With his first solo exhibition under the Pilar Corrias banner, titled “Orders of Magnitude,” Sholto Blissett constructs fictional landscapes within the sterile silence of Savile Row that echo far beyond the reaches of time and geography. This debut meeting since the announcement of his representation in 2025 reopens the discussion on humanity’s intricate and sometimes uncanny relationship with nature through the lens of magnitudes. These imaginary worlds, which blend the peaceful contours of traditional landscape painting with surrealist and magical realist elements, invite the audience into spaces without a fixed geography, forcing them to abandon established ideas about wilderness, wildlife, and perception. In Blissett’s universe, no object, environment, or human presence holds meaning in isolation; everything exists through its proximity to others and the context it creates—effectively using scale as a method of meaning-making.
The compositions in the exhibition are layered with a sense of magnitude that climbs from the proximity of foreground vegetation, which evokes a desire to touch, toward deep caverns and colossal skies. This visual hierarchy offers the viewer a familiar layout on one hand, while leaving them with a jarring sense of awe in the face of overwhelming vastness on the other. In these scenes where illusion is used as a tool, shallow puddles whisper an illusion of boundless depth, while skies appear trapped within surfaces, promising physically impossible yet perceptually limitless spaces. The treatment of darkness as both a dense and expansive void draws the viewer toward a visually unprovable depth, blurring the distinction between matter and image. Blissett’s brush handles nature not merely as a physical form, but as a residue of the emotional and intellectual history we have accumulated upon it for centuries; thus, the landscape becomes a record of how concepts such as beauty, tranquility, and wildness take shape in our perception. This endless tension between intimacy and immensity can be explored at Savile Row until May 2, 2026.
Exhibition Details:
- Artist: Sholto Blissett
- Exhibition: Orders of Magnitude
- Venue: Pilar Corrias, Savile Row, London
- Dates: Running until May 2, 2026
- Key Themes: Scale as a narrative tool, magical realism, and the psychology of landscape.
