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18/6/2004

...but not as we know it

Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles

Kontainer Gallery is proud to present "...but not as we know it", a group show profiling emerging international artists from the UK and Europe.

Jo Bruton, David Burrows, John Chilver, Dan Coombs, Jimmy Dyer, Craig Fisher, Luke Gottelier, John Hanson & Richard Paul, Deirdre King, Twan Janssen, Peter Lamb, Brendan Quick, Neal Rock.

Many artists' practices today have inflections of painting's recent history embedded within their visual logic. Taking different strands of painting's diverse history, the artists in '...but not as we know it' show how painting can inform and impact upon various concerns within contemporary visual practices.

'...but not as we know it' combines emerging and established artists, predominantly British, working within the expanded field of contemporary painting. Maintaining a dialogue with canvas and paint, it explores an evolution towards installation and object-based work. A strong theme of slippage between image and object runs through the show, an instability evident in the combination of grandiose theatricality with the mundane, and subversion through irreverent, humorous methods of process and self-referentiality.

The theatricality of painting stages a catastrophe. Traditional practices undergo violent restructuring. Familiar styles are torn apart and re-emerge mannered, ridiculed, trivialised and debased as pure fodder for consumption. At the same time, painting celebrates a new brashness, revels in taking centre stage and drawing the viewer into complicity as it struts in its new array - the stuff of the everyday, both the cast-off and new fabrications of consumerism and banality.

Each artist's concerns are interwoven within the group dynamic. Fetishism and obsessiveness work alongside dark humour and childlike playfulness. Overtly form-conscious, the exhibition aims to show a slice of current enquiries, investigating multi-layered and shared narratives.

Private View: Saturday, 19th June, 2004, 6-8 pm

Exhibition: 19th June - 24th July, Tues - Sat, 12- 6 pm

Curators: Deirdre King & Neal Rock

Venue: Kontainer Gallery,
6130 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048
T: 323 933 4746

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