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11/10/2004

Two solo exhibitions

f a projects, London

DAVID BURROWS

In his second solo show at f a projects, David Burrows presents a series of mirror works and other assemblages in an exhibition concerned with mirroring, doubling and the breakdown of figure and ground. This new work distils themes developed in his exhibition 'New Life' which opened at the Chisenhale Gallery in the Spring, in which reflective surfaces, glitter and mobiles created a 'haptic' experience amidst hand-made assemblages of brand-new ruins. Now Burrows distils the mirror motif, creating both Baroque mirrors that exist as autonomous objects, and photographic works that use reflection as structural armature.

In the work Take Back Years, the work’s uplifting slogan is inscribed through the playful slicing-up of a 'faux' Baroque mirror, made from foam and mirror-styrene; the text interrupting the form and coherence of the mirror. The words, cut into the mirror’s surface, become both image and absence.

The photographic diptych, Play All Sides, reworks Duchamp’s canonical work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) as a staged photograph, mirroring negative and positive image of the remains of a bachelor's party.

Alongside these works will be shown new foam wall sculptures and a single new mobile. These works, which flirt with the idea of being without substance or sense, affirm a desire for the new through the processes of subtraction, multiplication and destruction whilst sustaining a dialogue with art from the past and mass media culture.

David Burrows’ solo exhibition ‘New Life’, is currently on tour in this country. Having opened at The Chisenhale Gallery, London, and travelled to The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, the exhibition opens at the Mead Gallery, 29 September 2004 and then travels to Aspex Gallery, January 2005. Other recent group exhibitions include ‘Rose C’est La Vie’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art; ‘Micro/Macro: British Art 1996-2002’, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest and Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento Italy. Burrows was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2002.

Private view 12 October 2004 6.30 – 8.30 pm

Exhibition 13 October – 20 November 2004

The launch of the book ‘David Burrows, New Life', published to coincide with the touring exhibition, will take place on 12 October 6.30 – 8.30 pm during the private view at f a projects
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Gallery Two: MAURICIO GUILLEN

In the second gallery, the Mexican artist Mauricio Guillen will be showing a new video work, Night Shift. The piece follows the artist’s nocturnal surveillance of a security guard as he undertakes his duties and passes the time. Guillen, whose work currently features in Newcontemporaries, often explores isolation and barriers, both physical and political.

Mauricio Guillen was born in Mexico City and lives and works in London. He studied for his MA at the Royal College of Art, London. Upcoming exhibitions include ‘Newcontemporaries’, September 2004. Recent exhibitions include Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Kunstlerhaus Mousononturm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Apex Art, New York; The Photographers Gallery, London and the Second International Biennale of Puerto Rico.

For further information and for images, please contact the gallery on + 44 20 7928 3228

Private view 12 October 2004 6.30 – 8.30 pm

Exhibition 13 October – 20 November 2004

Gallery opening times: Tuesday – Friday 10-6, Saturday 12-5

f a projects will participate in The Zoo Art Fair in Regents Park, London, from the 16th to the 18th of October, where we will show work by Neal Rock, David Burrows, Mauricio Guillen, Noel Jabbour, James Ireland, John Wood and Paul Harrison, Arjan van Helmond and Juneau/Projects/

Image:
David Burrows, Take Back Years, 2004. Mirrorstyrene and foam, 140 x 105 cm

f a projects
1-2 Bear Gardens SE1 9ED
London

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