John Isaacs
dal 14/11/2001 al 19/1/2002
Segnalato da
14/11/2001
John Isaacs
Aeroplastics Contemporary, Bruxelles
'Voices from the id' is the first Belgian exhibition of recent works by the Young British Artist John Isaacs. This extensive solo exhibition will include Isaacs' recent sculptural works and a video screening of "The Turning Point", Isaac's documentary film recording the incredible experiment he produced in 1999/2000, designed to determine the effects of the new millennium on the animal kingdom.
Voices from the id
AEROPLASTICS is pleased to present "Voices from the id," the first
Belgian exhibition of recent works by the Young British Artist John Isaacs.
This extensive solo exhibition will include Isaacs' recent sculptural works
Â"Is more than this more than this", "Clever Kid" and "voices from the id",
along with 20 recent photographic works. Aeroplastics will also be exhibiting
a video screening of "The Turning Point", Isaac's documentary film recording
the incredible experiment he produced in 1999/2000, designed to determine the
effects of the new millennium on the animal kingdom, by observing the change of
behaviour of Fiddler crabs found in the mangrove swamps of Trinidad.
Five months in production, "Is more than this more than this" represents a
return to the absurd figuration first seen in Isaacs' 1996 exhibition at the
Saatchi gallery in London, combined with the viscerally grotesque themes
explored
in later anatomical works.
In this way Isaacs presents a figure as both micro-
and
macro- cosm, an individual viewed from a fused societal and individual
perspective.
A contemporary vision of the classical figure of Atlas who no longer carries the
Globe on his shoulders, but incorporates it into his being, so as to both
support
and inhabit it simultaneously.
In a world dominated by ego, both cultural and individual, Isaacs
selfconsciously
questions the institutions set in place to bolster this historically perpetuated
perspective, while at the same time recognising the absurdity of his desire to
have
yet another voice included in the momentum of the debate.
Though his work often
utilises a cutting black humour, it never breaks from the aesthetic spectacle
necessary to seduce the viewer. In this way his work cuts through
preconceptions,
leaving the spectator in no doubt that they are viewing something not only of
recognisable, but of interest.
Shying away from a politicised polemic if there is a point to be made, it is
beaten
to a pulp in the works production and concealed behind a cubistic inclusionary
mental
agility Isaacs prefers instead to lead us through familiar territory to a place
of
which we may have lost sight.
For Isaacs art doesn't exist as the starting point
of a
dialectically progressive discourse but as "the threadbare scrap of evidence
upon which
to hang the argument for an emotional continuity from cave to capital."
opening preview Thursday 15th of NOV 18.00-22 .00
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