Charlie Woolley
dal 16/4/2008 al 24/5/2008
Segnalato da
16/4/2008
Charlie Woolley
David Risley Gallery, London
I Built my House on Sand
David Risley Gallery is proud to present the first solo
exhibition by London born artist Charlie Woolley.
In this exhibition Woolley brings together a collection of
images and objects with thematic connections. He asks the question
'what can be done with the images which we are confronted by everyday?'
Sometimes this question is in response to simple desires: to chart the
histories of the instruments and memorabilia of musicians ranging from
bands such as Black Flag to convict blues musician Robert Pete
Williams. At other times it is
in response to the flickering screens of television sets. Here they
are frozen into photographs, exposing moments of beauty and
technological anomaly as colour explodes through the expanded pixels
of black & white film stills. In other works the TV's surface
sends brightly coloured images into swirls of moiré distorting and
disturbing the image and one's vision.
This question also extends to images which do not confront us
so obviously, but instead those that are partially hidden and must be
sought out. A love letter is blown out of all proportion; the
handwriting replaced by a typeface bereft of sentiment, and with the
essential words replaced with a line hinting at what might have been
said.
A series of landscapes depicting solitary buildings are
blown-up low quality digital files found on an internet search engine,
the buildings themselves have been removed exposing a second image
underneath, which retains the shape of the thing that is no-longer
there. These images are inspired by architectural palimpsests, a
phenomenon so common in London, a city ever haunted by more and more
ghosts.
I Built my House on Sand is an exhibition in which nothing is
stable. The house was not built on sand through foolishness or by
accident, but with the knowledge that we must always be prepared to
let what we have go, and start again.
Preview 17 April 2008
David Risley Gallery
45 Vyner Street, London
Opening times: Wednesday - Sunday 12.00pm - 6.00pm or by appointment.
Free admission