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8/5/2003

Sense And Sensibility

Transition Gallery, London

Artists Take On Art History

Private View - Friday 9th May 6-8.30
Fri-Sun 12-6

Admission Free

Everything is graded and judged against that which has come before it and art is no exception. Each new piece of art is informed by a long art historical lineage, a pedigree that can be more creative burden than boon in the contemporary artist's never ending quest for the new.

For Sense And Sensibility: Artists Take On Art History each of the 40 invited artists have been asked to make work in response to an aspect of art history, whether it is an era, artist or artwork. Thus creating a rare opportunity for the artists to vocalise and engage with these ever present influences in a direct manner.

Hung salon style the show is curated by Paul Murphy and includes an eclectic range of work across a whole range of media. The result a microcosm of everything that has gone before churned together with contemporary themes, techniques and influences to present vital new work.

Artists showing include:

Pauline Thomas (Red Mansions prize winner 2002) presents a new video, which defines the landscape as an immense, alienating place, and is titled Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog after a painting by the German artist Casper David Friedrich Damian Le Bas the celebrated Outsider artist, takes on Arman's 1960s collection of bathroom rubbish; Condition Of Woman 1, refocusing its perspective to reflect modern man.
Scotia Luhrs' series of photographs entitled And then I Embarked on a Career as a Fine Art Photographer... plays with the relationship between art and photography within the modernist and classical traditions.
Mimei Thompson paints fractured landscapes, swirling with brushstrokes and distorted colours. For Sense and Sensibility she has used Van Gough's Sunflowers as a starting point for a new disorientating view of the world. Alex Michon shows Pollock Intervenes in Punk, A paint splattered jacket made for Joe Strummer of The Clash in 1976. ³This wasn't made as a fashion statement or to sell but as an emotive, artistic gesture. This was guerrilla clothing made for hard times'
Nicky Magliulo shows a video called Under My Thumb: The Stones, My Mum & Russell Hobbs, which she describes as Å’a quiet fugitive intervention into mid sixties art and rock'.
Nicholas Hughes' photograph Untitled #46 depicts a hanging red curtain, abstracted from any context leaving us with the pure functionality of what a curtain does ­ it conceals and it reveals.

Other artists include: Andy Swani, Mark Croxford, Antonio Gianasi, John Clayman, Nadia Hebson, Cathy Lomax, Norbert Schoerner, Melanie Rose, Arabella Lee, Paul Murphy, Yolanda Zappaterra, Jim Payne, Marc Sibley, Clive Brandon, Isha Bøhling, Pauline Cushnie, Joel Dickens, Ollie Beck, Hans Schierl, Jason Sinnot, Roger Dilkes, Richard Dawson and Daedalus.

Contact Cathy Lomax on 07941 208566

Transition
110a Lauriston Road, London E9
07941 208566

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