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Volker Diehl: SIMON ENGLISH English Painting 2009 - 2010 ( below the belt ) - 21 Nov 2009 to 27 Feb 2010 Current Exhibition |
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SIMON ENGLISH
MEDICAL ROMANCE (but nurse was all alone in her own little soul), 2009 Oil on linen, 144x114cm |
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SIMON ENGLISH English Painting 2009 - 2010 ( below the belt ) OPENING Friday, November 20, 7-9 P.M. November 21, 2009 - February 27, 2010 Tuesday - Saturday, 11 A.M. - 6 P.M GALERIE VOLKER DIEHL is pleased to present English Painting 2009-2010 (below the belt). This will be the second solo exhibition at the gallery of the London based artist Simon English and will consist entirely of new works on canvas. Simon English emerged onto the London Art scene in 1994 with his first ever solo show Young British Art 3 at the Saatchi Gallery. In more recent years, he has become known for his large and small-scale works on paper which have been described as painted drawings and fit somewhere between the two. Lyrics and literature loom large in the work. Extracts from Jonathan Coe, John Betjeman, Annie Lennox and Barry McSweeney to name a few, combined with his story and history, twist and turn through the painted score. Seemingly random texts hijack the Image Bank and sets forth an emotional discourse to sad and comic effect. In Art in America, January 2007, Ana Finel Honigman states that �English resurrects lost images, connects loose references and makes beauty from pictorial chaos�. English Painting 2009 � 2010 goes a little below the belt. This is no survey show or genre that Simon would necessarily identify with. The paintings quite often break the rules from top to bottom. Indeed the work takes a swipe when you least expect it and when looking at the Painting referencing Barry McSweeney�s �The Book of Demons� you are left positively bruised and riddled with crabs. In the gate crashed Wedding of Laura Wingfield, the established use of oil on paper makes way for paper on oil. Each work has it�s own internal logic in which supposedly �high� and �low� become flattened onto one scene. It is hard to know at times, whether you are awake or dreaming, or if fantasy has superseded reality. Simon�s large loft Studio Space is situated above his flat. In the painting Upstairs Downstairs it is difficult to know whether you are in his painting space or the bedroom below, in a 1970�s Victorian Soap Drama, decoding a map of desire or addressing his proverbial �upstairs, downstairs�, above and below the belt. In Paul McCarthys 1974 �Penis dip painting�, associations of Renoir and the patriarchal tradition of painting come straight to mind. English describes returning to canvas as �feeling a bit like going back to an all male boarding school.� In the painting Lady Digby (The Rotters Club) (referring to Digby House, Sherborne School, Dorset ) English returns to puberty/ painting and describes growing breasts with the same bewilderment as when Mervin Peake�s Mr Pye grew wings. The exquisite corps of Lady Digby fights to find an ungainly balance between her male and female persona. This two-spirited hermaphrodite tries to reach reconciliation with her body and find a poetic alignment between drawing and painting. Her protrusive semi covered form is ludicrously serenaded by a prayer for swimming trunks (taken from a section in Jonathan Coe�s novel, �The Rotters Club�, set in a 1970�s school) from Benjamin, who not only finds a pair of swimming trunks in the locker room but God at the same time. English Painting 2009 � 2010 is the start of a new love affair. In Song for Painting, Galloway, where tableaux and still-life prop each other helplessly up, we are now led to believe that for Simon, Painting is �my first, my last, my everything�. In 2005, English�s work was included in the Contemporary Erotic Drawing Show at the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut and his monograph, �Simon English and the Army Pink Snowman� (Blackdog publishing) was released, with extensive essays by Bill Arning and Stella Santacatterina. Simon English has had solo exhibitions in London, Berlin, Zurich, Norway, Paris and most recently in New York. His work is in the collections of Agnes b, Paris, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, The Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, The Essl Collection, Vienna, The Museum of Israel, The Burger collection, The Furstorffer collection, The Arts Council Collection of Great Britain, The British Museum, London, The Paisley Museum, Scotland, The Saatchi Collection, The Schacter Collection and The U.K Government Art Collection amongst many other important collections. Born 1959 Lives and works in London Solo exhibitions 2009 English Painting 2009-2010 (Below the Belt), Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin 2008 Silverspoons and Dirty Grooms, Goff + Rosenthal, New York 2007 Lullaby for Marie-Strange, Letgo and Rabbit, Galerie du jour, agnes b., Paris Galerie R�merapotheke, Zurich Werke aus der Sammlung Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg 2006 Banks Cream and the Somerset Owls, FRED [London] LTD 2005 Open Country followed by Home Truths, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin Clouds Hill, Galerie R�merapotheke, Zurich 2004 Simon English Figures, Rhodes + Mann, London 2001 Nobody loves me, Galleri Christian Dam, Oslo, Norway 1999 Performance: Drawing Out Loud, Chisenhale Dance Space, London Chisenhale Live Arts Award 1998 Project Room, Milch, London Double and Twist, Laurent Delaye, London 1995 Entwistle Gallery and Laurent Delaye, London 1992 Laurent Delaye, London Group exhibitions 2009 The House of Fairy Tailes, The New Art Gallery Walsall, London Still Life, Rhys Mendes, Brazil New Acquisitions, The Lousiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark La colleciton d�art contemporain Agnes.b, Salon du dessin contemporain, Paris, France 2008 Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll, OSP Gallery, Steven Zevitas, Boston The Dulcet Clime of the Bedchamber�, Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin 2006 Scary Tales, Filiale Berlin Getting on mother�s nerves - psychological drama and contemporary drawing, Mother's Tank Station, Dublin Flip, Chung King Projects/ FA Projects, Los Angeles Simon and Sarah, Platform-3, London Today even the Drawers are Winners, Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin Thank you for the Music: Interfaces between Visual Arts and Music, Spruth Magers, Munich 2005 Erotic Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art and Touring, Ridgefield, USA Look, look again, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA Drawing, B�ro f�r Kunst, Dresden 2004 Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery, Walsall Je m� installe aux abattoirs!, Agn�s b. Her Private Collection, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse 2002 It�s Only Words, Mirror, London College of Printing, London The Green Room, Percy Miller Gallery, London 2001 It is a Wonderful Life, The Apartment, Athens Agn�s b., Galerie du Jour, Paris 2000 In Your Dreams, fa1 contemporary art, London Mommy Dearest, Gimpel Fils, London Include me Out, Unit 6, London 1999 Sampling, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York Il luogo degli Angeli, Ex Manufactura Tabaschi, Citta Sant�Angelo Passion, Gasworks, London 54 x 54, MOCA, curated by Michael Petry, Financial Times Building, London 1998 Body Double, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York Leisure, Glassbox, Paris Traffic of Night in Paradise, Vriefhuif Amerika, Amsterdam FIAC98, Galerie du Jour Agn�s b., Paris 1997 29eme Festival International de la Peinture, Le Mus�e de Cagnes-sur-Mer Afternoon in the Park, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London Victoria, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London 1994 Laurent Delaye Gallery at The Fete Worse than Death, London Young British III, Saatchi Collection, London 1989 pen Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London Four Day Display, Birch and Conran, London Collections Louisiana Museum, Denmark Essl Collection, Austria Falckenberg Collection, Germany Arts Council of England Saatchi Collection Paisley Museum, Scotland British Museum Agnes b Collection, France The Burger Collection, Switzerland The Schacter Collection The Government Art Collection The Museum of Israel Walsall Museum Bibliografie Newspapers and Periodicals Zeitungen und Zeitschriften 2009 Art Map Digital Magazine, Beijing, China, Issue 1, page 61-71 2008 Dazed and Confused, 10 page feature, volume 2, issue 67, November 2008 Useless Magazine, Kasia Bobula, �Simon Says,�issue 8, October 2008, p. 31 Art Review, �Mulberry Project,� October 2008 Dazed Digital, Ana Finel Honigman,�Simon English's Limited Edition Mulberry Bag,� October 1, 2008 style.com, Ana Finel Honigman, �Mulberry�s Take on the Tote,� September 29, 2008 The London Paper, Francesa Hornak, September 19, 2008 Art Review, Mark Rappolt, �Simon English: Lullaby for Marie-Strange, and Letgo Rabbit�, issue 19, February 2008, p. 127 2007 Art in America, Ana Finel Honigman, �Simon English at Fred�, January 2006 Modern Painters, Amanda Coulson, December 5-January 6 Saatchi Website, Daily Magazine, Interview with Rebecca Wilson Hello London, Interview with Peter Wolf, October Die Welt, Artist Profile �I Can�t draw Horses� Linda Bosse August 26 Financial Times, Gabriel Coxhead, �Crossing the Line� March 30 2005 Art Monthly, Andrew Wilson, �Winter reading�, Dec-Jan, 05-06 Gay Times, Joseph Galliano, October [Book Review] Modern Painters, Mark Rappolt, September [Book Review] Argus, Zuritipp, �Simon English, Clouds Hill, Galerie R�merapotheke� Art Review, Rebecca Wilson, July [Book Review] New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio, �The Erotic Goes Mainstream�, May 8 Art Forum, Larissa Harris, �Erotic Drawing�, Sept. 2004 Art Monthly, Pablo LaFuente, May 2004 Audio Arts Magazine, Volume 22, Interview with Kathy Kubicki Time Out London, Rebecca Geldard, April 21st - 28th Contemporary News London, Richard Dyer, April Art Review, Hannah Shuckburgh, �Be Yourself� (agn�s b. Collection), March 2002 Art Monthly, Mark Wilsher, March 2001 Attitude, Caroline Smith, 'Wonderland', May Athinorama, Despina Zefkili, April To Vima, Daily Newspaper, Katia Arfara, 6 April Symbol, Marina Fokidis, April Art Monthly, Michael Wilson, July � August Time Out London, Sarah Kent, June 7-14 Independent on Sunday, Sue Hubbard, June 4 2000 Evening Standard, Rose Aidin, May 26 1999 Time Out New York, Martha Schwendener, July 1-8 Smart City, New York, Edith Newhall, �Mad About Art�, 4 January 1998 Gay Times, James Carey Parkes, �Simon English: Body of Art�, August Time Out London, Sarah Kent, 22-29 July 1997 Time Out London, Mark Currah, 23-30 July 1996 Code, Richard Dyer, March 1995 Pink Paper, 19 & 26 June What�s On, Robin Dutt, 7 June Time Out London, Sue Hubbard, 7-14 June Independent, Ian Gale, 6 June Daily Telegraph, Georgina Adams, 25 February 1994 Art and Auction, Antony Haden-Guest, December .A. Magazine, Andrew Wilson, Winter Art Press, Richard Dyer, November Independent, Geraldine Norman, July Gay Times, Emmanuel Cooper, July Independent, Ian Gale, 28 June The Times, Richard Cork, February Time Out London, Sarah Kent, February Guardian, James Hall, 31 January Telegraph, Richard Dorment, January The Times, Catherine Milner, 28 January Financial Times, William Packer, 28 January 1993 Art Press, Richard Dyer, November Radio 1995 Kaleidoscope, Radio 4, Tim Marlow, 29 July 1994 Kaleidoscope, Radio 4, Tim Marlow, 4 February Catalogues 2005 Contemporary Erotic Drawing, exh. Cat, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, text by Stuart Horodner, Sara Kellner and Harry Philbrick 1999 Il Luogo degli Angeli, exh. Cat., text by Renato Bianchini 1997 29eme Festival International de la Peinture, Le Mus�e de Cagnes-sur-Mer, text by Mark Gisbourne 1994 Young British Artists III, Saatchi Collection, text by Sarah Kent Books 2009 Collection agnes b, JRP Ringier 2008 Male Nude Next, David Leddick, Rizzoli publishing Golden Rain. Michael Petry Carric Press Natalie Talek Mac/Val Musee d�art contemporain du Val de Marne 2006 TinTin and the Secret of Literature, Tom McCarthy, Granta Publishing 2005 Simon English: The Army Pink Snowman, Blackdog Publishing 2004 Hidden Histories, Michael Petry, Art Media Press 2000 The Saatchi Gift, Arts Council Collections 1999 Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade, Richard Cork, Booth Clibborn Edition 1992 Shark Infested Waters, The Saatchi Collection, Sarah Kent, Zwemmer |
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