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3/7/2002

Guns and Roses

Greyscale, London

TRAILER is proud to present GUNS AND ROSES.
Twenty-five contemporary artists are brought together in the latest stop for TRAILER, taking place at 86 Brick Lane, London E1. This former warehouse provides a unique space in which to show painting, photography, video, sculpture, animation and site-specific installations. GUNS AND ROSES is curated by Juan Bolivar.

GUNS AND ROSES splits the warehouse into two distinct areas; the dimly lit East Wing' and the bright West Wing'. In this temporary museum, the gentile and the profane meet and make mayhem for two weeks.

GUNS AND ROSES
Fabio Almeida and Julie Verhoeven
This dynamic duo team up and take over the dungeon' for GUNS AND ROSES. Who knows what they will do, but you can be sure to expect Almeida's unique site specific extravaganza and sumptuous drawings from Verhoeven.

Juan Bolivar
These latest paintings show Bolivar's abstractions configuring into faces. Smiling, menacing, heartfelt or mechanical, this is twisted formalism.

Caroline Brockbank
For GUNS AND ROSES Brockbank has produced paper flowers from dollar bills, using traditional origami folds. An ominous, phosphorescent blossoming.

Nick Dawes
Dawes presents us with his recognisable Men At Work' and No Entry' road sign paintings, once again we see them questioning meaning and originality.

Andrew Grassie
Grassie has become known for his meticulous egg tempera paintings. For GUNS AND ROSES, he shows us what goes on back stage' in these unravelled but uncompromising landscapes.

John Greenwood
Greenwood's work has a morphic quality - Dali meets Disney. In GUNS AND ROSES we see a lighter touch in his paintings, but this elegance masks a darker, brooding side.

Neil Hamon
Social commentary or still life'? Hamon's compelling work presents us with the beauty of illusion and the illusion of beauty.

Justin Hibbs
These paintings of buildings have a familiar yet surreal modernist quality. Their understated tone serves as an arena where Le Corbusier and de Chirico meet.

Andy Hsu
Hsu is a storyteller. His work reminds us how we assimilate and develop notions of truth as information is related. His mousetrap video installation is high in entertainment value, but it also draws us to confront our sense of law and order.

Zebedee Jones
Jones' paintings have a distinctly etched surface tension. Through their subdued tonality, they resonate a complex mood.

Hattie Lee
Lee presents us with a cinematic overview of night-time in London. Her photographs are an inquisitive exploration of our city and are imbued with a sense of nostalgia and longing.

Peter Liversidge
For GUNS AND ROSES Liversidge will be producing a site specific work and you can guarantee it will exhibit his quirky and idiosyncratic humour. His fine observations are turned not just into sculpture or installation, but peculiar situations'.
Georgina McNamara
Previously, McNamara has concentrated on the relationships between clothing and the body through the use of computer manipulated images. However, her latest work has a more romantic and dreamy quality

Sheena Macrae
Gone With The Wind' compressed into five minutes. This is a roller coaster ride into cinematic oblivion. Macrae's three pit stops heighten our exhilaration and point at the way information is compressed to fit into our daily overload.

Ian Monroe
Monroe's architectural speakers pile up and threaten to topple over. Their simple but effective fabrication shows the fragility of our designed world.

Shoko Murakami
Murakami constructs monochromatic illusions of still lifes. Their familiarity is partly bleached of colour giving us a shadow of the everyday.

Darren O'Brien
The white noise' of radio news is combined with spliced photographs in O'Brien's witty radio sculptures. Topicality and hazy ephemera or a tribute to the artists studio companion?

Mirja Oksanen
Like the 70's cult movie, Carrie', Oksanen's porcelain sculptures play with the flip side of celebration. Her ominous photograph for GUNS AND ROSES also hints at notions of reversed first impressions. This haunted scene of a Blair Witch' cottage might turn out to be a shelter for the night.

John Richert
The printed surface of packaging and advertising is subverted through Richert's work. He uses the same seductive language but turns it into a tableaux of erotic fantasy.

Richardson and Smith
Splinter is back! In Episode III of this ongoing series of animations, Splinter takes an eventful walk through London...

Gina Tornatore
Tornatore's video The Man Who Fell is as intense as it is mesmerising as we are caught in a symmetrical, cyclical ordeal of the protagonist's anguish.

Richard Wathen
In GUNS AND ROSES we are presented with Wathen's portraits of Frankenstein and a bearded lady. Their comedic aspect is a first impression of what proves to be sensitive portrayals of the disenfranchised and misunderstood.

Leon Woolls
In this latest series of photographs, night-time scenes of industrial arcadia edging on suburban living are replaced by the cold light of day. His photographs retain their uncanny quality, as serenity meets the absurd.

Image: Gina Tornatore, Giallo - 1999 16 mm colour film - film stills

TRAILER presents GUNS AND ROSES, and hosted by GREYSCALE, 86 Brick Lane, London.

Private View 4 July 6pm - 9pm
Opening Dates are 5 July - 21 July; Tuesday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm

For more information:
Caroline Brockbank or Juan Bolivar
T: 020 7690 0603
e-mail cazza.bb@virgin.net

GREYSCALE
86 Brick Lane, London

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