Species of Spaces
dal 4/7/2002 al 4/8/2002
Segnalato da
4/7/2002
Species of Spaces
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
Arnaud Desjardin, James Ireland, Jacqueline Pennell, Paulette Phillips, Claudia Pilsl. Species of Spaces bring together five artists whose work is concerned with a visual and conceptual negotiation of space.
Arnaud Desjardin James Ireland Jacqueline Pennell Paulette Phillips
Claudia Pilsl
Species of Spaces bring together five artists whose work is concerned
with a visual and conceptual negotiation of space.
Arnaud Desjardin's installations often suggest a shift in perception of
location. His large realistic standing stone in the garden is visible
from inside the gallery but, when accessed, exposes the machination of
an artificially constructed presence: the standing stone is a prop used
in the making of a picture.
Arnaud Desjardin was born in France. He lives and works in London. He
has recently exhibited at Mellow Birds (solo) and Platform Gallery,
London; East International, Norwich and Sabine Wachters Fine Arts,
Brussels. He studied in France and Canada and has just completed an MA
in Visual Culture at the Middlesex University.
James Ireland explores the conventions and contexts that define an
idealised space, the desires behind an image of a place far away. James
uses found images and mass-produced objects to create an illusion that
is convincing dependent on specific conditions, an illusion that is
delicate and precarious.
James Ireland studied at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford. Recent
exhibitions include : How and Why (solo), Manchester; Double Take, Aspex
Gallery, Portsmouth; All of my Heart, Arte E Personae, Florence; A
Square of Ground, Jerwood Gallery, London; Perspective 2000, Ormeau
Baths Gallery, Belfast; New Contemporaries 2000.
In her interventions, Jacqueline Pennell playfully distorts and exposes
previously concealed areas. Perfect Day creates a space beyond the
confines of the room. Using objects, wall drawing and photography
Jacqueline constructs a notion of a space that reflects part of a hidden
landscape of memories, desires and false hopes.
For this exhibition Jacqueline Pennell is supported by Goldsmiths
College
Jacqueline Pennell is currently showing with Robert Preece Projects at
the Museum van Nagsael, Rotterdam and CCNOA, Brussels. She has recently
exhibited at Smart Project Space in Amsterdam and The Economist Plaza in
London. She will be exhibiting at The Royal West of England Academy,
Bristol in July 2003. She is a lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths
College, University of London.
Paulette Phillips presents Ecstasy, a video that is part of a series of
intimate small-scale video installations entitled The Secret Life of
Criminals. Ecstasy consists of two channels of video - one is a
projection of a disorientated woman as she walks through a scrubby
industrial landscape on the edge of the city. The woman walks through
the snowy fields, becomes hot, takes off her clothes and lies in the
snow, luxuriating in the sensations. The other monitor depicts evidence
of the woman's actions: her abandoned clothes and her naked body lying
still as a blizzard takes over.
Paulette Phillips is based in Toronto. Her films and videos have been
shown around the world including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Tate Liverpool; The National Gallery, Ottawa; The Sao Paulo Film
Festival; The Australian Video Festival; The Spiral Gallery, Tokyo and
the Humbolt Film and Video Festival, California. She is an Associate
Professor of Integrated Media at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Since 1994 Claudia Pilsl has undertaken a serial investigation of
contemporary art museums. By stripping away their contents, she brings
to view the unknown structures which lie behind the surface of
presentation. For this exhibition, she is showing work based on Tate
Modern.
Claudia Pilsl is an Austrian born artist who presently lives in
Bristol. She has mainly shown in Germany and Austria and in 2001 was a
research fellow at the Photographic Department at the Southampton
Institute. She has just won a major bursary for Fine Art Photography
awarded by the Republic of Austria. For this exhibition, Claudia Pilsl
was supported by the Southampton Institute.
Image: James Ireland, landscape.
Private view: Friday 5 July 6 to 9 pm
Friday Saturday Sunday 2 - 6 pm (or by appointment).
For further information please contact
Danielle Arnaud on 020 7735 8292.
Next: David Blandy Tom Hunter Mindaugas Simkus Milica Tomic Clare
Ursitti Marta Vosyliute Vita Zaman Sept / Oct 2002
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Nov / Dec 2002
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