Comment? - Exhibition 2 / Archive
Tara Fracalossi
Angie Hicks
Thomas Lail
Anne Leigniel
Guy Sherwin
Claude Temin-Vergez
Camilla Watson
Carol Wyss
Exhibition open:
Friday~Sunday 1pm to 6pm, 19 - 28 January 2007
or by appointment
Opening night:
6.00 - 8.00pm, Thursday 28 January 2007
Special Event: Open invitation to participate in Comment? -
A coming together to exchange ideas and critical feedback on the exhibition.
3pm, Sunday 28 January 2007 (Afternoon Tea and homemade cakes will be provided)
Please RSVP to info@thecomment.org
Kingsgate Gallery, 110-116 Kingsgate Road, London NW6 2JG
For information about the exhibition, contact 07790 965880 or email info@thecomment.org
Exhibition curated by Kaz and Karen Mirza for Comment?
Kingsgate Gallery, 110-116 Kingsgate Road, London NW6 2JG
Angela Allen
Fumiko Amano
Veronica Bailey
Kaz
Karen Mirza
Beatrix Reinhardt
Jon Tarry
Exhibition date:
1 - 10 December 2006
Special Event: Open invitation to participate in Comment? -
A coming together to exchange ideas and critical feedback on the exhibition.
Sunday 3 December 2006
Exhibition curated by Carol Wyss and Anne Leigniel for Comment?
Comment? 1 is a group exhibition by 7 artists whose common thread is Comment?, a platform for artists from around the world to exchange ideas and critical feedback on their practice in the informal setting of artists studios.
Comment? was founded in 2001 by two London based artists, Anne Leigniel and Karen Mirza, who instigated numerous small meetings of invited artists both from the UK and abroad, usually five or six in attendance at each session. Over time, this coming together of creativity has built to a critical mass and a natural progression was to organize a group exhibition in two parts, Comment? 1 and Comment? 2.
The exhibition is the first time Comment? will move away from the relative security of a small informal setting to the public domain of the white cube. It also presents an opportunity for all those who have so far participated in Comment? to come together for the first time.
Comment? 1 presents a multiplicity of expressions in which overlapping narratives unfold. The exhibited works cover an extraordinary range of techniques and references, oscillating between the representational and the abstract and have a physically powerful aesthetic awareness.
Comment? 1 will present works by:
Angela Allen's series ' Sequences & Interruptions' are initiated by a response to the visible. From the flux of visual incidents of the everyday and familiar she finds an already abstracted visual order, an 'already- made' and appropriates these already-made visual events as strategies of organisation in the drawings.
Fumiko Amano's inspiration is sound. Sound fills her canvases - she turns sound into colour. Seeing Michiyoshi Inoue conduct a performance by a symphony orchestra by pointing at different parts of a large painting, the colours and textures of the painting became for her intertwined with the music. She then decided to create visual images inspired by urban noise.
Veronica Bailey's photographic series is based on the written correspondence of model/muse/photographer/
war correspondent Lee Miller [1907-1977] with her lover; artist/writer and ultimately husband Roland Penrose, but also with one of her wartime employers, Audrey Withers. The images allow the viewer to glimpse words from the folded letters that protrude from the torn envelope, their privacy protected and yet exposed, suggests a revealing intimacy.
Karen Mirza's film and video installations question the filmic, sculptural and architectonic qualities of the moving image. They are installed in architectural configurations, frequently presented across two or three screens so that the questions of past and presence, framing and projection are interrogated. Her work aims to blur the distinctions between film and sculpture, art and cinema.
Kaz continues his on going project of representing the intangible, light, with his series of digital photographs of streetlights at night. As with most of his photographic works, these images were not digitally manipulated and are shown as they were recorded with digital technology, employing binary system of 0s and 1s to depict the in betweens.
Beatrix Reinhardt's centre of interest in her work has been the politics of space. How demarcation can be achieved through decoration, the way individuals express themselves through how they organize, use and decorate their spaces, and how this can be seen as an expression of cultural values, ideals, beliefs, individual taste and sensibilities.
Jon Tarry responds to situations in a series of representational, 3-dimensional artworks. Recollection is fleeting, scenes, sites, people, all sifted, leaving only partial residues that hover between the real and the distortion. 'Take Off', plots airport runways as sites that enable people to link up peoples across geographies, dissolving the boundaries that lay between.