PAPYROPHILIA
CHARLIE SMITH London, 336 Old St, London, EC1V 9DR
In association with Westbrook Gallery
Paul Carey-Kent Review:
Zavier Ellis, who calls his gallery over the Reliance Pub after a family
name rather than his own, has collaborated with Chris Westbrook to present a
fascinating mix of new and old in 40 odd works on paper by 30 artists.
Consistent with the obsessive tenor of 'Papyrophilia', there is a high
proportion of perversity in the works shown: look out for Caro Suerkemper's
beautifully modulated watercolour of a woman bound and trussed; Tim Parr's
'Construction' of chained limbs; James Unsworth's riotously adolescent nasal
fuckers; young Irish artist Keiran Moore's inter-sexual characters, one of
them using anemones as if they were leaches; and Miranda Whall's sensitive
'lactogenetic' portrait of one of her recently-productive breasts, which
follow on logically enough from her rabbit and bird drawings in which the
rabbit is a vibrator. There's also performance artist Mark McGowan's first
sculpture - a tableau of performance left-overs and documentation, including
a chips up the nose photo which fits right in. Even one of the obituaries
drawn by Hugh Mendes is of porn star Marilyn Chambers. True, there's plenty
of other stuff from still lives to landscapes, but I'd just come from White
Cube.
INCLUDING:
Martin Lea Brown
George Condo
Leon Golub
Keith Haring & Andy Warhol
Luke Jackson
James Jessop
Jasper Joffe
Reece Jones
Claire de Jong
Cathy Lomax
Robin Mason
Mark McGowan
Hugh Mendes
Kieran Moore
Alex Gene Morrison
Paul Noble
Gavin Nolan
Chris Ofili
Tim Parr
Claire Pestaille
Michael Scoggins
Liam Scully
Dominic Shepherd
John Stark
Caro Suerkemper
Gavin Tremlett
James Unsworth
Stella Vine
Stephen Walter
Miranda Whall
Private View | First Thursday
Thursday May 6th 6.30pm-8.30pm
Exhibition Dates
Friday May 7th - Saturday May 29th 2010
Gallery Hours
Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm or by appointment
Address
CHARLIE SMITH london, 336 Old St, London, EC1V 9DR
PAPYROPHILIA is a celebration of an artist's treatment of one of the most exciting and enduring mediums, work on paper. Often considered as secondary or preparatory, this exhibition aims to highlight how working on paper can be a vital and immediate process that is free from constraints often endured by working in other mediums.
Combining artists who specialise or work predominantly with paper such as Reece Jones or James Unsworth to multi-disciplinary artists like Luke Jackson or Miranda Whall to those who are known only for working in other mediums such as Mark McGowan, Dominic Shepherd or John Stark, PAPYROPHILIA will illuminate these various approaches and invite the audience to gain an insightful view of the artists' working practice.
In its totality PAPYROPHILIA will provide an overview of pencil, charcoal, ink, watercolour, etching and collage on paper by an essential selection of rising and established artists.
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