Tim Ayres
dal 5/5/2006 al 2/6/2006
Segnalato da
5/5/2006
Tim Ayres
Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
The artist is concentrated predominantly on the portrait and still-lives depicting the lace of lingerie, asking questions as to the notion of what one recognises, these paintings address issues of legibility.
Solo show
Gallery Martin Mertens is pleased to announce a guest solo exhibition by
the british painter Tim Ayres (*1965 Hastings, GB).
Ayres will be showing paintings from a recent series of text works.
Comparable to Ayres’ works of the last couple of years, where he
concentrated predominantly on the portrait and still-lives depicting the
lace of lingerie, asking questions as to the notion of what one
recognises, these paintings address issues of legibility: why write
something on a painting when it cannot be fully read and hence
understood?
Often within this new series one is confronted with a textual image that
is bent, pulled, extended and, in one case, ‘coded’ to such an extent
that one feels that one has to look outside or further into the work to
grasp something of what is being communicated, let alone the sense at
the heart of the painting.
In some sense Ayres asks in these works whether understanding is a
given, by virtue of being able to see, or is understanding (meaning,
content and other such ‘possibilities’ as Ayres refers to such matters)
to be found just outside or right inside, evident at the heart, of what
one is looking at?
Ayres studied at Loughborough College of Art, London and Rijksakademie
van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. He lives and works in Amsterdam.
Opening: Saturday, May 6st. 6 pm
Galerie Martin Mertens
Brunnenstrasse 162 - Berlin