Almond painting featuring diagonal marks in different colours](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/10.-darren-almond-full-circle-white-cube-online-presentation-1-october-14-november-2021-medium-res-2.jpg?w=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=5338a91657088e2bba3b565ba3ee51fb 720w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/10.-darren-almond-full-circle-white-cube-online-presentation-1-october-14-november-2021-medium-res-2.jpg?w=960&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=7892ac618acd4170362660c93a03098b 960w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/10.-darren-almond-full-circle-white-cube-online-presentation-1-october-14-november-2021-medium-res-2.jpg?w=1280&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=814e8c848c0944fa594a48813d13a9ad 1280w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/10.-darren-almond-full-circle-white-cube-online-presentation-1-october-14-november-2021-medium-res-2.jpg?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=317db0555d2e2f0ab522f2e31010b82e 1600w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/10.-darren-almond-full-circle-white-cube-online-presentation-1-october-14-november-2021-medium-res-2.jpg?w=2360&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=351a4d6c81360d4e58b0a38c7d6d07f6 2360w)
![Portrait of the artist, Darren Almond](https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/11.-portrait.jpg?w=720&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=2407428ed309139be0b7e9e3fbec1d7e 720w, https://white-cube.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/uploads/Exhibitions/Online-Exhibitions/2021/Darren-Almond-Full-Circle/11.-portrait.jpg?w=791&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop&crop=focalpoint&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&dm=1715612039&s=42f9632766440aaa46d0ff5dbfdb7fbd 791w)
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