“1:3 LIGHT” Exhibition
Rooster Gallery
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Rooster Gallery presents 1:3 LIGHT, an exhibition curated by Sara G. Arjona and featuring the work of Marian Tubbs, Alejandro Botubol, Philip Emde and Yann Pocreau.
Light has been an eternal problem in art, apart from the obvious tensions between matter and representation, light is also a very powerful metaphor. It is a meaning engine directly connected to the mysteries of creation, perception, and its opposite, the paranoia of the hidden and the obscure.
But in the contemporary world, the era of the screen, a new kind of light is present, a light that suggests utopia, apocalypse, inspiration, stupidity, connection and isolation, all at the same time: the light of the virtual, artificial light.
The work of the artists featured in 1:3 LIGHT shares some concerns and obsessions in regards to the notion of light. By probing its limits on a mental or on a physical level, the exhibition becomes a contemporary meditation on the possibilities of light, a collective laboratory, a particle accelerator that explores ways of manipulating energy to produce insights, experiences and thoughts.
Through his work, Yann Pocreau emphasizes mysticism and the spectacle. The light of Pocreau transforms buildings into gothic chasms and objects become poetic statements. Philip Emde casts a shadow of dark emotions that contrasts with the vivid colors of the background. Marian Tubbs works with artificial icons in a limbo-space created with the light of the virtual. Alejandro Botubol works on the marriage of artificial and natural light. In this exhibition he plays with monochrome xylographies and the intensity of fluorescent paint that vibrates in every brushstroke, emitting its own light.
The viewer’s rods and cones will therefore be stimulated and it is up to the viewer to either dodge or be seduced by the photons in 1:3 LIGHT.
—Sara G. Arjona
Marian Tubbs (b. 1983, Australia) holds a BFA from RMIT University in Melbourne and an MFA from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW in Sydney where she is also currently completing a PhD; and is a casual academic at UTS, PSM. In 2013 Tubbs an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited, New York. Recent exhibitions include Forever in Print, National Gallery of Australia; Hairy Plotter and the Polygrapher’s Tones, Toves, Copenhagen; Primavera 2014: Young Australian Artists, MCA, Sydney; Quake 2, Arcadia Missa, London; Concrete Island, Rooster Gallery, New York; Portable Nation, Maldives Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. In 2015 she is the inaugural recipient of Sydney’s, Museum of Contemporary Art digital commision. Marian’s work is held at the National Gallery of Australia, and in local and international collections. She is in on-going collaborations with SLUSH and Holly Child. Tubbs has published and presented art and philosophy research at international and local conferences, in 2014 she was a contributing author to the philosophy volume Intensities & Lines of Flight, published by Rowman & Littlefield International.
Alejandro Botubol (b. 1979, Cádiz, Spain) completed his BFA in Painting and Design at the University of Fine Arts in Seville; received his MFA in Art, Idea and Production from the University of Fine Arts, Seville. In 2013 was an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited (RU) and at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), in New York. Recent exhibitions include: Caminando en el Color, ECCO Museum, Cadiz; Cosmogonías, Espacio Valverde Gallery, Madrid; Sol Negro, Cavecanem Gallery, Sevilla; Don’t touch – studio 204, ISCP, New York; Returning Boomerang in La Bañera Gallery, Madrid; La Buena Estrella, OTR Space, Madrid; Make Time, Space Gallery, New York; Paperwork in Flux Factory Gallery, New York; All of Me, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York; Quatre d’Art 30, Trama Gallery, Barcelona; Una Nueva Generación, La Cave, Switzerland; WEARTCADIZ, Taidei Museum, Helsinki; TRANS-ART-LANTICA, Cultural Center Liberty Simon Bolivar of Quito State, Ecuador and Argentina.
Philip Emde (b. 1976, Mannheim, Germany) graduated in Illustration / Art from HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and was an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited, New York. Recent exhibitions include: You Don‘t Know Me…, The Bathroom Project Space,
Rooster Gallery, New York; Philip Emde destroyed my Life, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York; Only two can play this game, Gallery Chu, Cologne
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Joseph-und-Anna-Fassbender Preis, Gallery Bruehl, Bruehl; P-mel und die Penisraketenproblematik, Gallery Nina Sagt, Dusseldorf; Philip Emde hat mein Leben zerstört, Gallery Muelhaupt, Cologne; Horst-Janssen-Grafikaward Claus-Hueppe-Stiftung, Horst-Janssen Museum, Oldenburg; WHAT IF I DON‘T GET ALONG WITH MY TABLE COMPANIONS, Institut Berlin, Berlin; P-SHIRTS/HIER, Hallmackenreuther, Cologne; Paperwork, Flux Factory, New York;
Finalist(inn)en des Mannheimer Kunstpreises 2012 der Heinrich-Vetter-Stiftung, Staedtische Galerie, Mannheim; Hug me, Heimlich, A collection of young art, Rheinlandhalle Cologne, Cologne. Works by Emde are included in the collections of MoMA, Artist Book Collection, New York; Tate Library, Artist Book Collection, London, UK.
Yann Pocreau (b. 1980, Quebec, Canada) completed his BFA in the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts décoratifs de París, Francia and and received his MFA in Visual Arts from the Université du Québec in Montreal. Pocreau was an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited, New York. Recent exhibitions include: Quebec Gold in Palais du Tau/Ancien Collège des Jèsuites, Reims, France; Exercise of empathy, B-Gallery, Bortier Brussels; Expansion, Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal; Out of Grace, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal; Mois de la Photo in Montreal, Anne-Marie Ninacs, Montreal; Under the Radar, the New Visionaries in Jeanine Armin, New York; Paperwork in Flux Factory Gallery, New York;; L’image Rode, Louise Déry, Le Fresnoy, France; 5th Sinop International Biennal, Sinop, Turkey. His works can be found in the collections of the National Bank of Canada; Hydro-Québec; the City of Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts; the Art Museum of Joliette, in the loan collection of the Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec.
Sara G. Arjona (B. 1990, Ávila, Spain) is a curator and researcher in Contemporary Art, holding a BFA from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, and a MA in Research of Contemporary Art, Granada, Spain. Currently pursuing her PhD, she has curated several exhibitions and projects in alternative spaces, as well as Art Fairs. In 2013, Sara G. Arjona moved to New York, as a Researcher Correspondent in the MoMA, where she researched on the career of José Guerrero. Since then, G. Arjona has developed projects in several galleries: Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York; Space Gallery, New York; Centres of Art and Research with curatorial fellowships: EYEBEAM (Art Center and Techonology); Flux Factory, New York; collaborated with PINTA Art Fair, New York; Art Moscow, Russia; Just Madrid, Spain; Art Madrid, Spain; ART LIMA, Equador; SWAB Barcelona, Spain. Since 2014, has worked at Espacio Valverde Gallery as Curator and General Coordination. Sara G. Arjona’s upcoming independent curatorial projects include: 1:3 LIGHT, Rooster Gallery, New York; Caminando en el color, ECCO Museum, Spain; Módulo, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon.
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Schedule
from April 30, 2015 to May 24, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-04-30 from 18:00 to 20:00