Alex Hamilton
dal 3/7/2003 al 3/8/2003
Segnalato da
3/7/2003
Alex Hamilton
T1+2 Gallery, London
Please Do Not Forget Your Surface includes recent work in which, using a mixture of photocopying and drawing superimposed over each other, Hamilton has mutated three photographs of Turner House in London.
Alex Hamilton's work revolves around practices of reading and issues of legibility. In his appropriation and détournement of familiar textual surfaces such as the newspaper page and musical stave, he brings about defamiliarisation. Using ink drawing, copper-based printing and even tearing of the paper itself, he foregrounds the physical nature of the surfaces whose subservience to the code projected onto them we usually take for granted. This gesture both scrambles the code, rendering the surfaces opaque, and, by bringing forth their materiality, begins to generate a kind of concrete poetry.
Please Do Not Forget Your Surface includes recent work in which, using a mixture of photocopying and drawing superimposed over each other, Hamilton has mutated three photographs of Turner House in London. In Hamilton's Deleuzian visual world, topoi fold out across and overtake each other, stretching and bending planar geometry, undoing perspective as they elongate cars, collapse levels and distend height and distance.
The show also includes Hamilton's newspaper prints and drawings, in which print columns reinvent themselves as objects and landscapes, a skewed map that may or may not be the territory.
Hamilton has exhibited widely in Australia, where he has work in the National Gallery, and in Europe. Please Do Not Forget Your Surface is his first major London exhibition.
Private View: Fri 4 July 7pm - 9pm
Wed  Sun. 11am  6pm
t1+2artspace
4 Steward St
London E1
tel: +44(0) 7813532012