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13/5/2010

New configuration of the 2010 project

Motinternational, London

2010 will be slightly different at MOT International, in that under the umbrella of a one-year experiment, the gallery will dispense with conventional programming. It is intended that through this abandonment of traditional exhibition programming the gallery will be able to react to ideas from artists and curators almost immediately, with projects merging and usurping each other in a free-form reaction to current ideas. This means that projects do not have to fit into traditional exhibition timescales, they can collide, interact and even cancel each other. Rather than than been prescribed, exhibitions are formed from the artworks' coexistence with each other.

Anna Barham's projection, Superalternating (mot), 2010 consists of daily alternating anagrams of the words 'return to Leptis Magna'. An endless loop of letters and words are projected onto a wall of the gallery. The letters in consecutive movement adopt a performative nature. The narrative perpetually unraveling comes full circle and begins again. Leptis Magna founded roughly around 1100BC was prominent city of the Roman Empire located in Al Khums, Libya. In 1818 parts of the ruins of the city were relocated to Fort Belvedere in Surrey. Effectively the ruins were rearranged on this new site not as a reconstruction, but rather in a configuration that suited their new location. Anna Barham's work was recently the subject of Frieze's May issue FOCUS feature written by Collin Perry.

Michele Lombardelli's work is characterized by uncomfortably tight space with little opportunity for physical or psychological escape. In Untitled (landscape), 2010 an underexposed black and white photograph of a mountain landscape acts as the background for a long-focused spot of white spray-paint. This small painterly gesture leaves the effect of a portal to the unknown burned through the image's horizon.
On small picture planes, Lombardelli keeps the viewer trapped in tight spaces with no light at the end of the tunnel. The viewer is reminded that death is inescapable and for this artist there is no afterlife. In the collage, Untitled Project, 2009 a cutout black blob shape floats on top of a white netting with holes painted out in black, this in turn sits on top of a black and white speckled image reminiscent of the previously referred-to floor tile. It is as if the web of time is being pulled into a black hole, the most cramped and crushing physical space imaginable. With Untitled (moquette), 2009 the work slides down the wall and slumps to the floor like a dead body. The black ink-jet print on white carpet leaves the circular pattern of a bullet fracturing a windshield. The entry point becomes a rabbit hole that only leads down. In perhaps his most telling gesture, Lombardelli unites the concept of inescapable physical space with that of the psychological in Untitled (Charles Manson), 2009, a messy black and white diagonal grid with leaky black paint and a somber and ominous figurative silhouette. Here, we see an inescapably dark collective memory linked with a psychological read—the Ego and Super Ego incapable of masking the Id.

Dan Shaw-Town's Untitled, comprises of two elements, a washing line and paper delicately saturated with graphite and spray paint. The washing line acts as a support for the paper that is draped over it in a gesture that is resistant to finality. The work resonates as a temporary moment where by each detail, the edge of the paper or the brass grommets, offer themselves as materials that manifest obliquely revealing the process of the making.

Anna Barham was born in England in 1974 and graduated from the Slade in 2001. Recent exhibitions include; 'READATGLIMPSEEN,' Arcade, London; 'With Words like Smoke', CHELSEA Space, London; 'Prisoners of the Sun', Frac IIe-de-France / Le Plateau, Paris; 'Stutter', Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London and 'Poor. Old. Tired. Horse', ICA, London.

Dan Shaw-Town lives and in New York and Graduated from Goldsmiths in 2008. Recent exhibtions include, 'The Library of Babel, In and Out of Place', 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London; 'Cabinets 5' at SE8, London; 'Drawings', Gallery-C at TEAM, New York; 'Filmic Conventions', Form Content at Zoo Art Fair and 'Pulp' at RUN Gallery, London.

Michele Lombardelli was born in Cremona, Italy in 1968. He currently lives and works in Cremona and Los Angeles, CA. Recent exhibitions include Giunge una vocde a qualcuno nel buio, AMT | Torri&Geminian, Milan, Italy; Estremi del libro d'artista, curated by Giorgio Maffei, Cripta747 gallery, Torino, Italy; A Story About the Old About Nothing About This or That, curated by Alfredo Sigolo, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles; The Triumphant ID, BCA Gallery, Mumbai, India.

Image: Michele Lombardelli Untitled (moquette) 2009, Inkjet on Carpet, 120x140 cm

Reception for the new configuration of the 2010 project Friday 14 May 6 - 9 pm

MOT International
54 Regents Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN
Open Wednesday - Saturday 11 - 6 and by appointment

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