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CHISENHALE GALLERY: Tariq Alvi - 11 Sept 2009 to 25 Oct 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Tariq Alvi 11 September � 25 October 2009 Preview Thursday 10 September, 6.30 � 8.30pm Chisenhale Gallery presents The Meaning, a major solo exhibition by British artist Tariq Alvi. Working intuitively, recycling and re-contextualizing found printed matter from newspapers and magazine advertising, Alvi�s labour-intensive works present us with both disarmingly simple and complex aesthetic forms that reflect upon contemporary society. Alvi presents a group of sculptures, paintings and collages that meditate on the relationships between economy, sexuality, desire and materiality. One key work in the exhibition incorporates Alvi�s characteristic formal motif of hundreds of cut-out prices from magazines and trade fliers, here arranged around the imposing form of a three-metre long tree trunk. Dyslexic Dancer maps out an abstract depiction of sexuality and desire, its plate glass surface, splicing a mirrored cube, is adorned with nebulous colourful forms constructed out of torn up pages from gay club magazines; the visceral grubbiness of these figures butts up against mannered references to the tasteful formality of minimalist forms. Mirrors also feature in a large wall-based work, a version of which Alvi first made in Club Oase in Maastricht in 1997, onto which are collaged cut-outs of male and female models, which both articulate and disrupt the potential for self-reflection. The works in The Meaning all shift restlessly between surface and subject matter and Alvi consciously plays with a disjuncture between the two in the way he appropriates and juxtaposes images and information. The exhibition�s title work comprises a painting produced by a professional painter, copied and dramatically enlarged from a collage made by Alvi incorporating pages torn from an interiors magazine depicting glass doorknobs piled on plates like sweets; this exaggerated image of consumer culture�s economy of luxury goods becomes even more excessive and strange in its painted manifestation. An accompanying print work, also based on one of Alvi�s collages and further ornamented with more cut-out magazine prices, implicates the body in the machinations of economic exchange and the hierarchies of value � of appropriation and hand craftsmanship � engendered in the processes of production. Tariq Alvi is a British artist based in London. Solo exhibitions include Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2009); 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco (2008); Cabinet, London (2007); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2005) and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2001). TALKS & EVENTS Thursday 1 October, 7pm Adrian Rifkin, Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths University discusses his current research, in particular the notion of �incompletion� in relation to Tariq Alvi�s exhibition. Saturday 10 October, 2pm Tariq Alvi in conversation with Polly Staple, Director, Chisenhale Gallery. Thursday 22 October, 7pm A screening of artists� film and video selected by Tariq Alvi. Saturday 24 October, 2pm Richard Birkett, Assistant Curator, ICA leads a tour of the exhibition. Opening hours Wednesday � Sunday 1 � 6pm Thursday 1 October until 9pm Chisenhale Gallery is a registered charity no. 1026175 |
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