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26/5/2004

Oggy, oggy, oggy!

Motinternational, London

Paul Becker, Michael Jackson, Ben McLaughlin, Floyd Varey

Oggy, oggy, oggy! Oi, oi, oi! (call of tin miners verifying how many pasties they required).

Floyd Varey provides the context for a small show of paintings and drawings by Becker, Jackson and McLaughlin. Varey's Scarecrow and Painting Table, complete with spinning bottle rack (Duchamp), stand guard over a selection of mildly disturbing figurative paintings.

Paul Becker has provided us with drawings of masturbating teddy bears and murderous woodland creatures, fluxed up Beatrice Potter that would have the analysts working overtime. Michael Jackson paints small canvases of mundane landscapes, dusty corners and empty lobbies. There is an air of the suicidal and mind numbing intensity invested in his, apparently, banal subjects. Ben McLaughlin has provided two miniature paintings of a hotel, one with the lights on and one with them off, while Varey himself shows a portrait of an incredibly sad Pink Panther.

Instead of encasing these works in a traditional gallery setting Floyd Varey will be framing the other works within a PCP fuelled chaotic structure, reminiscent of a fairground attraction, complete with green and pink walls, jigsaws of the state-room at Buckingham Palace, postcard Queen and toy alien. Your senses will be spinning in a cider induced haze with only the words of the King for comfort.

Future Exhibitions at MOT
LILITH 9th July –13th August 2004.
I AM THE WRATH OF GOD 27th August – 1st October.

Open Fri, Sat, Sun 12-5 or by appointment

28th May – 2nd July 2004
Private View Thursday 27th 6 – 9pm

MOT
Unit 54/5th floor Regents Studios
8 Andrews Road London E8 4QN
T +44 (0)207 923 9561 M +44 (0)7931 305 104
Bethnal Green Underground Bus 394,106,253,26,48,55,D6, D3, 8
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