Two exhibitions
dal 4/12/2008 al 7/2/2009
Segnalato da
4/12/2008
Two exhibitions
Camden Arts Centre, London
In his meticulously executed paintings and photographs, Daan van Golden seeks out beauty in the insignificant, using motifs from everyday life and themes from the history of art. For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Andro Wekua has created a new installation: his coloured works have an innate melancholy; they read on multiple levels like poems, meanings are revealed slowly to leave a haunting atmosphere.
Daan van Golden
Red or Blue
Exhibition curated by Anne Potégnie and organised by Camden Arts Centre in collaboration with Mamco, Geneva and Culturgest, Lisbon.
Renowned and celebrated in The Netherlands since the 1960s, Daan van Golden opens his first solo exhibition in the UK at Camden Arts Centre. In his meticulously executed paintings and photographs he seeks out beauty in the insignificant, using motifs from everyday life and themes from the history of art.
The exhibition includes over thirty paintings from the 1960’s to the present and a number of photographs with a selection from the series 'Youth is an art', images van Golden took of his daughter as she was growing up from 1978 – 1996.
Van Golden’s style is based on appropriation, using motifs such as decorative wallpaper and fabric, and later from the history of art. He paints these images and forms with meticulous precision, achieving an eccentrically flawless surface. These translations cross over a broad range of art strategies – from pop and photorealism to structural and conceptual art, minimalism to abstraction.
Daan van Golden was born in 1936 and lives and works in Schiedam, The Netherlands. Recent selected solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (2008); ‘Golden Years’ Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2006); Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp (2003); ‘Mitsukoshi’ Gemeente Museum, The Hague (2001) and ‘Tokyo 1964’ Galerie Brutto Gusto, Rotterdam (2000). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Anagramme’ Musée des Arts Contemporains Grand-Hornu and ‘The trace of a trace of a trace’ Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York (2006); ‘Verf’ Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, and ‘The Purloined Letter’ Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole (2004). Daan van Golden participated in ‘It happened tomorrow’ 7th Lyon Biennale of Comtemporary Art, Lyon (2003) and the XLVIII Venice Biennale, Dutch Pavilion, Venice (1999).
Exhibition Supported by the Mondriaan Foundation and
the Royal Netherlands Embassy
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Andro Wekua
My Bike and Your Swamp
For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Andro Wekua has created a new installation. Wekua’s richly coloured works have an innate melancholy. They read on multiple levels like poems, meanings are revealed slowly to leave a haunting atmosphere.
Wekua uses a variety of media and materials including sculpture, drawing, collage and film. He incorporates rubber with its casting properties to pick up the delicate differences of surfaces, and wax to accentuate the lifeless faces of mannequins like dejected puppets waiting to be animated.
Wekua employs the skill of the craft maker and the tradition of collage. He takes images from fashion magazines to create a unique visual poetry. Abstract passages of paint and colour trace features and accentuate forms. Compositions and contexts overwrite them with interlocking geometric shapes.
Andro Wekua (born Sochumi, Georgia, 1977) lives and works in Zurich and Berlin. He attended the National Art School of Sochumi (1989–1991), Gogebashvili Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia (1993–4) and the Visual Art School, Basel, Switzerland (1995–99). Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Lady Luck’ Gladstone Gallery, New York and ‘Sunset’ Le Magasin CNAC, Grenoble, for which he curated, with Daniel Baumann, a group show ‘I Love the Horizon’ (all 2008). ‘The Hydra Workshops’ Hydra, Greece; ‘Interlude’ Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich and ‘Wait to Wait’ Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (all 2007) and ‘I’m sorry if I’m not very funny tonight’ Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2006). Recent group shows include ‘Shifting Identities’ Kunsthaus Zürich and ‘Carnegie International’ Pittsburgh, (2008). Andro participated in the 4th Berlin Biennale and was also included in the group show ‘Archipeinture’ organised by Le Plateau, Frac Île-de-France, Paris and Camden Arts Centre, London (both 2006).
Organised in collaboration with De Hallen, Haarlem.
Exhibition supported by the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation and Pro Helvetia, Switzerland
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Image: Andro Wekua, Play without me, 2006. Felt pen, colour pencil and photocopy on photocopy 37.2 x 28.7 cm (14 5/8 x 11 1/4 inch), framed. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich Private Collection, Switzerland
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