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12/10/2004

Two exhibitions

Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Grayson Perry and Jacco Olivier

Grayson Perry

The Victoria Miro Gallery presents new work by Grayson Perry in his first solo show since winning the Turner Prize in 2003. The exhibition will comprise of approximately fourteen pots, a textile work and works on paper.

Perry creates seductively beautiful pots to convey challenging themes: at the heart of his practice is a passionate desire to comment on deep flaws within society. The forms of the pots may be traditional, but Perry resolutely distances himself from the typical cannon of artistic ceramics. Rather he uses pots as narrative and figurative media, a round, curved surface for a bizarre or bitter story. Covered in a kind of psychic collage replete with stark, expressionistic drawings, hand written text, stenciled lettering and photographs. Savage satirical messages are scrawled alongside nostalgia for lost innocence. He is a master of the incongruous juxtaposition. His work incorporates art history and the art world, consumer culture, scenarios of kinky sex and allusions to violence as well as images of himself, his family and his transvestite alter ego Claire.

Grayson Perry was born in Chelmsford in 1960. He studied at Braintree College of Further Education and at Portsmouth Polytechnic. In the early 1980s Perry was a member of the Neo-Naturist group, and took part in performance and film works. He has continued to create work in a variety of media that includes embroidery and photography but is best known for his ceramic works. Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize in 2003. His exhibitions include 2004, A Secret History of Clay from Gauguin to Gormley, Tate Liverpool, Collection Intervention, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives; 2002 Guerilla Tactics, Barbican Art Gallery, London, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Special Preview 12noon to 5pm, Wednesday 13 October

14 October to 13 November

A 48pp artist's book accompanies the exhibition with a text by Professor Lisa Jardine. Special exhibition price £15. Published October 2004, available from the Victoria Miro Gallery.
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Jacco Olivier - Moving Pictures

Jacco Olivier is a young Dutch painter who uses animation to illuminate the narrative process of painting. Olivier fuses painting and moving images in tiny, projected, animated works that invest small and intangible moments with a magical lyricism.

Olivier begins with a painting that he paints over time and again; photographing each stage, until the original slowly degenerates and finally disappears all together. What remains is an animated history of the work, a slice of time, which captures scraps of narrative, and memories that are joined together to form a moving picture.

Between the groups of colours and abstract forms of paint Olivier reveals a microcosmic animated world of informal situations - a frog tries to cross the road, men walk in a field, an airplane flies overhead. These mementoes are small, chance reflections about both the nature of the world and the nature of painting. There is a casual uneasiness and tension, a feeling that something is about to happen or has just happened, but there are no definitive answers, beginnings or conclusions. Rather Olivier's animations find their own place in the margins, somewhere between a story and a painting.

Moving Pictures is Jacco Olivier's first solo exhibition in London and will include seven new films installed in the Upper Gallery . The exhibition will take place at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York from 13 November to 11 December 2004. Jacco Olivier was born in the Netherlands in 1972, he graduated from the Rijksakademie in 1998 and lives and works in Amsterdam.

Special Preview 12noon to 5pm, Wednesday 13 October

14 October to 13 November 2004

Image: a work by Jacco Olivier
Adriana Varejão, 'O Sedutor (The Seducer)', 2004 and 'A Diva (The Diva)' 2004

Victoria Miro Gallery
16 Wharf Road N1 7RW
London

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