Roberto Ruspoli, raised in Rome and now living and working in Paris, shows he is a man who understands aesthetics and history but does not let them weigh him down.

He works with a steady hand and a clear eye. The lines are clean and certain. The spaces are held together with a quiet discipline. He paints them with a quiet freedom that dances across an empty space where nothing is rushed.

This exhibition is made up of six works that illustrate the body of work of the most recent years. Yet one breaks from them. One where the image feels like it is forming as you look at it.

Titled “Meshes of the Afternoon”, it was inspired by the 1942 film by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid (with the same name), which itself explores the fractured subconscious through a dreamlike narrative.

This painting conveys that slow drift you feel when you start falling asleep on a warm summers afternoon. It has the sense of lying back on a sofa and slipping out of yourself, not in drama but into a trance. The older works stand firm, but here the structure loosens. It is not a rejection of what came before. As this one clearly moves, it is the next step.