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Transition
is pleased to present Temporary
Fiction which brings together six UK artists whose work encompases
different aspects of visual art practice today. The show explores
the narrative constructs of each artist’s work with the
creation of a ‘fantasy’ gallery, designed and constructed
inside Transition by artists Hew Locke
and Danny Rolph.
The nature of the environment responds to the work of each
artist exhibiting, forming new associations as the group dynamic
is transformed. The gallery is an extension of Hew
Locke’s current practice which saw him explore commodity
and class hierarchy in his Cardboard
Palace installation at Chisenhale in 2002. Danny
Rolph’s large scale Makrolan plastic paintings are
also newly conceived and form part of the material construct
of the gallery. His paintings, with their energetic architectural
qualities, now form a container both literally and narratively
for the works exhibited within.
Neal Rock and Deirdre
King have both developed work that is conscious of painting’s
status as a commodity. Rock, using silicone piped through
icing cake nozzles, makes work that envelops its support structure,
thriving on a sense of artificiality and the baroque. For
this show Deirdre King has created dried skins of paint folded
into cardboard box containers, also indicating a desire for
excess and an interest in their consumption materially and
conceptually.
Peter Lamb’s work uses found
copies of old paintings and other items of ephemera to create
new works that are at once objects, trophies and images. They
display an interest in cultural sublimation and nostalgia,
hovering between homage, appropriation and defacement.
David Burrow’s work plays
on the tautology of images and objects that display a clear
sense of their fiction / construction within their own visual
logic. His Borgesian play within a myriad of interchangeable
worlds highlights one of the main themes of the exhibition;
how narratives are constructed and within those constructions
where other possibilities unravel.
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