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6/4/2006

Baroque My World

Transition Gallery, London

I should define as Baroque that style which deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) all its possibilities and which borders on its own parody... I would say that the final stage of all styles is baroque when that style only too obviously exhibits or overdoes its own tricks.
A Universal History of Infamy - Jorge Luis Borges, preface to 1954 edition

The sublime and the ridiculous, the grotesque and the beautiful, the overdone and the overflow, melodrama and ecstasy, a passionate taste for life and its sensations, excessive complexity, contorted and convoluted, showing us a world where matter is continuously in motion.

Baroque My World, brings together thirteen London-based artists, whose work encompasses a range of media and reflects upon various aspects of the Baroque. It is the inaugural show at Transition Gallery’s new premises and is curated by Mimei Thompson

Mimei Thompson
Mimei Thompson’s work brings together the beautiful and the repulsive, exploring the unstoppable proliferations of natural systems through luminous paint and excesses of brush-marks. She graduated from the Royal College of Art Painting department in 2005, and has recently exhibited in the Blythe Gallery at Imperial College, and at ROVE gallery. Exhibitions in 2006 include Territory at the University of the Arts Gallery in Davies Street.

Annie Attridge
Annie Attridge’s work ranges across various media, from etching to video, sculpture, drawing and painting. Her work alludes to sex and taste, and its aesthetic humorously marries the grungy and the decorative. She graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2002, has shown with The Great Unsigned and is currently working on a fountain sculpture for the Economist Plaza in London.

Jonathan Baldock
Jonathan Baldock makes theatrical and darkly humorous fantastical objects. They often incorporate craft elements such as crochet, and are influenced by traditions of folklore and ritual. He graduated from the Royal College of Art Painting department in 2005 and has recently shown at I-cabin, ROVE and was selected for SV05 at Studio Voltaire

Petros Chrisostomou
Petros Chrisostomou is currently studying at the Royal Academy Schools. He was included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2004, and has shown at Sketch and the 291 gallery. His work playfully and surreally deals with constructions of class and taste, through large-scale photographs of miniature environments that he creates out of mundane materials such as chewing gum and balloons.

Florencia Durante
In Florencia Durante’s photographs light is turned into a magical, material force through the use of long exposures. The images give the viewer access to new possibilities of perception and new relationships to energy and vision. She graduated from the RCA Photography department in 2005, and exhibitions in 2006 include a group show in Hamburg, Failure to do so is an Offence, and a solo show, Light Actions, at the Corn Exchange Gallery in Edinburgh.

Antonio Gianasi
Antonio Gianasi works with video, performance and installation, and also produces the fanzine Pin Up. His work references popular culture and art history, and he says: ‘my work is the product of a total consumer. Fed and spun through the mainstream frenzy my practice becomes a form of recycling.’ He is a graduate of Central St Martins, and shows include Becks Futures Film and Video at the ICA, and The Streets of London at 1000000mph project space.

Sarah Gillham
Sarah Gillham works with installation, photography and objects, exploring the desires and desirability of the female body. Her environments often incorporate luxurious and seductive fabrics and materials, and her work ‘draws upon the fairytale of the palace and the perverse’. She graduated from the Royal College of Art Painting department in 2005.

Anthea Hamilton
Anthea Hamilton’s work is a ‘collection of meditations about love’ worked through in both video and in installations that combine traditional art materials with objets trouve', in set ups that humorously play out banal sites of sexual attraction. She graduated from the Royal College of Art painting department in 2005, and has exhibited across the UK and Europe, including in From Tarzan to Rambo: in Focus at Tate Modern in 2002. Exhibitions in 2006 include a solo show at IBID projects.

Lee Maelzer
Lee Maelzer makes beautifully observed, filmic paintings of cities, landscapes and interiors, with atmospheres of melancholy and hidden mystery. She has exhibited internationally, including in the John Moores painting exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and has been awarded an Arts Council of England Residency in Colima, Mexico and an Abbey Fellowship at the British School in Rome. She currently shows with Museum 52.

Simeon Nelson
Simeon Nelson’s work is held in the collections of several Australian museums, and in the UK at the Jerwood Foundation and the Cass Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood. He is currently working on a major public commission in Ashford, Kent. His laser-cut plywood sculptures and installations question relationships between architectural ornament and organic growth. Art historical styles and evolving scientific models of the world inform the work. He is particularly interested in the Baroque ‘as a metaphor for a theory of complexity, spatiality and spectacle’.

Michael Whittle
Michael Whittle’s intricate drawings ‘explore mans attempts to come to terms with existence’, incorporating motifs of religious iconography and scientific investigation in his emblematic landscapes. He graduated from the Royal College of Art Sculpture department in 2005, and exhibitions in 2006 include a two person show at Laura Bartlett gallery in London, and a solo show, The Topology of Being, at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York.

Nicola Woodham
Nicola Woodham works with drawing, film and installation.
A recurring theme in her work is the romance of the inexplicable. She references the gothic motif of the haunted site: the old house in legion with a dark force, or the troubled psyche of the 'visited' individual. The work is driven by a fear and a delight of sexual overspill. Recent projects include Interval (2), The Slade Research Centre, a confluence of film makers and theorists influenced by the work of Deleuze; Slayer Rules at Pearlfisher Gallery and Chronic Epoch at Beaconsfield Gallery.

Joseph Walsh
Joseph Walsh studied at Goldsmiths College and is currently co-running Vs, a series of film events at Beaconsfield Gallery. He has recently been awarded an Artquest Electric Greenhouse Residency. His video works link performance practice to various appropriated genres of film and video, creating spaces where place, roots and cultural identity are under construction. Along with his video piece in Baroque My World, he will be organizing film screenings of artists work variously linked to the Baroque theme.

Extra events will include film screenings on Saturday 22 April at 7pm, and Sunday 30 April at 2pm. Work of various artists, including Lali Chetwynd and JJ Stevens will be shown. See the web site for programme details.

Image: Lee Maelzer, Swampy, oil on canvas, 2005, 169.5 x 132 cm

Private View 7 April 2006 6-9pm

Transition is situated at 25a Regent Studios which is no.8 Andrews Road, London E8
Gallery open Fri - Mon 11-6pm and by appointment

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