Private
dal 19/6/2002 al 19/7/2002
Segnalato da
19/6/2002
Private
Pump House Gallery, London
An exhibition that aims to explore the dialogue between the individual and public, addressing issues of voyeurism, intrusion, intimacy, and surveillance. Four artists, who directly utilize their own body as their primary subject, will be making site-specific work at a pump house, as a venue for contemporary art.
Artists: Zeyad Dajani, Anthony Gross, David Gyscek, and Seema Rao
Curated by: Swapna Tamhane
PRIVATE is an exhibition that aims to explore the dialogue between the individual and public, addressing issues of voyeurism, intrusion, intimacy, and surveillance.
Four artists, who directly utilize their own body as their primary subject, will be making site-specific work at a pump house, offered by City North Group Plc, as a
venue for contemporary art.
Zeyad Dajani will be using video to discuss the body in relation to space. Using a straightforward approach, Dajani's work carries an inherent strength as he uses
simple methodologies to describe complex ideologies of spatial and temporal compatibility. As Dajani refers to the body of the artist, Anthony Gross is concerned
with the artificiality of what that body has become. Gross transmits the human form into a computer image, turning our expressions and movements into individual
performances. He will be installing 3 monitors, each with digital faces, that recapture consciousness and examine issues of communication.
David Gyscek will be creating a photographic installation referencing Baroque moments of revelations, with intonations of ecstasy, both sexual and religious, and
aims to form a dialogue between surface and depth. While Gyscek creates an intimate moment, Seema Rao has casted a life-size cast of a couple who are clearly
being intruded upon. Rao's intention is to bring the viewer and sculpture into the same spatial capacity, where both subject and object will experience the same
emotions. Her installation will dramatically address the notion of surveillance, but more importantly relates to the idea of having to prove something intangible such as
love or intimacy.
Dajani has recently exhibited at Arnolfini, Bristol, Lisson Gallery, London, and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. Gross, presently exhibiting at Royal Festival Hall,
part of David Bowie's 'Meltdown', has also shown at Tower Records, Piccadilly Circus, London, 291 Gallery, London, and Auckland City Art Gallery, New
Zealand. Gyscek has shown at 291 Gallery, London, and has had a solo show in Massachusetts. Rao has recently exhibited at Coningsby Gallery, London,
Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, and has had her work collected by various sculpture gardens.
Private View: June 20, 6-9pm
Open: Fri 3-7pm, Sat & Sun 12-6pm
For further details please contact:
Swapna Tamhane
m. 07932 399 330
orangepekoe@hotmail.com
Pump House, Aldgate
Hooper Street, London
E1 8BP