Tim Ayres
dal 20/2/2009 al 27/3/2009
Segnalato da
20/2/2009
Tim Ayres
Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
To increase on return. The show will bring together the three central motifs of his oeuvre - figure, text and abstract works. The main focus however is on the paintings referring to body and portrait. The erotic aspects of these canvases create a particular tension in the context of the very technical and deliberate way in which the works are accomplished.
For the second time we are showing a solo exhibition of the British painter Tim Ayres
(1965 Hastings, GB).
The show will bring together the three central motifs of his oeuvre – figure, text
and abstract works.
The main focus however is on the paintings referring to body and portrait. The
erotic aspects of these paintings create a particular tension in the context of the
very technical and deliberate way in which the works are accomplished.
The viewer is also emotionally drawn to the strongly associative text works (I feel
sure that my parents didn’t mean to leave me there and Teeter shudder tremble
falling whoosh!). Childhood memories are aroused and pictures triggered in the
viewer’s imagination. Even the completely abstract works of the show refer to the
body images and their latent eroticism - they show strongly abstract, geometric
sections of nylon tights, altered in colour.
In early 2007 Tim Ayres radically reduced his palette in search of new colours,
deciding to only employ a CMYK system similar to that used in commercial printing
processes. The idea being that if, in printed matter, any colour can be made through
combining cyan, magenta, yellow and black (and the white of the paper) then wasn't
that possible with paint?
"To increase on return" brings together a group of these paintings.
But also in other areas of his working process Ayres avails himself of the
techniques of a graphic designer, compiling computer templates based on photographs
or designs and mounting these templates on MDF carrier plates before finally coating
them with special lacquer.
Opening: Saturday, 21.02.2009, 6-10pm
Galerie Martin Mertens
Brunnenstrasse 185 - Berlin
Tuesday to Saturday 12:00 to 18:00 & by prior arrangement
Free admission