Alessandro Roma / Majed Aslam
dal 5/6/2013 al 12/7/2013
Segnalato da
5/6/2013
Alessandro Roma / Majed Aslam
Paradise Row, London
Enclosure elaborates Roma's fascination with landscape and in particular the idea and varied form of the garden: painting, collage and sculpture. Comprising photographic prints and hanging sculptures in Anti-Perspirant Aslam explores the underlying weirdness of the world.
Alessandro Roma
Enclosure
Paradise Row presents Enclosure the first UK solo exhibition by Alessandro Roma. Comprising painting, collage and sculpture Enclosure elaborates Roma's fascination with landscape and in particular the idea and varied form of the garden.
Just as the garden is a site where humans temporarily check the wild contingency of nature and so hold order and chaos in tense balance, Roma's works enclose within them a carefully linked array of planes, perspectives, materials, surfaces and forms all held in an exquisite visual expression of equipoise.
Alessandro Roma (b, 1977, Milan). A graduate of Milan's Brera Art Academy, Roma has taken part in numerous group shows including: Estate, Marianne Boesky Gallery, The Suburbans, Chicago, Partita a quattrouna rifessione sulla scultura, Galleria Lorcan O'Neil, Rome, Expanded Painting, Prague Biennial (4th).
His work has also been the subject of numerous solo shows including exhibitions at Brand New Gallery, Milan, Museum Mart Trento, Italy, Scaramouche, New York, Marabini Gallery, Bologna. In 2007, Roma won the 4th International Painting Prize Diputación de Castellón run by the Museo de Bellas Artes, Castellon, Spain. Roma was Künstlerhäuser Worpswede artist in residence 2008 - 2009. Roma lives and works in London.
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Majed Aslam
Anti-Perspirant
The Basement at Paradise Row presents the first UK solo show by Majed Aslam.
Comprising photographic prints and hanging sculptures Anti-Perspirant explores the underlying weirdness of the world that is revealed when generic visual and linguistic signifiers are decoupled and drift away from their typical contexts.
Anti-Perspirant begins with a stock image of water droplets - a signifier of generic signifiers - found on the net. Majed has produced a series of inkjet prints of the image that he disrupts and distorts using acetone with increasing intensity, describing a trajectory of dissolution that finds a terminal point in full chromatic abstraction.
This logic of exploiting the fragile relationship between form and function flows into Majed's hanging sculptures.
Majed Aslam (1981, UK) graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010. Recently, the artist has appeared in group shows including:Form a Great Height, 4 Windmill St, London, 2013, Heat, Twelve Around One Gallery, London. 2012; Verlan, Twelve Around One Gallery, London, 2012 and Tracing Shadows, Blythe Gallery, London, 2011. Aslam is co-curator of online project RE-RUN with artist Fay Nicolson and a member of the ongoing lifestyle and club music project Black Argos.
The Basement at Paradise Row is a new exhibition programme that showcases the works of emerging artists. Curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini, The Basement at Paradise Row will run concurrently alongside the main programme.
Image: Alessandro Roma, Untitled, 2012, pencil, serigraphy and theard on paper, 50 x 35 cm
For further information, please contact: Khuroum Bukhari T: +44 (0)207 6369355 khuroum@paradiserow.com
Private view: Thursday 6 June 2013, 7-9pm
Paradise Row
74a Newman Street London W1T 3DB
Gallery hours: Tue—Sat / 11am – 7pm