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will and compulsion ... 6th February - 6th March 2004
will and compulsion features seven artists new to the gallery, selected by Pierre Imhof, Ingrid Kerma and Kate Palmer (all of whom are gallery artists). The selection is intended to introduce artists some of the issues relating to abstraction today. All of the artists, while having roots in countries as far afield as Croatia, Persia and Italy are based in London and are addressing issues relating to abstraction, process and painting. At a time of renewed discussion regarding the importance of painting and of the possibilities of abstraction among both critics and an emerging generation of younger artists, this show was conceived as an opportunity to explore a range of work being made today. Ivanišin’s City Scape images for instance are constructed using newspapers and magazines as a form of abstract collage which are then photographed and C-type printed, while O’Neill’s work escapes from the tradition of a four sided canvas and flattens itself to the wall. The artists on show have contrasting strategies where for instance in
Andrew Vass’ work the history of the marks and the way they are
layered form the painting’s own narrative, while in Gabriel’s
work the painting takes place in the instant of pouring. These artists
escape the hedonistic tendency of artists such as Franz Ackerman (whose
work is in this month’s Christies sale of Contemporary art) while
stretching the notion of what it is to be an abstract painter today. Mark
Pearson exemplifies this; his work develops out of the formal methodology
of process painting, but the result, caused by the natural tendency of
paint to coalesce on the canvas, is paintings that have an engaging, biomorphic
quality. Edward Chell View more
images of works from this exhibition
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KATARINA IVANIŠIN
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