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Studio Voltaire: Alistair Frost/ Simone Gilges/ Matthew Smith | PROJECT SPACE: Thomas Ravens - 21 June 2008 to 20 July 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Alistair Frost, one/word/look/<>balcon, 2008,
Oil on Canvas (courtesy of Dicksmith Gallery, London) |
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GALLERY: Alistair Frost/ Simone Gilges/ Matthew Smith 21st June � 20th July 2008, Thursday � Sunday, 12�6pm Preview: Friday 20th June, 6-9pm Studio Voltaire is pleased to present a three-person exhibition of new works by Alistair Frost, Simone Gilges and Matthew Smith. Although the artists will present autonomous bodies of work, they share an approach to artists production by working in a variety of media, exploring signs and codes, and playing with (dis)associations, meanings and hidden narratives. Alistair Frost employs imagery depicting a series of recurring images, symbols and signs, combining elemental codes to construct word games, rebuses and connections between words and their visual representation. There is little relation between the quantity or accumulation of these motifs and an understanding of the picture when assembled. Simple motifs which are often rooted in surrealism, such as the umbrella or the bowler hat becomes a palm tree, or martini glass, or a woman�s groin repeatedly feature in Frosts� paintings, drawings, prints and slide-shows. Simone Gilges is an artist based in Berlin who works with photography and fabrics to create sculptural reliefs and installation works. Recent works include portraits swathed in cloth alongside objects which exist to compliment the initial significance of the photographs. In her installations, Gilges provides specific moods to suggest techniques of disguise, and questions staged and real scenarios. The combination of single photographs with objects and draperies distort the chronological and historical meanings. Gilges suggests and implies on subjects of social behaviour without providing the spectator with a clear narrative. Matthew Smith�s sculptural work is predominantly made from everyday objects, which he them manipulates or transforms with a sleight hand. In previous works, Smith has subtly added to or removed elements from objects such as nails, duvets, record covers, and magazine pages, transforming them in order to destabilise their original presence and function. The sculptures� original purpose seem undermined, rather than deconstructed or rendered functionless, and through this gentle manipulation the objects become an adulterated version of their former selves, stopping some way short of the finality of entropy. PROJECT SPACE: Thomas Ravens No Landscape in the News of the World 21st June � 20th July 2008, Thursday � Sunday, 12�6pm Preview: Friday 20th June, 6-9pm Studio Voltaire is pleased to announce Thomas Ravens� first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom. The exhibition has been realised as a part of the International Residency Programme, which is made in collaboration with the Berlin Senate�s Department of Science, Research and Culture, the Whitechapel Gallery and Studio Voltaire. Each year, a Berlin based artist is provided with a studio, stipend, accommodation and professional development for a 10 month period, culminating in a public presentation. Ravens current practice almost exclusively focuses on fictitious landscapes and spaces, often incorporating �found objects� which reference modernist architecture and film landscapes. Working in varying scales, often directly on the wall, the exhibition at Studio Voltaire will feature a new wall painting/ installation as well as a number of works on paper. For his last exhibition at Barbara Wien, Berlin in 2007, the artist presented a series of works on paper that cited a number of references; such as Fritz Lang�s Metropolis and the 90�s sci-fi film Contact, architecture landscapes from Las Vegas and Shanghai and art world objects from Peter Friedl and Cosima von Bonin. Although the works often suggest a familiar utopian or distopian space, the imagined narrative within the works is left unclear with the suggested configurations of references. Previous solo exhibitions include Barbara Wien, Berlin (2007 /2005) and Michel Soskine inc., Madrid (2006). Notable group presentations include Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2005) and Kunstverein Wolfsburg (2007). The artist was also co-founded the independent project space WBD, Berlin (2000-2005). The exhibition has been financially supported by the Berlin Senate, Department of Science, Research and Culture. In collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, London |
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