Keith Tyson
dal 20/10/2011 al 25/11/2011
Segnalato da
20/10/2011
Keith Tyson
David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
"Entangled in the amber glow of a weary woven world": a solo show featuring four new works by Keith Tyson.
David Risley Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of four
new works by Keith Tyson.
Tyson’s relentlessly expansive practice, a 20-year journey that
has included drawing, painting, sculpture and large-scale
installation, may be most readily defined as an engagement with
systems. A system is a means of ordering and negotiating ideas
and things. Tyson is faithful to systems because they allow him
to be open to the infinite complexity of the world.
These systems have ranged from computers, running algorithms
that determined the precise terms of artworks to be made, to
meticulously arranged sculptural installations in which the
viewer becomes the generative agent, catalyzing narratives and
connections from inside the composition.
This exhibition marks a decision, according to the artist, to
“engage in a dialogue with the system.” It is a softening of the
rules and a turning inward inspired in equal measure by the
medium of painting and the knotted, spiraling and interconnected
life we live with modern technology——the ‘world wide web’ to
which the exhibition title obliquely refers. “Organic systems
don’t add extra cells to grow, they split,” Tyson explains,
“they get furry and more refined inside, and see their relative
position to each other from within.”
Entanglement Matrix 1 (2011), the central work on display, is a
five-foot-square lightbox derived from a 25-panel painting-in-
progress. Those 25 discrete figurative panels operate, at one
level, as sculptural installations such as Large Field Array
operated: there are chains and groupings linking the images in
lines and boxes, allowing the viewer the reassurance of
narrative. Fighting these “frozen moments,” however, is the
never-ending compulsion, a painter’s compulsion, for artistic
flourish and indulgence. Compositional, gestural and poetic
threads weave the work tighter as it becomes progressively
unresolved. Tyson describes it as an “ever-increasing dynamic,”
a desire for completeness despite our knowledge that all we are
able to generate is a tangle of potential.
“Painting is an artform that has to exist in the glow of this
ever-increasing dynamic,” the artist explains. To earn a
completed painting is to resign oneself to the unknowable forces
that illuminate it while also, always, taking comfort in the
“esoteric ritual” of dialogue that allows its creation. The
works in this exhibition shine intimately on the viewer, each
other and the artistic act. It is the tenderness of the glow,
though, warming from within, that is felt most of all.
Opening Reception: Friday October 21. 1700 – 20.00
David Risley Gallery
Bredgade 65 A - Copenhagen
Hours: wed-fri 12-17, sat 11-15
Free admission