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28/3/2002

versus

The Centre of Attention, London

The Centre of Attention presents versus 3 short consecutive exhibitions, each presenting 2 different artists vs brings together 2 artists working in different disciplines vs is a clash, a complement, a synthesis, a blind date and throws up a new visual stimulus, a new mental conundrum and fresh ideas. vs highlights the fierce competition of the art world, altogether as fierce as biological or commercial imperatives.
vs: someone has to win.

1.Thomas Raschke vs Abigail Durrant
Private view on Thursday 14th March 2002, 7 to 9 pm
Exhibition running to 24th March, Thursdays to Sundays, 2 to 7 pm

2.Tai Shani vs Kristian Hornsleth
Private view on Thursday 29th March 2002, 7 to 9 pm
Exhibition running to 7th April, Thusdays to Sundays, 2 to 7 pm

3.Otiose vs Marty St James
Private view on Thursday 11th April 2002, 7 to 9 pm
Exhibition running to 14th April, 2 to 7 pm

Kristian Hornsleth vs Tai Shani

Tai Shani
Tai Shani studied fashion design and fashion photography in New York and Tel Aviv where she has worked for major style magazines. She has shown her work at the Haifa Museum, at the Haus am Lützowplatz and at Novalog, Berlin. In 2001, she had a solo show "Axl Rose you rock my world" at the Tal Esther Gallery, Tel-Aviv. She recently moved to London.

Tai Shani's videos, photographs and installations reflect the construction of gender. They especially examine how a body becomes sexed. They do not only recreate the female body from the viewpoint of "to-be-looked-at", but they also exemplify the deformation of body and identity resulting from this perspective. They thereby underline the power of definition that fashion has and portray pop as a field on which this power is executed.

Kristian Hornsleth
"Selected posters, large photocopies and other readymade materials are mounted on the canvas as contextual background. An important feature is the cut holes. Most of the work has been brutally cut and heavily scratched with sharp objects. This action is an intention to add an extra color, an additional branding control and not mention a Fontanian and Twomblyan fartherly respect."

"The concept was from the begining to combine an extreme subjective Rorschackian drive for painting itself with a conceptual idea to adapt an over visible brand-ID. All in line of the general research of the deconstruction of the power distribution between art viewer, producer, buyer and opinion makers."

"The paintings are mostly heavy expressionistic overkillish as well as sensational and statement oriented. With time this style has proven itself to have a market to well of-young-self-confident-business-types-who-normally-thinks-that-art-is fucking-boring."

"A consistent sales channel was opened. Some buyers and gallerists complained a little about the branding in the form of a huge Hornsleth signature which covered up to a third of the painting, but this proved not to be a problem of the consumer interest. After a while most of the art lovers who has bought a Hornsleth work tells us that they see the brand as an equal component in the painting composition." Hornsleth

Kristian Hornsleth has been shown extensively on the continent and in New York. This is his first London show.

Image: Tai Shani

The Centre of Attention
15 Cotton's Gardens, London E2 8DN

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