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Fiona Banner
dal 19/9/2002 al 2/11/2002
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19/9/2002

Fiona Banner

Frith Street Gallery, London

Frith Street Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent sculptures, drawings and prints by Fiona Banner. The exhibition demonstrates Banner's on-going fascination with language and how it appears around us in the urban environment. In her new works, she continues to examine the relationship between words and imagery, language and experience.


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Frith Street Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent sculptures, drawings and prints by Fiona Banner. The exhibition demonstrates Banner's on-going fascination with language and how it appears around us in the urban environment. In her new works, she continues to examine the relationship between words and imagery, language and experience.

The ground floor galleries are scattered with 3 dimensional insults, a list of slurs compiled by the artist from personal experience. For Banner these terms of frustration and exasperation have an immediacy or liveliness, they signify disappointment, they're infantile, they're the opposite of love, occurring in the moments before language breaks down, their blunt sentiment is echoed in the work's very basic mode of production.

The large graphite work Black Blind takes the form of a walk-in drawing or space confuser, like the curtain screening off the x-rated section in a video store. This intensely worked pencil drawing is slashed to form a vertical blind. The many lines of which it is comprised are consumed by the sheer scale to become a physical entity. The silvery surface is elusive and untouchable, yet seductive, its silky sheen reminiscent of hair.

Two neons - Spell 1 and Spell 2 are made from the smashed words of discarded neon signs. Because it contains a mixture of highly toxic gases and chemicals this fragile material once broken is seldom repaired. Here they have been reformed into shapes reminiscent loops or thought bubbles they regenerate language both physically and metaphorically.

Fiona Banner is one of the four short listed artists in this year's Turner Prize and her work can be seen in The Turner Prize Exhibition at Tate Britain from 30 October until 5 January 2003. She has also been commissioned to create a large- scale public art-work adjacent to London's new City Hall, this will be completed in July 2003. The first monograph dedicated to the artist's work with texts by critic Michael Archer, artist and curator Patricia Ellis and curator Katrina Brown, will available in September. BANNER, is published by Dundee Contemporary Arts, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein and Revolver and will be available at the gallery.

Image: Fiona Banner 'Spell (2)' 2002 neon light 85 x 86 cm

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