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4/5/2004

Two exhibitions

T1+2 Gallery, London

Alexander Costello
'All You Need To Know Right Now'
5th May - 4th June 2004

Alexander Costello works with a wide range of materials, approaches and techniques both as a solo artist and in his numerous collaborative projects, For the present exhibition Costello has produced a series of large-scale site-specific paintings concerning themes such as linguistic ambiguity, escape, and the brusque contingencies of everyday life. Borrowing his imagery from Italian comic books, the artist has added to each of these vignettes - of speeding cars, women, cowboy punch-ups and ejector seats - two texts. Bluntly tautological or plainly idiotic, these appended snatches of language critically disrupt the visual images' "obvious" meanings, reframing them whilst being themselves affected by the highly stylised pictures over which they are placed. The resulting juxtapositions of text and image generate a complicated play of linguistic and visual signs, a volatile interchange which is by turns puzzling, interrogative, comical and melancholic.

T1+2 will also screen Costello's performative video piece "I Don't do Painting".

All You Need to Know Right Now is Alexander Costello's first solo exhibition. He is also currently showing at Gallerie Une, Neuchatel, Switzerland and will be exhibiting at The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand in July 2004.

Image: Leather

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Tom Ellis
'Unsupported Images'
5th May - 4th June 2004

Tom Ellis's work is concerned with physical structures and their representation, with the conventions, parameters and mechanisms of encountering and perceiving the world about us. Employing and manipulating mundane, overly familiar objects, Ellis aims to make apparent the very act of looking itself, paradoxically achieving this through a carefully structured staging involving optical illusion and the stark physical presentation of the actual object he has chosen to represent.

In "Stack" a number of plastic garden chairs are arranged in a series of unequal stacks which are supported upside down on specially constructed wooden stands. The arrangement is such that the inverted feet of each stack are aligned at precisely the same height. By this inversion the stacks are transformed into an optical, rather than physical event, an image captured, upside down, on the viewer's retina

For "Tank" Ellis has built a rectilinear structure from MDF, assembling the piece in such a way that it appears to be a storage tank half filled with water. The tension between the resulting illusion and the blunt physicality of the material employed is pushed to its limit point, resulting in an object that is located between optical deception and an independent physical entity in its own right.

Tom Ellis's recent exhibitions include a solo show at Percy Miller Gallery, London, 2003, and participation in a two-person presentation at Kontainer, Los Angeles, 2004. He also contributed to Urban Networks, installed at the Courtauld Institute, London, in 2003. Ellis is represented by Percy Miller Gallery.

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