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studio 1.1: 'Myth and Market' - 12 July 2013 to 4 Aug 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Michael Armitage
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MICHAEL ARMITAGE and JOHN TINEY 'Myth and Market' 12 July - 4 August 2013 private view Thursday 11 July 6 - 9 pm From Kenya to Los Angeles a society is re-configured by its mythologies: TV, cartoons, graffiti extend the oral traditions. 'Today I saw...' rather than 'Once upon a time there was...' is the story-teller's lapel-grabbing gambit. The fragmentary nature of contemporary narrative echoes the damaged frieze or disintegrating wall-painting we have more confidence in interpreting. The modern story unravels in the telling. In each artist's work there's a strong - and literal - tie with the materiality of place. John Tiney's 'New Labour, the Value Paintings' (made in Los Angeles and each with its bespoke bag commissioned from a local bag-maker) confronts sun-drenched, dreamed-up yet oddly fossilised or de-faced and de-racinated admen's alien characters with the language of gestural abstraction. Michael Armitage's tropical canvases (made from Ugandan tree-bark cloth) entwine classical references with forest lianas - for both artists a secure and sophisticated view of a different world. Tales are made visible, conjured from traditions that have become mobile, global, new. studio1.1 57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ tubes: Shoreditch High St/Liverpool St/Old St bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388 email: [email protected] tel: 07952 986696 web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk open: Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm or by appointment |
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