CURATORIAL PROJECTS ARCHIVE / AIR GUITAR & TWO TEASPOONS
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Wed-Sat 11-6, (Mon and Tue by appt)
Old Street / Liverpool StreetCurated with Brooke Lynn McGowan BISCHOFF/WEISS
95 Rivington St, EC2A 3AY
020 7033 0309
Artists:
Sarah Bridgland, Aisling Hedgecock, Antonia Grant, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Flore Nove-Josserand, Racheal Pengilley, Richard Woods
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Bringing into contrast, conversation and collision the work of several artists, the exhibition seeks to augment perception and construe narrative through the overlapping of the objects present.‘Air guitar’ reflects the indeterminate materiality of the works within the show, existing as much through phenomenological readings as through lasting physicality. ‘Two teaspoons’ enacts the visual resemblance and chemical contradiction of sugar and salt, brought together in the installation work of Racheal Pengilley and Antonia Grant, composed in a suspended bridge, deceptive glass, and two teaspoons, one of sugar, one of salt.‘It’s still Rock ‘n’ Roll to me, or so’ said Billy Joel. Centrally located in the upper gallery, a series of raised sections of floorboard restructure Richard Woods’ otherwise all-encompassing floors and their descriptions of class, counterfeit and nostalgia. Their repeated motif and saturated colour provoke association with the optical distortion found in the work of Flore Nove-Josserand. Her works mix scale with recurring pattern creating two-fold miniature and magnified works that warp, twist, turn and invert. Outlining an economical use of geometric form, the cut colorfield bunting of New York artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy reflects, in its simplicity, the intricate and obsessively detailed minuscule paper sculptures of Sarah Bridgland. Cut from books, packaging and magazines, Bridgland’s works are compelling vignettes that whilst owing to past histories, present pertinently informed contemporary narratives.One lump or two? In the lower gallery, the unstable and fragmentary polystyrene balls, glue and pigment of Aisling Hedgecock’s work respond to the open narrative of the exhibition and communicate with the organic installation work, whilst embodying the physical and conceptual contradictions of the works located on the upper floor. The amorphous structures that she creates induce readings of stone or coral-like vestiges positioning her work somewhere between the tangible and the indefinable, the natural and the artifice.
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