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19/9/2002

Deliberate Regression

Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London

David Blandy
Milena Dragicevic
Tom Hunter
Ivan Morison
Maaike Shoorel
Mindaugas Simkus
Clara Ursitti
Vita Zaman
Curated by Vita Zaman

The show aims to map the melancholic mood that echoes in the contemporary experiences. As a trace of Romantic age this sensibility reappears through constant longing and feeling of withdrawal, gains different articulations; glorifies passionate instincts, shamelessly searches exotic spaces of fantasy, invites to regress into childish demand for the miraculous.

In Tom Hunter's photographs the dusk transforms Hackney wastelands into the dramatic fairytale setting. David Blandy video reworks the digital computer game landscape into the majestic image of the primeval woods. Milena Dragicevic's and Maaike Shoorel¹s paintings touch upon melancholia of modernist architecture as well as intimate spaces of portraits. Vita Zaman's video documents girls in a provincial town in Lithuania who are training to become exotic dancers in Saudi Arabia. Both Mindaugas Simkus and Ivan Morison explore the notion of artists as a Romantic outsider, while Clara Ursitti stages a performative narrative where passions and animal instincts rule.

A catalogue with essays by Camila Jalving and Shumon Basar will be published.

Private view: Friday 20 September 6 to 9 pm

Friday Saturday Sunday 2 - 6 pm (or by appointment).

For further information and slides/digital images please contact Danielle Arnaud on 020 7735 8292.

Image: Mindaugas Simkus video 2002

Next: Emma Bennett new paintings
Stuart Croft Rococo 55 new film
1 Nov to 15 Dec 2002

Danielle Arnaud contemporary art
123 Kennington Road London SE11 6SFTel/Fax: 00 44 (0)20 7735 8292

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