Two artist
dal 4/4/2008 al 11/4/2008
Segnalato da
4/4/2008
Two artist
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Andrew Grassie & Daniel Buren present in this show a complete engagement with the space, and with each other. The work of both directly addresses the places in which they are made, and the ways in which we look at and perceive things.
This exhibition, the twentieth in our current series, is the most clear distillation
yet of the premise behind our years’ programme. Grassie and Buren present a complete
engagement with the space, and with each other.
Following our invitation to contribute to this series, Andrew Grassie asked to show
alongside celebrated artist Daniel Buren. The work of both directly addresses the
places in which they are made, and the ways in which we look at and perceive things.
Buren’s lifelong concern has been not just the artwork itself, but its context, the
space that supports and frames it and which is in turn coloured and changed by his
interventions. With Grassie’s paintings, we are confronted with a near photographic
representation of the space in which we find ourselves.
Grassie’s brilliant but not uncomplicated suggestion for this exhibition was in
several parts: that Buren be invited to create a wall painting in the gallery which
would then be photographed by Grassie who would in turn use the resulting photograph
in his London studio to produce a painting perfectly replicating it. This painting
would ultimately be hung during the exhibition in exactly the same point from which
the photograph was taken. Buren’s wall painting will be painstakingly re-made a
second time for the week-long exhibition itself.
Thus when shown together in the gallery the two works set up a very confusing riddle
of how they have come to be, particularly for any viewer who is aware that any one
of Grassie’s paintings takes many months to complete. Though it seems to present us
with a mirror-image of our surroundings, a prolonged and curious gaze might discern
a clash between the painting's cold, wintry light and the warm spring sunshine now
filling the gallery, so revealing a temporal in-between: of our being in the space,
and his.
Andrew Grassie was born in Edinburgh in 1966 and studied at Central St. Martins
College of Art & Design and the Royal College of Art, London. Completed after many
months’ of work, each extraordinary painting is made on the same small scale using
tempera on paper. In the past two years Grassie has held solo exhibitions in London
and New York, and completed 'New Hang', an exhibition for Tate Britain’s Art Now
series in 2005. Andrew Grassie is represented by Maureen Paley, London.
Daniel Buren was born in France in 1938. His distinguished and important
achievements over a career spanning more than four decades are too numerous to
mention here, but this will be the first time in over twenty years that his work has
been shown in Scotland and we are honoured that he agreed to make a significant new
installation for this exhibition. Daniel Buren is represented by Lisson Gallery,
London.
Opening Saturday 5th April
Ingleby Gallery
6 Carlton Terrace - Edinburgh
Open every day from 10am to 5pm
Free admission