In an age of proliferating digital imagery and technological development, painting might be expected to be losing its historical importance. The exhibition A Return to Smooth Space at The.Dot.Project in London proves the exact opposite: rather than rejecting traditional media, artists David Matthew King and Bertrand Fournier have not only embraced painting, but have also experimented with it through different approaches. Both artists employ vivid and bright colours – each brush stroke seems to be an attempt to unleash abstraction. The gallery is filled with a series of canvases occupied by abs...