Alan Brooks
dal 20/2/2013 al 29/3/2013
Segnalato da
20/2/2013
Alan Brooks
Motinternational, London
Through one hundred drawings which take the city as their subject, Brooks depicts a collective idea of an un-named urban environment. The artist's photo-litho like reproductions are obsessive in their labour and elaborately detailed.
“This is the city and I am one of the citizens, whatever interests the rest interests me.” (Walt Whitman)
Motinternational is pleased to present an exhibition by Alan Brooks.
Through one hundred drawings which take the city as their subject, Brooks depicts a collective idea of an un-named urban environment. The artist’s photo-litho like reproductions are obsessive in their labour and elaborately detailed: sourced from the internet, reportage and personal photographs, they are placed in proximity to diagrammatic, psycho-geographic and literary fragments.
Each drawing operates as an individual pictorial fiction whilst also being a part of a broader, more complex narrative dramatising the ideals and desires of the metropolitan citizen, the architecture and substructures of the urban environment and the socio-political histories that entwine the development of the city space.
The artist has taken the early graphic novel The City: A Vision in Woodcuts (1925) by the Belgian engraver Frans Masereel as a point of departure. While Masereel’s book of woodcuts revealed the dangerous, hedonistic vivacity and chaos of a Weimar era city, Brooks’ drawings render a dissonant and sprawling narrative of contemporary space.
Google City, a text by Patrick Coyle will accompany the exhibition.
Private View - 21st February 6-8pm
A reading by Patrick Coyle will take place at 7pm
Motinternational
First Floor, 72 New Bond Street, London, W1S 1RR
Open:
Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 6
and by appointment.
The gallery is closed on bank and public holidays.