Temporary Fiction brings together six London based artists whose work encompases different aspects of visual art practice today. The show explores the narrative constructs of each artist's work with the creation of a 'fantasy' gallery, designed and constructed inside Transition by artists Hew Locke and Danny Rolph.
David Burrows, Deidre King, Peter Lamb, Hew Locke, Neal Rock, Danny Rolph
Temporary Fiction brings together six London based artists whose work
encompases different aspects of visual art practice today. The show
explores the narrative constructs of each artist's work with the
creation of a 'fantasy' gallery, designed and constructed inside
Transition by artists Hew Locke and Danny Rolph.
The design of the gallery responds to the work of each artist
exhibiting, forming new associations as the group dynamic is
transformed. The gallery is an extension of Hew Locke's current
practice which saw him explore commodity, class hierarchies and value
systems in his Cardboard Palace installation at Chisenhale in 2002.
Danny Rolph's large scale Macrolan plastic paintings are also newly
conceived as they form part of the material construct of the gallery
space. His paintings, with their energetic architectural qualities now
form a container both literally and narratively for the works exhibited
within.
Neal Rock and Deidre King have both developed work that is conscious of
painting's status as a commodity. Rock, using silicone piped through
icing cake nozzles, makes work that envelops its support structure,
thriving on a sense of artificiality and the baroque. For this show
Deidre King has created dried skins of paint folded into cardboard box
containers, also indicating a desire for excess and an interest in
their consumption materially and conceptually.
Peter Lamb's work appropriates found copies of old paintings and other
items of ephemera to create new works that are at once objects,
trophies and images. They display an interest in nostalgia, hovering
between homage, appropriation and defacement.
David Burrow's work plays on the tautology of images and objects that
display a clear sense of their fiction / construction within their own
visual logic. His Borgesian play within a myriad of interchangeable
worlds highlights one of the main themes of the exhibition; how
narratives are constructed and within those constructions where other
possibilities unravel.
3 October - 2 November Fri-Sun 12-6pm
Private View - Thursday 2 October 6-9pm
Special late Night Opening - Saturday 18 October 9pm
Contact Cathy Lomax for more information and images - 07941 208566
Transition
110a Lauriston Road, London E9