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Leo Fitzmaurice
dal 16/6/2011 al 30/9/2011

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16/6/2011

Leo Fitzmaurice

The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall

You Try to Tell Me but I Never Listen. This site-specific installation has been created in response to the architecture of the gallery's stunning Floor 4 Gallery. Fitzmaurice collects, edits and re-presents the visual noise that forms part and parcel of 21st century life. For his exhibition he will transform the gallery space into a sea of colour through the use of mass produced printed material.


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The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted to present a new commission by British artist Leo Fitzmaurice. This site-specific installation has been created in response to the architecture of the gallery’s stunning Floor 4 Gallery.

Leo Fitzmaurice collects, edits and re-presents the visual noise that forms part and parcel of 21st century life. For his solo exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall, he will transform the gallery space into a sea of colour through the use of mass produced printed material. By carefully layering the printed matter, Leo will animate the abundance of advertising information which we subconsciously register and recognise.

Over 3000 flyers and leaflets will be used to cover the gallery walls. The colours and content of each piece of print will be carefully chosen and pieced together to create the sense of a horizon-line, extending out of the Gallery and across Walsall’s skyline – hinting at the prevalence of this sort of material within our everyday lives.

Leo’s use of repetition suggests an element of speed or motion; of driving through a city at night and subliminally registering the information which fleetingly passes by. His sculptures allude to Zoetropes (early animation devices) as multiple copies of the same flyer are painstakingly folded to bring a new sense of narrative to the redundant material: performers are cloned as their faces are mirrored and repeated, and landscape views become never-ending, self contained worlds.

Leo brings an audience face-to-face with advertising material. This confrontational stance allows us to challenge its commercial powers and in Leo’s acts of manipulation, he subverts the advertising messages insisting: “you try to tell me but I never listen”.

Leo Fitzmaurice lives and works in Liverpool. Recent projects include Panoramia at The Lowry, Salford (Solo Show, 2010) and group exhibitions Niet Normaal, De Beurs Van Berlag, Amsterdam (2009/10), The Way We Do Art Now, Tanya Leighton Gallery Berlin (2010) and Undone at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2010).

A special evening viewing of Leo Fitzmaurice, You Try to Tell Me but I Never Listen, will take place on Thursday 7 July 2011, 6-8pm, to coincide with the launch of Mark Titchner’s solo exhibition, BE TRUE TO YOUR OBLIVION.

The New Art Gallery Walsall is run and maintained by Walsall Council and also receives significant financial support from Arts Council England.

Image credit: You Try to Tell Me but I Never Listen, Installation Detail, 2011. Courtesy of the Artist.

Press contact:
Chris Wilkinson, Marketing and Development Assistant on 01922 654416 or email: wilkinsonc@walsall.gov.uk

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