"Luminous Language" Exhibition
Launch F18
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"Drawing is a struggle between nature and the artist, in which the better the artist understands the intentions of nature, the more easily he will triumph over it. For him it is not a question of copying, but of interpreting in a simpler and more luminous language."
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), The Salon of 1846, VII: On the Ideal and the Model (1846)
Though the traditional medium of pencil on paper continues to be a mainstay of drawing, in the expanded field of contemporary practice, artists are using an ever-widening range of media in order to experiment with their ideas and themes. And while drawing is still used as a starting point or a kind of shorthand in the development of work in other media, increasingly, many artists are seeing it as the core of their work.
Luminous Language, curated by Vane, explores the great variety of contemporary drawing through the work of artists from the UK, Europe and the USA. Whether using pencil, paint, collage, photography or video, these works give us an insight into each artist's working method and their individual artistic visions.
Héctor Arce-Espasas (born 1982, San Juan, Puerto Rico, lives in New York, USA) uses images that are inherent to the geographic and cultural milieu of the tropics. He appropriates and transfigures some of these images in order to transgress their current symbolic meaning in a sensuous play of conflicting alliances. The images lure and repel while playing with the idea of easily recognisable objects that are used to promote an attainable and commercial 'tropical paradise'.
Mark Joshua Epstein (born 1979, Washington DC, USA, lives in Brooklyn, USA) blurs the boundaries between real and internalised spaces in his exploration of how self is constructed through an engagement with one's setting. His paintings and collages consist of abstractions made from real-world references drawn from a variety of historical and contemporary sources, where interactions manifest in the work as awkward spatial relationships, uncomfortable colour pairings, and dissonant patterns.
Josué Pellot (born 1979, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, lives in Chicago, USA) makes work that examines cultural identity as defined through popular culture and consumer products. He creates minimalist hybrid objects that give an impression of being a cross between painting and sculpture, manufactured and handcrafted, both poetic object and social sign. Thus he creates an aesthetic and symbolic abstraction of Puerto Rican (Caribbean) identity which is juxtaposed to the 'de-contextualised and sterile' space of the white cube gallery.
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Schedule
from March 04, 2013 to March 10, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-03-04 from 18:00 to 20:00