Bettina Buck
dal 10/10/2010 al 12/11/2010
Segnalato da
10/10/2010
Bettina Buck
Rokeby Gallery, London
Buck continues to be interested in the inherent instability of material, to search for what in her words creates 'a tremor, a noise, a mood, a situation, a conversation with its surroundings, with the viewer'.This practice is both performative and durational, in a process which is often vortical in its evolution.
This is Bettina Buck’s second exhibition at Rokeby and her first at the Hatton Wall gallery space.
Buck continues to be interested in the inherent instability of material, to search for what in her words creates “a tremor, a noise, a mood, a situation, a conversation with its surroundings, with the viewer”.
Recent work includes an unstable room-divider made of tiled fabric / a settee wrapped in bandages, linen and plastic by Buck’s mother - under instruction from Buck / a bronze Swelling, from an ongoing series of 12, each one produced using a single carton of expanding-foam prior to being contained in bronze / a hand missing some fingers / a short film featuring Buck carrying a large block of foam through a rural landscape / some oversized tennis balls housed in 3-sided tiled boxes / etc…
Often there is a concealed personal narrative and history embedded within the work; as with the settee, which remains as much a work of the imagination as a physical fact. Buck attempts to engage with unpredictable, external and uncontrollable influences, which activate her practice as she re-configures common, often found materials. This practice is both performative and durational, in a process which is often vortical in its evolution.
Bettina Buck (born 1974, Cologne) lives and works in London. This second solo exhibition at the gallery comes shortly after her solo presentation at Art |41| Statements earlier this year. Prior to her installation with the gallery at Basel she was selected as one of twenty-five young artists for Art Colgne’s New Positions. Recent exhibitions include Proposal (Nacht und Träume) for Stavanger, curated by Vincent Honoré, and with Sara Barker in Bettina Buck invites… at Mirko Mayer Gallery. Forthcoming exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Monitor gallery, Rome in December 2010
For more information and images contact ed@rokebygallery.com 00447973678460
Opening 11 October 2010
Private view 12 October
Rokeby Gallery
5-9 Hatton Wall, London
Gallery Opening Times:
Wednesday - Friday 11.00 - 18.00
Saturday 11.00 - 16.00
free admission