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UNFOLD
GORDON CHEUNG
ROSIE LEVENTON
BRIGHID LOWE
EMMA MCNALLY
ABIGAIL REYNOLDS
TOVE STORCH
SARAH WOODFINE
26 June– 2 August 2009
Private View: Thursday 25 June,
6-9pm
The connotations associated with paper refer
systematically to the idea of retranscription; writtings and
drawings being the retranscription of voices and thoughts
and more widely of a certain reality. Through a range of differents
practices and investigative approaches, Unfold questions a
creative and explorative process which has the particularity
of stepping, conceptually or concretely, from two dimensional
mediums into a three dimensional space. These “new types
of spatial fields” consecutively play and emphasize
the virtual aspect of the “drawing process”, the
physical nature of its material (carbon, paper) and techniques
often associated to paper such as cutting, collage, folding;
and therefore focusing on an interest in the physical world
surrounding us.
Abigail Reynolds works with trajectories,
networks and ordering systems. As a starting point she sets
in motion a system and set of processes that result in a form
being created. She works with materials to bring fugitive
knowledge and connections into the immediacy of physical experience.
The series of collages “The Universal Now” plays
with the idea of puzzle-like quality of something being thought-through.
Splicing and joining images issued from second hand tourist
guides, atlases and other photographs of the last century,
Reynolds then cuts the paper in order to be able to fold it;
pushing upwards and outwards. These new three dimensional
objects go on to play with the viewer’s perception due
to the perspective created by the grid and the changing and
moving of the construction. (Abigail Reynolds is represented
by Seventeen gallery).
Brighid Lowe uses a wide range of situations, materials and
scale from site-specific installations to small, single photographs
through which a new reading is encouraged. Central to Lowe's
work is the idea of montage or assemblage, in which a juxtaposition
of elements disrupts the context in which it is inserted.
Recent work has also included the use of text, in various
formats, collected from our daily surrounding.
The artist’s interest in the intersection of the virtual
and the material is developed through a series of ongoing
works called “Rain Drawings”. Using rain to interrupt
a repetitive surface, the artist explains that the intention
of this series is to set a concrete space against other imagined
spaces or systems. In the drawing, repeated horizon lines
are hand drawn onto the paper, which is then exposed to rainfall
- the original linear marks then record the material, yet
retaining the romantic space of the rain.
Emma McNally investigates the possibilities of semiotic connections
and disconnections through a visually and conceptually dense
use of pencil on paper. Her large and small-scale drawings
offer themselves to the viewer as surfaces or sites for rhythmic
relations of graphite marks disruptively connected in gatherings,
collisions, swirls and dispersals that are both geometric
and chaotic.
Her drawings lead us into worlds whose ramifications and layered
works recall different essences of reality from the micro
cosmos to the macro cosmos; her work also suggesting aerial
views, geological formations, oceanic charts, disease transmissions,
animal migratory routes as molecule structures and black holes.
(1)
Gordon Cheung’s psychedelic-coloured paintings reveal
an apocalyptic vision of our globalized world. Through a mixed
medium of spray paint, oil, acrylic, pastels, newspaper and
ink, Cheung is interested in the way we move between the physical
world and the virtual realities of communications, technology,
global finance and the internet. Cheung depicts artificial
spaces, including epic landscapes informed by imagery such
as science-fiction and 19th century romantic painting. “I
use the Financial Times newspaper stock listings as I think
of the stock market as a global dream-world that literally
flows through all of us. This for me is a contemporary form
of landscape from where I take inspiration and fuse images
from the Internet on computer before printing directly onto
sections of the stock listings to jigsaw back together on
canvas.“ (2)
Rosie Leventon makes indoor and outdoor sculptural installations
using a broad variety of recycled materials. All of Leventon's
work however is grounded in a sensitive concern for the natural
environment and how we use it. She sees her work as a way
of interweaving a kind of personal archaeology with the archaeology
of contemporary society and the physical archaeology of places,
incorporating elements of surprise and humour.
Made with Paperbacks, the tower refers to suburban social
housing - symbolising a space where large numbers of people
gather without however being able to see, from an outside
observation, any traces of life other than small spots of
light.
Sarah Woodfine trained as a sculptor, which is evident in
her approach to landscape, architecture and optical illusion
- all being recurring themes in her work. Her drawings are
often constructed as self-contained three-dimensional worlds
reminiscent of architectural models and of children’s
toys such as cut-out card castles and toy theatres. Each element
is drawn in pencil with a precision and clarity that suggest
a perfectly observed reality, but also conjure up the obsessive
hallucinatory character of a dream or fantasy. Accessible
and intimate, these scenes are made up of fragments and clues
which invite viewers to invent their own stories.
Tove Storch combines virtual and physical aspects of the world
in order to create objects which belong to a third kind of
spatiality. She examines sculptural presence and spatial experience
by asking questions such as : How does a form, volume or shape
appear? - What are the formal rules for creating a sculpture?
Storch’s sculptures are static while deeply engaged
with movement. She investigates how sound or movement would
look physically. Fragility and transience are found in all
of her attempts to make three dimensional objects. The works
are at once concrete, physical and real but at the same time
transparent, floating, absurd and imaginary.
(1) See Ana Balona de Oliveira Fields,
Charts, Soundings (Essay), January 2008
(2) Interview of Gordon Cheung in MYARTSPACE>BLOG / http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2007/11/art-space-talk-gordon-cheung.html,
Nov 07
Abigail Reynolds lives and works in London, UK. Solo shows:
The Universal Now, Seventeen Gallery, London (2009); ShapeShift:
Landscape in motion, Durlston castle, Dorset, UK (2007) /
Group shows: Embedded, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK (2008);
Tatton Park Biennial, Parabola, UK (2008); Jardin d’acclimation,
Villa Arson, Nice, France (2008); From a Distance, Wallspace,
New York (curated by Vincent Honore) (2007); The Islanders,
Nettie Horn, London (2007); NEVERODDOREVEN, Serpentine Gallery,
London (2007); Behemoth, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London (2007);
Day to Day Data, Danielle Arnaud London (2006)
Brighid Lowe lives and works in London, UK.
Solo shows: Jerwood Artists Platform, Jerwood Space, London
(2004); Archives de la Critique d'art commission for symposium
and publication, France (2001); Unedited Confessions, Galerie
Vox, Montreal, Canada (2001) / Group shows: Embedded, Gimpel
Fils gallery, London, UK(2008);Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007,
Jerwood Space, London, then touring (2007-08); Paulo Post
Futurum, Lokaal 01/Breda’s Museum, Breda, Holland (2007);
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London (2004); New Religious Art
1992 – 2002, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool and Henry
Peacock Gallery, London (2002); Intelligence: New British
Art 2000, Tate Britain, London (2000)
Rosie Leventon lives and works in London,
UK. Exhibitions and commissions: Concrete and Glass, Shoreditch
Town Hall, London (2008); Et Pendant ce Temps..., NETTIE HORN,
London (2008); Parallax, Fieldgate Gallery, London (2008);
Eyestorm (opp. Tate Modern), (2007); Queens House, National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Undercurrent, Fabrica, Brighton
(2007); International Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre,
Stourbridge (2004); Royal Society of British Sculptors (2000-2001);
Commission for the garden of Mrs Anne Wood CBE, Atrium Gallery,
Price Waterhouse Coopers, London (2001)
Emma Mcnally lives and works in London, UK.
Solo shows: Fields, Charts, Soundings, T1+2 Gallery, London
(2008) / Group shows: Avatar of Sacred Discontent, 9 Hillgate,
T1+2 Gallery/ Flora Fairbairn Projects, London (2007); Cannibal
Ferox, T1+2/ Paradise Row, London, UK (2006); The Constant
of Variation 2, T1+2 Gallery, London (2001); The n°8 Bus,
T1+2 Gallery, London (2001)
Gordon Cheung lives and works in London,
UK. Solo shows: The Promised Land, Jack Shainman Gallery,
New York USA (2009); TECHNOPHOBIA, Harris Museum, Preston
UK (2008); Wilderness of Mirrors, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt,
Germany (2008); God is on Our Side, Unosunove Gallery, Rome
Italy (cat) (2007); Heart of Darkness, Thomas Cohn Gallery,
Sao Paulo, Brazil (2006) / Group shows: The Future Can Wait,
Truman Brewery - Ellis Rumley Projects, London (2008); PS:
Parsing Spirituality Affirmation Arts, New York City, USA
(2008); Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum &
Sculpture Garden, Washington USA (2007); Fash n Riot, Photographer's
Gallery, London
Sarah Woodfine lives and works in London,
UK. Solo shows: Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway (2007);
The Drawn Curtain, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London
(2006); Dorman Museum Middlesbrough, UK (2003); Five Years,
Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London (2000)/ Group shows:
The Beguiling ... , Bury St Edmunds Gallery (2008); isobar,
Fieldgate Gallery (2007); Snowdomes, National Glass Centre,
Sunderland, UK (2006); Cloud & Vision, Museum of Garden
History, London (2005); Staged, Danielle Arnaud contemporary
art, London (2005); The Jerwood Drawing Prize (2004)
Tove Storch lives and works in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Vienna
(Austria). Solo shows: The Weakest Link, Stedefreund, Berlin;
KBH Kunsthal, Krabbesholm Højskole, Copenhagen, Denmark
(2008); Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen,
Denmark (2008); Gallery Kirkhoff, Copenhagen, Denmark (2007);
Superhorst, offspace Berlin, Germany (2006) / Group shows:
Et Vintereventyr, Gl. Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark (2009); The
Weakest Link, Stedefreund, Berlin, Germany (2008); Reduced,
Karma International, Zürich, Switzerland (2008); Pimp
my walls, Stefan Schuster, Strelitzerstraße 59, Berlin,
Germany (2007); The Lab, INTO POSITION, Bauernmarkt 1, Vienna,
Austria. Curated by Severin Dünser (2007)
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DANIELLE HORN
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TONY TAGLIANETTI
Director
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MARIE FAVIER
Assistant Director & Curator
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