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14/6/2012

Fiona Burke & Marzia Rossi

David Dale Gallery & Studios, Glasgow

David Dale Gallery & Studios are pleased to present an exhibition of new work by artists Fiona Burke and Marzia Rossi.

Although both artists work under the auspices of painting, and the long shadow cast by its history, Burke and Rossi’s practices differ greatly. Diametric in approach, application and scale, their work is separated along clear lines. Explosions of colour are set against muted greys, while pigment thrown to the floor sits uneasily against a line of oil on board. However, this exaggerated contradiction cannot help but lead to a similar outcome of reification. Both artists’, in working through inherited histories of representation and perception arrive at points frozen in time - Burke through her reworking of museological artifacts, and Rossi with gestural eruptions of paint suspended motionless. Navigating through petrified examples of painting’s accumulated history, Burke and Rossi’s heterogeneous practices hint at a commonality of ornamentation as an approach to hermeneutics.

Like Perseus entering Medusa’s lair – ornamented with hundreds of confrontations turned statuesque – he navigates and takes shelter behind all those stoned singulars. Without their knowing, all those who came before become component-like and build up the properties of the subject’s possible (non)perception of the object’s accumulated history (Medusa being the object).1

Emerging from the combination of their practices is a composition - an additive process to discern less, ever lesser, from the knowledge we bring to painting. Be it the additive spaces that subtract from the source images of Burke’s paintings, or Rossi’s reduction of painting to powdered pigments that can only act to cosmetically conceal the historical lines of unending elaboration. A conclusion is reached, of Burke and Rossi ornamenting us away from our sometimes-tedious relation to such a ubiquitous medium. So far away that it calls our attention back again in order to re-veil what we have always seen. A subject obscured through continually refreshed participation.

Burke’s practice is concerned with painting’s syntax and its relation to themes of history, memory and representation. In exploring the illusory and limited space of representation, from the portrait or still life to the space of museum display, Burke employs a process of reconfiguring archive images from museum collections. Through editing, erasing and concealing, objects become fragmented, isolated, and incomplete, yet grounded through the painted space.

Rossi has described her practice as “looking for”, a pursuit oscillating between a desire to possess - or to destroy - that which is sought after. Her process concentrates on finding a balance between material presentation and performative suspension. A suspension drawing parallels with the final scene in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point, in which the slow-motion explosion is akin to objects starting to blossom, flowerlike, into abstracted forms against a blue sky background. Rossi works thematically with this scenario, inserting a subjective - or intuitive - pause in the action.

The thin gap between an intentional starting point and all possible incidental ending points marks a time lapse. An idea starts to materialise by overlaying, or explodes through the matter and means used. However, her practice should not be interpreted as a performative re-enactment, but, instead, as a continual form of ritual enacted from the contingencies brought out in the exhibition space.

1 Darren Tesar, excerpt of text to accompany exhibition, 2012

Fiona Burke, born 1985 Ireland, lives and works in Glasgow. Burke graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with a BFA in 2007, and received her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2010. Selected exhibitions include: The Wood Between the Worlds, Occupy Space, Limerick, Ireland, 2012; Definite Article, Artnews Projects c/o Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2010; Say What What Way, ShopAt34, London, 2010; and Eat Your Heart Out, Kuhturm, Leipzig, Germany 2008.

Marzia Rossi, born 1984, lives and works in Milan. Rossi received her MFA from Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Milan in 2010. Selected exhibitions include: Untitleds, with Enza Galantini, MARS (Milan Artist Run Space), Milan, Italy, 2012; Personal effectsonsale, Esprit Nouveau Le Corbusier pavilion, Bologna, Italy, 2011; Chiralità I-II, Riss(e), Milan, Italy, touring to Antico convento delle Agostiniane, Monte Carasso , Switzerland, 2011; Coup de calcaire, AtelieRnaTional, Marseille, France, 2011; Hitch Hike | Geh8 + MARS (Milan Artist Run Space), CARS (Cusio Artist Run Space), Omegna, Italy, 2011; and Roaming If space means nothing, Condotto C, Rome, Italy, 2010.
Selected artist residencies include: Residency Triangle France, La Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, 2011; Résidence Suddenly, Beauchery-Saint-Martin, France, 2011; and Residency Hitch Hike a Project, CARS (Cusio Artist Run Space), Milan, Italy, 2011

David Dale Gallery & Studios is an artist led organisation with charitable status based in the east end of Glasgow. Established in 2009, David Dale Gallery & Studios hosts an innovative year round exhibitions and events programme that promotes pioneering contemporary visual art. David Dale Gallery & Studios also provides artist studio spaces within a supportive peer group community. The organisation has a commitment to providing opportunities and supporting the development of early career contemporary visual artists, curators and writers.
David Dale Gallery & Studios are supported by: Awards for All, Creative Scotland, Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Life.

Image: Marzia Rossi, untitled_15 (Giotto’s explosion), pigments, dimensions variable, La Friche Belle de Mai, 2011. Courtesy: Triangle France

For more information please contact Max Slaven: max@daviddalegallery.co.uk

Preview: Friday 15/06/12 | 19:00 – 21:00

David Dale Gallery & Studios
161 Broad Street, Bridgeton - Glasgow G40 2QR
Open: Friday – Sunday | 12:00 – 17:00, or by appointment

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