Salon Vertigo
dal 3/12/2001 al 24/12/2001
Segnalato da
3/12/2001
Salon Vertigo
Clapham Art Gallery, London
Michèle Noach is a very distinctive printmaker-artist and Clapham Art Gallery is delighted to present her first retrospective show, 'Salon Vertigo'. New work will be shown alongside selected pieces from the last thirteen years. So we are given a view from the outside looking in on an invented world that holds relevant to the one in which we live. Simplification of form and colour provides us with a 'single cell from an animation that doesn't exist'. The animation that doesn't exist is the mind of the artist that is commentator as well as illustrator.
MICHELE NOACH
Michèle Noach is a very distinctive printmaker-artist and Clapham Art
Gallery is delighted to present her first retrospective show, 'Salon
Vertigo'. New work will be shown alongside selected pieces from the last
thirteen years.
Ms Noach was born in Paddington, Australia and moved through her
formative years between Australia, Holland and USA. She arrived in
London around the age of seven years with her Dutch/Hungarian parents.
Michèle's sensibility is informed by a heightened awareness of events
and influences that have impacted or surrounded her throughout her life,
the most obvious being an aptly early introduction to children's
illustration.
'Cat in the Hat' by Dr. Seuss, Angela Banner's 'Ant +
Bee', and Ronald Searle's 'Molesworth' are particularly relevant
examples. Combine with this a leaning toward Eastern European animation,
Warner Bros. (especially Tex Avery) and strip cartoons (specifically
Herriman's 'Krazy Kat' and more recently Spiegelman's 'Raw' magazine), a
near-death electric shock and Punk Rock and we arrive somewhere closer
to Noach's world.
Add the experience of being a crossword compiler for
NME in the 1980's and a qualification in British Sign Language that
denotes an obvious interest in verbal and non-verbal codes. Combine this
again with a satirical and ironic but humanist sense of observation and
we arrive at Noach's strangely populated landscape.
Her work is simple, clever and full of wise wit.
Words and drawing are
of equal relevance as one reinforces the other, illustrated by poetic
titles such as 'Bunny Wouldn't Melt', 'Room to Think' and 'I Believe in
Absolutely Everything' or slogans within the works such as 'Could Try
Harder' or 'Too Thin, Too Rich'.
Invented characters that may or may not
be repeated in later work appeal to and communicate directly with our
ironic selves. They are instantly engaging and amusing but possess a
double-edged tone that implies a more sinister perspective.
So we are given a view from the outside looking in on an invented world
that holds relevant to the one in which we live.
Simplification of form
and colour provides us with a 'single cell from an animation that
doesn't exist'.
The animation that doesn't exist is the mind of the
artist that is commentator as well as illustrator.
Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 1-9pm Sun 1-5pm
clapham art gallery
61 venn street london SW4 0BD
020 7720 0955