Exhibitions, United Kingdom, London, 04 June 2010
STANDING ON THE FRONTIER
Private view: Friday 4th June 2010 6.30pm-9.00pm
Exhibition: Saturday 5th June until Sunday 27th June
Open: Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12pm-6pm
Madame Lillie 10 Cazenove Road Stoke Newington
CHIHO IWASE
CHRIS ROANTREE
DAVID ADKINS
EDWARD BAGENAL
EDWARD TODD
LYN GOLDSBY
NOA EDWARDS
PABLO CASTILLO
PAUL CUMMINGS
PAUL WESTCOMBE
ROBERT LOGAN
ROBERT ORCHARDSON
TAKAYUKI HARA
The images presented by the thirteen artists in this exhibition depict views taken on a figurative walk along the frontier between reality and the imagination. On this meandering journey the viewer weaves his or her way across the line that demarcates the boundary between the mundane scenery of familiar places and the surreal landscapes of the individual mind.
The trip begins with portrayals of everyday, humdrum surburbias and industrial spaces but ones which hint at something darker, of failed aspirations and the desire to escape this claustrophobic environment. Hidden amidst the picturesque landscapes lurk fantastic tales and rituals and mystical places. As the artists travel deeper towards the periphery of their thoughts, they conjure up parallel worlds, at times unstable and stormy and devoid of human presence.
Dreams form a notable reference point for the images, the artists drawing on the nightmares of the past and constructing them into human hybrids. They retreat into the world of the imagination and into their obsessions of repressed memories, unconscious thought and fantasy. Their work is violent and sexual, restless and macabre. The work fragments into a mass of organic and apocalyptic forms, as the artists unravel their subconscious thoughts through painterly and graphic gestures that struggle to climb over one another and vie for attention.
The work is decadent and obsessive. It appears real and is dutifully imagined with intense detail, so that the forms allude to something that could exist. What these artists all have in common is the ability to transform the imaginary into something tangible; an ordering of the subconsciousness into something we can almost recognize and therefore comprehend. The viewer is seduced into believing that the threshold between reality and the imagination can be bridged.
Private view: Friday 4th June 2010 6.30pm-9.00pm
Exhibition: Saturday 5th June until Sunday 27th June
Open: Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12pm-6pm
Madame Lillie 10 Cazenove Road Stoke Newington
CHIHO IWASE
CHRIS ROANTREE
DAVID ADKINS
EDWARD BAGENAL
EDWARD TODD
LYN GOLDSBY
NOA EDWARDS
PABLO CASTILLO
PAUL CUMMINGS
PAUL WESTCOMBE
ROBERT LOGAN
ROBERT ORCHARDSON
TAKAYUKI HARA
The images presented by the thirteen artists in this exhibition depict views taken on a figurative walk along the frontier between reality and the imagination. On this meandering journey the viewer weaves his or her way across the line that demarcates the boundary between the mundane scenery of familiar places and the surreal landscapes of the individual mind.
The trip begins with portrayals of everyday, humdrum surburbias and industrial spaces but ones which hint at something darker, of failed aspirations and the desire to escape this claustrophobic environment. Hidden amidst the picturesque landscapes lurk fantastic tales and rituals and mystical places. As the artists travel deeper towards the periphery of their thoughts, they conjure up parallel worlds, at times unstable and stormy and devoid of human presence.
Dreams form a notable reference point for the images, the artists drawing on the nightmares of the past and constructing them into human hybrids. They retreat into the world of the imagination and into their obsessions of repressed memories, unconscious thought and fantasy. Their work is violent and sexual, restless and macabre. The work fragments into a mass of organic and apocalyptic forms, as the artists unravel their subconscious thoughts through painterly and graphic gestures that struggle to climb over one another and vie for attention.
The work is decadent and obsessive. It appears real and is dutifully imagined with intense detail, so that the forms allude to something that could exist. What these artists all have in common is the ability to transform the imaginary into something tangible; an ordering of the subconsciousness into something we can almost recognize and therefore comprehend. The viewer is seduced into believing that the threshold between reality and the imagination can be bridged.
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