Bookworks
We are pleased to present 鈥楤ookworks鈥�, an exhibition of contemporary artworks inspired by the world of books and publishing featuring seven contemporary artists: El Gato Chimney, Guy Laramee, Guillermo Martin Bermejo, Claire Partington, Cheri Smith, Russell Webb, and Aron Wiesenfeld.
El Gato Chimney鈥檚 new paintings delve into the Japanese Hyakki Yagy艒, the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, a Bosch-like world of fantastical animals unleashing pandemonium. He paints his scenes into concertina books both as a nod to antique Asian woodcut albums, and also as a means of articulating the parade in book format, opening and expanding to reveal a riot of colourful fauna in a procession of mischief and chaos.
Guy Laramee鈥檚 sculptures reshape old dictionaries and encyclopedias to create magical dreamlike mountain scenes. Pages echo sedimentary layers; cuts into the book transform the compact objects into a giant crevasse. Guy鈥檚 interventions in the book as an object and the landscapes he creates articulate how these publications, their sense of order and their knowledge, are a kind of terraforming for the mind, and underline how such knowledge underpins imagination.
Guillermo Martin Bermejo鈥檚 drawings depict characters from literary and art history as if they were part of the artist鈥檚 own romantic story. He draws onto pages and covers of old books as if to salvage the stories within, creating sensitive scenes in pencil as a form of autobiographical fiction to describe the emotional worlds that literature engenders for its readers. Amongst a group of drawings, this exhibition features three book works inspired by the French writer Patrick Modiano.
Claire Partington鈥檚 ceramic figures use imagery from the past to articulate the present. Here a woman wields a machete after decapitating the artist and publisher Lucas Cranach. Cranach worked with Martin Luther in the publication of early bibles, making his paintings of naked women even more jarring by contemporary standards. Claire taps the long tradition of female violence in art to wrestle the power away from the male artist and publisher.
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We are pleased to present 鈥楤ookworks鈥�, an exhibition of contemporary artworks inspired by the world of books and publishing featuring seven contemporary artists: El Gato Chimney, Guy Laramee, Guillermo Martin Bermejo, Claire Partington, Cheri Smith, Russell Webb, and Aron Wiesenfeld.
El Gato Chimney鈥檚 new paintings delve into the Japanese Hyakki Yagy艒, the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, a Bosch-like world of fantastical animals unleashing pandemonium. He paints his scenes into concertina books both as a nod to antique Asian woodcut albums, and also as a means of articulating the parade in book format, opening and expanding to reveal a riot of colourful fauna in a procession of mischief and chaos.
Guy Laramee鈥檚 sculptures reshape old dictionaries and encyclopedias to create magical dreamlike mountain scenes. Pages echo sedimentary layers; cuts into the book transform the compact objects into a giant crevasse. Guy鈥檚 interventions in the book as an object and the landscapes he creates articulate how these publications, their sense of order and their knowledge, are a kind of terraforming for the mind, and underline how such knowledge underpins imagination.
Guillermo Martin Bermejo鈥檚 drawings depict characters from literary and art history as if they were part of the artist鈥檚 own romantic story. He draws onto pages and covers of old books as if to salvage the stories within, creating sensitive scenes in pencil as a form of autobiographical fiction to describe the emotional worlds that literature engenders for its readers. Amongst a group of drawings, this exhibition features three book works inspired by the French writer Patrick Modiano.
Claire Partington鈥檚 ceramic figures use imagery from the past to articulate the present. Here a woman wields a machete after decapitating the artist and publisher Lucas Cranach. Cranach worked with Martin Luther in the publication of early bibles, making his paintings of naked women even more jarring by contemporary standards. Claire taps the long tradition of female violence in art to wrestle the power away from the male artist and publisher.
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