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26/10/2007

Blaise Drummond

Filiale Berlin / Galerie Conrads, Berlin

The Bright Hours

Drummond's paintings, whether seen as a series or in isolation, explore the tenuous relationship between nature and culture. The artist perceives the landscape with a fresh eye that does not seek out ‘nature's bounty’, but instead focuses on what is really there, altered and revised by modern culture. Cricket grounds, picnic areas, and natural woodlands are represented as sterile areas yet are not devoid of beauty. The artist finds an exactness and comfort in this preprocessed environment. In his world, Blaise captures a world of genetic engineering and chemical alterations, but one in which the tension between repetition and deviation creates its own excitement. The result is a smoothly seductive body of work that revels in the new order of things and captivates the viewer with a vision of refinement and precision.

This latest exhibition develops Drummond's enquiries into the flawed promises of Modernism, conducted by the artist while living in one of Le Corbusier's Unités, La Maison Radieuse in Reze, just outside Nantes. "...I have decided to make beauty by contrast," said Le Corbusier of his Unités, "I will find its complement and establish a play between crudity and finesse, between the dull and the intense, between precision and accident. I will make people think and reflect…" And this is something also elegantly achieved by Drummond in his coming exhibition.

*The exhibition title refers to the name of Villa Les Heures Claires by Le Corbusier in Poissy-sur-Seine near Paris.

Image: Blaise Drummond
The Comune´s fish pond, 2006
mixed media on wall, installation view Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf

Filiale Berlin / Galerie Conrads
Brunnenstrasse 188-190 - Berlin
Admission free

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