Two shows
dal 28/9/2004 al 31/10/2004
Segnalato da
28/9/2004
Two shows
T1+2 Gallery, London
t1+2 Artspace is pleased to present a new project by the collaborative duo Paulmart. Paulmart have taken the peculiarities of the building and the ongoing commercial development surrounding it as their starting point for this multilayered work. Eva Weinmayr's Hear the Tiny Auto Horns when they Tiny Blow, a work occupying three storeys of a single interior wall of the building in which the art space resides. Utilising a stylised, scaled-up image of flowers Weinmayr has produced an interior 'facade' that intimately aligns itself with the building's architectural structure.
Paulmart
Owl Faces and Cat Ringpieces
t1+2 Artspace is pleased to present Owl Faces and Cat Ringpieces, a new project by the collaborative duo Paulmart. Situated literally a few hundred yards from the edge of The City of London, t1+2 Artspace resides at the heart of an intensive, apparently relentless urban regeneration programme. Paulmart have taken the peculiarities of the building and the ongoing commercial development surrounding it as their starting point for this multilayered work. At two obscure sites within walking distance of t1+2 they have extensively refurbished small sections of the rough and ready fencing thrown up during Spitalfield's ongoing redevelopment, transforming the transitory and the contingent into something worthy of preservation and admiration. The complicated display mechanism they have assembled within the gallery complements, extends and re-presents this provocative, if somewhat pointless labour of love.
The no-nonsense construction of the mechanical display board contrasts sharply with the delicate cleaning and expensive veneering Paulmart have carried out outside the space. In making overtly clear the board's modus operandi the trickery and smugness of advertising is turned against itself. Functional and yet as absurd as the machines to be found in the works of Duchamp or of Raymond Roussel, this device receives but also scrambles the video record Paulmart have made of their nightly, illicit labours, raising questions about the work and its representation, brute functionality and aesthetic effect. Industrial cladding masks the walls of the space surrounding the projector and screen, bringing into the building what is conventionally exterior to it, whilst what might be described as Paulmart's generous micro-gentrification of the city takes place amongst the scrappy backstreets of an area whose "renovation" is in fact its destruction and dissolution. Owl Faces and Cat Ringpieces mirrors and reframes East London's glossy transmogrification, capturing for critical consideration this uncanny spasm of corporate profiteering and cynical rebranding of the living city.
Paulmart, Martin Russell and Paul Teigh have worked collaboratively since 2002. Current projects include An art/aid drop for Unrealised Projects.Recent shows include a solo exhibition at MOT(March 2004,Barip) and a performance at freedom fries in Rotherhithe.
Exhibition Dates: 30th September-31 October 2004. Gallery hours: 11am - 6pm, Wed - Sun.
Private View: Wednesday, 29 September 2004, 7 - 9pm
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Eva Weinmayr
Hear the Tiny Auto Horns when they Tiny Blow
t1+ 2 Artspace is happy to host Eva Weinmayr's Hear the Tiny Auto Horns when they Tiny Blow, a work occupying three storeys of a single interior wall of the building in which the art space resides. Utilising a stylised, scaled-up image of flowers Weinmayr has produced an interior "facade" that intimately aligns itself with the building's architectural structure. Reminiscent of an exaggerated wallpaper pattern, this vast work reconfigures and reenergises a found architectural space. Scale and proportion are distorted by the use of these over-sized flowers and questions of distance and closeness become paramount as the viewer attempts to address the appearance or disappearance of the piece as a whole. Though only part of the actual work is visible one is asked to mentally connect these areas with sections of the space not normally open to public view.
Weinmayr has borrowed her title from a line in a song by Frank Zappa, an expression hinting at the wall painting's Gulliver-like scale-shifting effects. Zappa's words are also used to allude to the penetration into the gallery space of the frenetic sounds produced by the extensive building work being carried out in London's financial district, at the centre of which t1+2 Artspace is located. Such invasive ambient noises, notably from the huge building site adjacent to the gallery but also coming from similar developments sited some distance away, foreground the increasing interpenetration of public and private space.
This theme is also embodied by "Kustom City", a six-part series of photographs showing the artist disrupting the language, meaning and design of the city's corporate signage, which today pervades public space at an ever-increasing rate.
The third body of works in the exhibition pertain to information and daily news. These pieces take the form of a number of radically altered newspaper pages. As with Weinmayr's found roadsigns, which have been covered by the artist with high-tech car laquer, the coated pages of the papers become opalescent lakes, distorting, iridescent mirrors whose effects vary considerably in relation to the viewer's physical relation to them.
Eva Weinmayr most recently exhibited in Flexibilitat at the Kunstverein in Wolfsburg, Germany, and has a solo show at Minisalon, Munich, Germany, in October 2004. She is currently working on a publication with Book Works, London, to be published in spring 2005.
Image: a work by Eva Weinmayr
Private View: Wednesday, 29 September 2004, 7 – 9pm
Exhibition Dates: 30th September-31 October 2004. Gallery hours: 11am - 6pm, Wed - Sun.
For further information please contact Wolfe Lenkiewicz on 07903876522
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