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dal 3/2/2004 al 27/3/2004
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3/2/2004

Two exhibitions

T1+2 Gallery, London

Amikam Toren - Neither Bread nor Painting. This is the first public showing of Amikam Toren's Neither Bread nor Painting, a group of five tautological paintings which have been made from the insides of loaves of bread. Mark Aerial Waller's Reversion of the Beast Folk is a film, a piece for fluorescent strip lights, an expanded foam cave, and a selection of masks and drawings of movie icons.


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Amikam Toren
Neither Bread nor Painting
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Mark Aerial Waller
Reversion of the Beast Folk

Amikam Toren - Neither Bread nor Painting

This is the first public showing of Amikam Toren's Neither Bread nor Painting, a group of five tautological paintings which have been made from the insides of loaves of bread. Having been turned into a fine powder this material, employed as an unconventional but effective pigment, was mixed with water to produce paint, then applied to the canvas using both hands. With the canvases flat on the floor the loaves' crusty exteriors, now resembling the surfaces of shiny ceramic vessels, were placed upon them and one of these was accordingly decorated. Neither Bread nor Painting was completed in 1996. In order to preserve the work it was coated with acrylic medium and resin the following year.

Amikam Toren has exhibited widely, both internationally and in the UK. His work was included in the influential survey exhibition Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75 (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 2000). Toren's solo exhibition Clouds in Trousers is currently showing at Imperial College, London (29th January - 27th February) as part of the programme Artlab 29.

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Mark Aerial Waller - Reversion of the Beast Folk

Mark Aerial Waller's Reversion of the Beast Folk is a film, a piece for fluorescent strip lights, an expanded foam cave, and a selection of masks and drawings of movie icons. The film opens with the view from the passenger seat of a Lamborghini Countach, which screeches through traffic on an endless highway, passing cars inside and out. Cutting to a barren landscape, two figures are seen to emerge from behind a rock and meander through the depth of field. Here Waller, who approaches his work through the reading of classic literature, employs H.G. Wells' endlessly perverted The Island of Doctor Moreau as his field of agitation.

Reversion of the Beast Folk concerns the conquest of new territory, pre-judgement and swift punishment, and the laying down of a New Law. For the film's soundtrack Waller employs Beethoven's Emperor in collision with recordings of the camera's own mechanism. The work climazes with Brazilian Umbanda, music for religious ritual dedicated to the goddess of sex, Pomba Gira, with the gallery bathed in red fluorescents for the entr'acte.

As well as being an artist interested in producing densely coded filmworks that are open to a complex range of interpretations Waller also operates The Wayward Canon, a flexible platform for the critical re-evaluation of cinematic practices. Recent exhibitions to which he has contributed include Traversees (Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002) and Changing Times (Tate Britain, London 2003).

Image: Still from Reversion of the Beast Folk

Private View: Tue 3 Feb 7pm - 9pm

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