Threshold
Larry Clark / Nico Tovar / Loan Verbanck
Opening: August 14, 2025
On view til August 30th
Gallery Nosco is pleased to present Threshold, an exhibition that brings together the work of Larry Clark with two younger artists, Nico Tovar and Loan Verbanck.
Nico Tovar presents images of his friends, himself, and the buildings he once frequented in New York. Rooted in shared environments and formative years, these works enter into dialogue with those of Larry Clark, resisting nostalgia with raw honesty. Using construction materials and simple transfer techniques, Tovar prioritizes immediacy over embellishment, pulling his subjects out of the digital realm and anchoring them in history.
Capturing youth culture and contemporary urban life, the images explore the tension between adolescence and city growth. Clothing, gestures, and locations serve as coded markers of youth counterculture, while Tovar moves fluidly between insider and observer, both participant and documentarian.
Blending rawness and labor with intimacy, Tovar positions his work between photography and painting. This crossover mirrors the layered realities of his subjects: resilient, present, and unfiltered.
Loan Verbanck engages with urban environments and personal history through an equally physical but materially distinct approach. Drawing from a background in graffiti and a long-standing connection to overlooked city spaces, Verbanck uses industrial materials — roofing felt, drywall, metal studs, to construct works that hover between painting and sculpture. His compositions are rough and resilient, embedded with emotional charge.
Rooted in cities like Brussels and New York, his practice explores themes of endurance, loss, and the quiet forms of strength found in everyday survival. The work is confrontational not in posture, but in its honesty — balancing destruction with construction, and impermanence with structure. These are not romanticized ruins, but lived-in surfaces, marked by use and time.
Threshold suggests not only generational transition, but shifts in how artists relate to their materials, environments, and sense of self. It also marks a turn for Gallery Nosco toward supporting a younger, more materially and socially engaged generation of artists.
