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1/10/2001

Mark Fairnington

Mobile Home, London

Mobile Home is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Mark Fairnington.

Fairnington's new paintings transport subject matter from seventeenth century still life paintings into a Disneyesque vision of life where animals, birds, flowers, plants, humans and insects cavort in splendid dance - resurrected in defiance of their morbid state. The paintings are rendered with meticulous attention to detail, the objects presented as facts, reinforcing their status as accurate representations of the natural world engaged in a glorious death defying waltz.

Fairnington will also present a new painting from the large scale Mantidae series. The Mantidae paintings focus on the idea of the 'specimen'. They depict the specimens as specimens, describing the complex and beautiful surface detail and the indignities inflicted by the collecting process. Each painting shows one insect, enlarged to the size of a human, unleashing powerful anthropomorphic associations.

Poised between the jewel-like and the lurid, his pieces exert a powerful mixture of attraction and repulsion. And so they should - we are looking at life-or-death struggles.
Rachel Withers, NU, Nordic Art , 1999

Fairnington's minimal system leads to maximum anxiety.
Mark Gisbourne, Oculus Imaginationis: From the photograph to the real, CVA Magazine, 2000

Preview: Tuesday 2nd October 7-9pm
Exhibition: 3rd October - 3rd November 2001
Tuesday - Saturday 12pm - 6pm

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