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Minimal Excess 3 - 24 Feb 2012 Start time: 11:00 End time: 17:00 |
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| Website: | http://www.openealing.com |
| Location: |
Ealing
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| Organiser: |
113 Uxbridge Road
Ealing
020 8579 5558
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| Cost: | FREE |
| Age Range: | all ages |
| Artforms: |
 Visual Arts and Designer Makers
Painter / 2D
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John Wilkins, Claude Temin-Vergez, Miho Sato, Michal Sluslakowicz, Matthew Draper, Juan Bolivar, Philip Booth. This exhibition is looking at the work of artists across at least 3 painting generations. The pieces presented embrace a sense of the mundane and overlooked and turn it into quiet monumentalism. Sometimes inconspicuous images are morphed into instant icons as in the work of Sato. Her distinctive reduced palette gives those seemingly familiar images the look of classic timeless memories. Draper finds interest in the dissolute private live of silently wild domestic items. The tiny details of everyday life in his work are turned into dangerous ‘fantasia-like’ arrangement leaving the viewer unsure of whether he should feel seduced or threatened. A sense of humour is also latent in the work and shared by Wilkins and Bolivar’s approach. These works seem to scrutinise an exhausted sense of modernist aesthetic and turn it into ridiculously sublime compositions. Vergez takes the enemy of modernism ‘par excellence’ namely decoration and turn it into a quiet monster, unsure of its status on the surface of the painting between pattern making and bulbous formation. While Booth and Sluslakowicz display high virtuosity in their depiction of calmly unsettling images full of uneasy sexual energy. |
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