CHARLES DANBY

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CURATORIAL PROJECTS ARCHIVE / LONDON CALLING: WHO GETS TO RUN THE WORLD

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London Calling: Who Gets to Run the World 10 June – 26 July Total Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul, South Korea Philip Allen, David Batchelor, Fiona Banner, Martin Creed, Dryden Goodwin, Peter McDonald, Nathaniel Rackowe, Gary Webb I-MYU Projects and Charles Danby are pleased to present an international exhibition of ten British artists. London Calling: Who Gets to Run the World presents an interlacing of contemporary works, clustered through ideas of architectural structure, plasticised colour and the resonating flicker of the still image. Layers of paint cut the surface image of Phillip Allen’s architecturally encoded paintings, while the superimposed portraits of Dryden Goodwin’s Red Studies (2004-present) mark, against the finite image of a photograph, fluctuating, fragmented points of time. In contrast to the text-based works of Fiona Banner, transcribed cinematic sequences that function in stasis as temporary portraits or photographic stills, are the momentary shafts of static light cast out from the spliced architectural mass of Nathaniel Rackowe’s large-scale sculpture Black Shed (2008). Peter McDonald’s paintings offer flickers of a compelling world revealed through the deceptively simplified receptacles of colour, transparency and geometry, while Gary Webb’s mirrored towers, Dressed up and ready to go (2008) create transformative revisions of their reflected and immediately localised exterior environments. Martin Creed’s Shit (2008) marks an ordinariness of event and spectacle, a collective creative statement deftly removed from sensation. In completion David Batchelor’s works explore alternative points of function through the assemblage of mass-manufactured objects and readymade fixtures, objects that underpin market cultures of exchange, of manufacturing and consumption. Through its interlocking and interlacing strata, London Calling presents bound threads, tightly woven and loose-knit, as additive and reductive propositions, glimpses to a temporary present of British Art.

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