Horsplay belongs to a body of work that originated with Bronkhorst’s CRACK exhibition in Dubai. This series extends his central philosophical enquiry into scale, in which scale reinterprets everything as new subject matter. The dressage horse, an animal whose entire discipline is the performance of controlled power within a confined space, becomes a quietly loaded metaphor: contained grandeur, movement restrained into elegance, wildness made legible through human choreography. The calming palette reinforces this tension between force and serenity, suggesting that what we train — in animals, in ourselves — is never fully tamed.

There is something unexpectedly unique about Horsplay. Where Werner Bronkhorst is known for placing hyperrealist miniature figures within vast, textured abstract terrains — tiny humans dwarfed by monumental painted landscapes — here he turns his acute observational eye toward the horse: powerful, poised, and rendered with the same fine-detail precision that defines his signature practice. Produced in 2026 as an original limited-edition print with archival inks on canvas, the work is hand-stretched on a wood float frame. It reflects a material sensibility that speaks directly to Bronkhorst’s conviction that surface and structure are inseparable from meaning.

A certificate of authenticity accompanies Werner Bronkhorst’s limited editions. Horsplay is a considered and highly collectable artwork, available to acquire through Dellasposa Gallery, London.