Heathen Threshold
dal 5/7/2006 al 31/7/2006
Segnalato da
5/7/2006
Heathen Threshold
Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
In an era dominated by rationalism and scientific modernity, the artists reclaim forbidden knowledge to see the world through the illumination of shamanism, animism, folklore, fables and mythologies.
Group exhibition featuring Sarah Dwyer, Rui Matsanaga, Tim Parr and Ruth Uglow.
In an era dominated by rationalism and scientific modernity, the artists in
Heathen Threshold reclaim forbidden knowledge to see the world through the
illumination of shamanism, animism, folklore, fables and ancient mythologies.
Through dreaming reverie, they seek to re-possess the terrain and unearth
strange and microscopic encounters coalescing with heathen passages, where
individuals worship forbidden old divinities in wastelands and wild places.
What they each share is an emotive connection to nature, where they find
wonder, magic and romantic trancendence.
Sarah Dwyer's paintings deal with maps of terrain created as remembered,
fantasized spaces highlighting peculiar encounters within the landscape. A
dialogue between composed and accidental painterly marks evolves on the
surface of the works, conjuring up a language of the unconscious. There is a
remaking of a parallel world, where an illogical anomalous space is created,
using both serious and playful ways of addressing the viewer.
Rui Matsunaga sources figurative imagery from magazines, the Internet and
photography for paintings. Drawing inspiration from Manga (Japanese cartoon
and comics) and ancient mythology she exaggerates the tension between reality
and fiction to transmute figures into shamans, witches, nympths and oracles
existing in an otherworld of the magical and spiritual.
Tim Parr¹s hyper-real paintings combine beautifully observed details from the
natural world with fantastic events. Parr¹s paintings draw upon mythological
characters, to which our responses swing between delight and horror. Often set at night, in semi-rural, semi urban settings like Hampstead Heath, Parr
creates an alarming atmosphere in which imagination reigns, and the rule of
reason is suspended.
Ruth Uglow¹s aquatints investigate the mechanics of organic life, as a
magnified sensual experience, capturing the animation of the organic forms
that she immerses herself within. She depicts her experience as though she
were entering an inner world or cavity inside the belly of the earth,
revealing her fascination with hybridization, fertility and explosive growth.
Private View : Thurs 6 July 6- 9pm
Sartorial Contemporary Art
101A Kensington Church St - London
Open: Tues - Fri - 1.30 - 7.30pm and by appointment