Callum Innes
dal 27/7/2007 al 22/9/2007
Segnalato da
27/7/2007
Callum Innes
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
"From memory" brings together a selection of key paintings and works on paper, and offers a rare opportunity to trace the development of the artist's work over the past fifteen years.
From memory
On the heels of extremely popular showings in Edinburgh and Oxford, Kettle's
Yard will be this exhibition's last stop in the UK before it travels to the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia.
Callum Innes: from memory brings together a selection of key paintings and
works on paper, and offers a rare opportunity to trace the development of
the artist's work over the past fifteen years.
Working in series, Innes has crafted a distinctive visual language through a
paring-down of the essential elements of painting, with the repeated
application and removal of paint from the canvas. This exhibition includes
examples of several key series of works: Identified Forms, Isolated Forms,
Repetitions, Monologues, Resonances and paintings made with shellac.
Rhythmic and meditative, Innes¹ paintings nevertheless bear traces of the
controlled chaos of their production. The Monologues are made by brushing
turpentine into a simply-painted ground and dissolving the paint into an
expressive torrent, often evoking forces of nature. In the shellac
paintings, he draws on the oppositional qualities of shellac and paint to
make luminously associative imagery.
Innes came to national and international prominence in the early 1990s, and
the earliest works in this exhibition date from that time. A major part of
the exhibition is devoted to the series of Exposed Paintings, in which the
canvas is divided geometrically between fields of dense and dissolved paint,
and unpainted ground. The exhibition reveals how this series has diversified
over time. In a commanding new sequence of Exposed Paintings, Innes exploits
the possibilities offered by dissolving violet into and against black in a
range of differently proportioned horizontal bands.
A beautifully illustrated publication accompanies the exhibition, featuring
essays by Fiona Bradley, Eric de Chassey, Michael Auping and Richard Cork,
and an interview with Callum Innes by Paul Bonaventura. Published by Hatje
Cantz and The Fruitmarket Gallery. Special exhibition price £25.00.
Callum Innes: From Memory is organised by The Fruitmarket Gallery,
Edinburgh.
Kettle's Yard
Castle Street - Cambridge