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14/11/2007

Portraiture

Eyestorm Gallery, London

"Our eyes are the essential sensitivity between nature and our soul. It is in our eyes that the present takes place and as a consequence our sensitivity" - Robert Delaunay

Me Vanessa Suchar has been invited as guest curator at Eyestorm Gallery space opposite Tate modern in London. Three artists were chosen to explore PORTRAITURE beyond representation as captured in their recent works in search of the transitory and subconscious elements of identity like aura, psyche and soul. Drawing, painting, sculpture and photography will interact to challenge the visitors’ perception of portrait as artistic genre in multiple ways.

Tom Fecht photographed Linda Karshan at work in her London studio. Intrigued by the performative nature of her practise, and her choreographic language to mark out time in space, Fecht set out to capture the repetitive patterns of this work. Between the first encounters in 2005 and subsequent shootings in 2006, Karshan learned more and more about the subconscious aspects of her long established drawings rituals, which surfaced through photography. Karshan, a trained dancer at the beginning of her career, started intuitively to redesign her way of drawing and opened up her stance to support her hand better while drawing. Thus it was necessary to “begin again”.

Much has been written about Linda Karshan’ practise. Writing about the first appearance of the “figure” in 1994, she said “for me, the piece is a self portrait”. The same might be said of each subsequent work. In his photos, Fecht shows the artist as she enacts, and marks out, again and again, that “figure assigned to her”. In 2007 finally both artists collaborated on a new portrait series of fine art prints fusing drawing and photography, presented for the first time in this show.

Paul Raguenes paintings are saturated of pigments and appear on first glace as pure monochromes before they start to change silently colors, questioning our perception to make us look closer - much closer. The way his work transmits colour fools every perception; his use of pigments recalls the ephemeral quality of an aura, which prefers voluntarily to disappear when curiosity gets close or too close - like his paintings which are literally destroyed once touched. The same can be observed with his unique Monospy sculptures. Due to their intriguing reflections they tend to transform immediately into site specific Interventions, silent catalysts between the gallery, the viewer and the works shown in the space. Portraiture moves away from representation to learn about the unknown, the alien and other.

Linda Karshan shows internationally since 2000. Museums exhibitions include Sir John Soane’s Museum (2002), Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, (2003) Tang Museum, Saragota Springs, New York, (2007). Her galleries are in Munich, Cologne, London, New York and San Fransisco. She is included in the following public collections: The British Museum, Tate Gallery London, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Fog Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and many various private collections.

Tom Fecht works as a photographer and sculptor in London and Berlin, his work is represented in the National Gallery in Berlin, his European land art project Mémoire nomade started at Documenta IX. His recent synaesthetic experiments photo acoustic installations in collaboration with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. He currently conducts long term research on projection and photography as a design tool and heuristic toy at the Royal College of Art in London.

Paul Raguenes works as a sculptor and painter in France, he shows internationally since 1994. Museum exhibitions include Hebert Museum, Grenoble, France (1996), Paul Dini Museum, Villefranche/ Saone, France (Permanent collection) and Ludwig Museum, Koblentz, Germany (2005). He's also represented by galleries in Geneva, Amsterdam, Dusseldorf and Vienna. He is included in the following public collections: Paul Dini Museum, City of Lyon, Arthotèque of Lyon, Insinger de Beaufort Bank, Akso Nobel, De Sede, Rhone-Poulenc and many private collections.

Vanessa Suchar has been showing international emerging artists in private homes, an ideal setting that helps break through the many barriers surrounding contemporary art. She provides a comfortable learning environment, while letting art-enthusiasts imagine how a piece of art would look in their own house. On November 24th she will open MEWS 42 as her first permanent Gallery space, located 42 Princes Gate Mews, in London, SW7, close to the Victoria and Albert Museum. “English Snog-French Kiss” will be the inaugurating two men show by Cedric Christie at Documenta XIII in Kassel this year and Paul Raguenes.

For further information and images, please contact: Vanessa Suchar phone +44 (0)7887 991932

Eyestorm is acknowledged as the leading online retailer of limited edition contemporary art prints. Founded in 1999, the company was set up to offer art by some of the world’s best known artists at affordable prices by publishing high quality limited edition prints. Eyestorm located at a spacious warehouse gallery adjacent to Tate Modern in London's Bankside district on the South Bank of the Thames.

Eyestorm Gallery
Unit 4 Bankside Estate, 5-11 Sumner Street, SE1 9JZ London
Opening times: 10am to 6 pm Monday to Friday Noon to 5pm Saturdays and Sundays and by appointment
tube: Southwark, Waterloo or London Bridge in front of Tate Modern

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