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| Ha Ha What Does This Represent? |
curated by Katrina Blannin & Francesca Simon
PV: Thursday 1st March 2012
2nd - 31st March 2012
Standpoint Gallery
45 Coronet Street
Hoxton
London
Andrew Bick / Matthew Collings & Emma Biggs / Katrina Blannin / Hazel Chalk / Ben Cove / Stewart Geddes /
Dan Hays / Vanessa Jackson / Roger Kelly / Caroline List / Gina Medcalf / Alex Gene Morrison / Carol Robertson / James Ryan / Francesca Simon / Daniel Sturgis / Trevor Sutton
A colour catalogue with an essay by David Ryan will accompany the exhibition.
Taking its title from the 1947 Ad Reinhardt cartoon, HA HA WHAT DOES THIS REPRESENT? brings together artists who consciously explore notions of abstraction. Their paintings demand an intellectual appreciation, while sometimes, but not necessarily, also appealing to the emotions. Some works literally abstract from a concrete reality, perhaps taking their essence from another field of activity, such as architecture or photography; others achieve an abstraction, or generalised idea, with a relation to the physical world; others operate from an internal point of reference. The artists in this show employ a variety of models of painting; they demonstrate different influences, painting languages and systems of working. They are reflexive, aware of developments in their own field, often painting about painting itself, commenting on the past, yet engaged by new questions about the phenomenological and psychological in contemporary experience.
A number of the artists in this exhibition use geometry or the grid, either loosely or disrupted for its dynamic on the canvas or perhaps to explore the idea of the rational in compositional systems. Gesture, if it appears, is deliberate and controlled. All are interested in process, techniques in the use of materials as well as mental calculation; often colour is key. Few, however, allow process to take over and, in fact, often offer the viewer evidence of the journey made: the decision-making, the conflict between doubt and certainty, the theories or philosophies researched and encompassed.
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| Niet Normaal |
curated by Ine Gevers & Garry Robson
Touring from Holland and Berlin with a variation in artists at each venue
Part of the Liverpool Biennial 2012
12th July - 2nd September 2012
The Bluecoat
School Lane
Liverpool
L1 3BX
Full lineup of artists to be confirmed but will include:
Bob and Roberta Smith / Imogen Stidworthy / Thomas Hirschhorn / Douglas Gordon / Louise Bourgeois
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