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7/9/2006

Neil Farber

Houldsworth Gallery, London

Ruby Throats


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Ruby Throats

Houldsworth is very pleased to launch its new programme and premises with solo exhibition Ruby Throats by surrealist comic bad boy Neil Farber, of Canadian Collective, Royal Art Lodge. This will be Neil Farber’s first solo exhibition in London.

Farber’s work tessellates an astounding array of imagery to form surrealist fantasies, where material acts as foil to his audacious desire to push a cast of frogs, boys, birds, fried eggs, blood and bones to the extremities of decency. The figures in the images seem sorry, hapless subjects of their inner disorders and the alienating confusion of their external realities. Just when we feel we may have a grip on Farber’s work he surprises us by producing a piece of profound morbidity or, conversely, picturesque delicacy.

Ruby Throats echoes the beguiling and disturbing nature of Farber’s works. The diaphanous pools of paint swirl around the hunched figures of round headed boys, humming birds and long haired maidens, but all too easily these pools of flowing colour become the excesses of bleeding necks and drowning seas. Farber explodes illustration outwards, creating a spiralling coil of tragic-comic absurdity and gesture, with a poetic sensibility.

Canadian born Neil Farber has shown internationally both as a solo artist and as part of the infamous comic collective the Royal Art Lodge. Farber has recently had solo exhibitions with Clementine Gallery, New York, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica and Alice Day Gallery, Brussels. He was also part of recently ended Darkness Ascends at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto. His work has been widely reproduced, most recently as the cover artist for Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation and a monograph published by Richard Heller.

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