In Splendid Isolation
dal 17/5/2002 al 30/6/2002
Segnalato da
17/5/2002
In Splendid Isolation
Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
Helen Maurer and Sarah Woodfine will present new work playing with perception and illusion. Helen’s projections and Sarah’s pencil drawings create images that invite the viewer to escape to spaces of desire and isolation where memory and imagination converge.
Helen Maurer continues to investigate the properties of light and glass using overhead projectors and fibre optics to create
scenes drawn from memories: caravan camping sites, deckchairs, domestic interiors and more recently scenes through the
forest. Glass objects and layers of glass sheets are arranged on projectors and shelves so that the light source casts or reflects
an image on to a wall. The glass elements appear awkward and clumsy yet the resulting images read perfectly. Notwithstanding
the emphatic sophistication of its construction Helen's work allude to a snapshot quality that triggers a sense of loss. With the
fragile glass objects visible that form the luminous scenes on the wall, the apparent ease of the image conjures a quality in which
one feels invited to slip through a kind of looking glass.
Sarah Woodfine's intense meticulous pencil drawings of buildings emerge from a pitch black slipping between two and
three-dimensional realities. Her new work for the show depicts flat-pack models of Tudor-style barns and cottages which we will
want to touch and construct in our mind's eye. However there is something disarming and unsettling about Sarah's imagery that
makes us hesitate to fully embrace her invite to play. These flat-pack drawings are not fully functional and point toward an illogical
place, a shadowy realm or dark dream where apparitions reach out and where things are askew and off-kilter.
Both artists use two and three dimensionalities to tease our mind and disturb the familiar with unease and magic.
A catalogue with an essay by Marco Livingstone will be published.
Helen Maurer completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1997. Selected exhibitions: 2002 Solid Air, Crafts Council, London; Unscene,
Gasworks, London; 2001 A Month in the Garden, Museum of Garden History, London; Solo show, Danielle Arnaud, London; 2000 Is there
Anybody Home? Gallery Westland Place, (touring to Galerie Z?rcher, Paris); 1999 Quotidian, Paper Bag Factory, London; Casting Installing, The
National Glass Centre, Sunderland. Commissions: Royal Holloway College in collaboration with Kinnear Landscape Architects; Chandelier for the
Royal Geographical Society. Helen Maurer was Fellow in Glass at Central Saint Martins College of Art, London 1994-95
Helen Maurer was supported by The London Institute and London Arts for this exhibition.
Sarah Woodfine graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 1995. Recent exhibitions: 2002 By Hand, Hales Gallery, London; 2001 A Month
in the Garden, Museum of Garden History, London; Xmas, Outline, Amsterdam; America, Gallery Westland Place, London; hit & run, The Old Seager
Distillery, London; The Difference between You and Us, Five Years, London; 2000 Solo show Five Years (Danielle Arnaud), London; There is
Plenty of Sunshine in Summer, Outline, Amsterdam; 1999 Perfume, Danielle Arnaud, London; HÃ¥ Gamle Prestegard, Norway, Haugesund
Billedgalleri, Norway. She was selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2001 and is a finalist for the Pizza Express Prospects 2002.
Image: Helen Maurer, Over Exposed 2002. Overhead projector, glass, perspex
Danielle Arnaud contemporary art 123 Kennington Road London SE11 6SF UK
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