28/4/2005
Gabriela Schutz
Platform3, London
Invasion of the Trojan Horse. Two large scale water colours on paper. Both works depict what appears to be a suburban sprawl. It is replete with voyeuristic pleasures, monotony and a touch of humour. We view these places at a further remove like a security guard faced with a grid of control room monitors each fractionally miss-calibrated.
Invasion of the Trojan Horse
In Invasion of the Trojan Horse Gabriela Schutz will be showing two large
scale water colours on paper; Invasion of the Trojan Horse(1.22 x 1.52 m)
and Cul-de-sac(1.22 x 4.58 m). Both works depict what appears to be a
suburban sprawl. The scale of this sprawl is vast. The titles of the works
carry the conflicting sentiment of romance and horror. Are these places,
locations of snug comfort, situations of quaint antiquity or are they dead
ends and where fatalistic narratives play themselves out?
Certainly Schutz gives us a fantastical space to contemplate. It is replete
with voyeuristic pleasures, monotony and a touch of humour. We view these
places at a further remove like a security guard faced with a grid of
control room monitors each fractionally miss-calibrated. In front of
Cul-de-sac and Invasion we are bathed in the eerie, bathetic light of
malfunctioning technology.
Are these water colours cliche or sublime? Is it possible that they are both
and by the scale of repetition and the heroic, machineic effort of their
construction by hand that cliche becomes sublime, truism is invested with
the uncanny and we the viewer are in love once more?
This is Gabriela Schutz's first show at Platform. She has recently exhibited
at Petach-Tikva Museum (Petach-Tikva, Israel), Hangrove art Space (Bristol),
Zoo Art Fair, (Jeffery Charles Gallery, London) 'Pilot:1' (Lime House Town
Hall, London), 'Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004' (London) and 'Death of Romance',
curators: Amanda Beech & Matthew Poole (17 Ganton Street, London).
Private View: Friday 29 April, 6.00-8.00 pm
Image: Camera 1, 2 2000
Oil on Canvas
40 x 20 cm
Platform
3 Wilkes Street, London E1 6QF
The gallery is open Thursday - Sunday 12 - 6pm or by appointment