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14/1/2011

Marko Dutka / Sean Branagan

University College for the Creative Arts - James Hockey Gallery, Farnham

curated by Christine Kapteijn

Marko Dutka: Baroque & Roll
15 January - 5 March 2011
James Hockey Gallery, UCA Farnham

Marko Dutka's new work 'Baroque & Roll' takes as its inspiration the 'Baroque' or misshapen pearl. His stunning new portraits are from an ongoing project exploring, documenting and celebrating individuals in all walks of life who add colour, richness and diversity to our culture.

"'Baroque' pearls don't hang well together" says Dutka, "They can't be forced into clusters and their beauty relies upon hanging separately, claiming all their own attention." These individuals hang separately, revelling in playing with a language that they create themselves, dancing across the boundary between the group and the individual. Dutka's work challenges the homogeneity of modern society with striking simplicity and directness.

We live in a culture of diversity that is composed of ever decreasing circles of conformity. In our most individual condition of nakedness we are at our most conformist, simply the animal. Even here there are those who, through exercise, incision or ink, are simply not satisfied.

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Sean Branagan: Take me anywhere, I don't care - I don't care
15 January - 12 February 2011
Foyer Gallery, UCA Farnham

Sean Branagan's work has a hint of the impossible but nearly graspable about it. His moving image pieces bridge traditional artistic techniques and contemporary visual language.

With the adoption of LCD screens 'time', 'light' and 'movement' become elements that are as valid to his practice as more conventional ones of painting such as line, form and colour. Light and movement emanate from within the work. However, light is also applied externally onto the work, to be seen in the full light of the Gallery. Branagan creates works that consistently 'pop the bubble' of visual art, reaching out towards us whilst inviting us to reach inside them.

Branagan's work exists simultaneously in two and three dimensions. He doesn't describe the world we know. Instead he attempts to breach 'The Real'. His art is less about creating a navigable bridge between the tangible and intangible; more an orchestration of seeing and feeling the work homogenously: about embracing the idea that perhaps there is no difference. Perhaps there is only one thing – 'The Real'.

Opening Saturday 15 January 2011

Private View Friday 21 January 2011, 6.30-8.30pm

James Hockey & Foyer Galleries, UCA Farnham, UK
Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DS, UK
Hours: Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm, Closed Sunday & Bank Holidays
Free Admission

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