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GORDON CHEUNG
ROSIE LEVENTON
BRIGHID LOWE
EMMA MCNALLY
ABIGAIL REYNOLDS
TOVE STORCH
SARAH WOODFINE

UNFOLD
26 June– 2 August 2009

VIEW WORK

The connotations associated with paper refer systematically to the idea of retranscription; writtings and drawings being the retranscription of voices and thoughts and more widely of a certain reality. Through a range of differents practices and investigative approaches, Unfold questions a creative and explorative process which has the particularity of stepping, conceptually or concretely, from two dimensional mediums into a three dimensional space. These “new types of spatial fields” consecutively play and emphasize the virtual aspect of the “drawing process”, the physical nature of its material (carbon, paper) and techniques often associated to paper such as cutting, collage, folding; and therefore focusing on an interest in the physical world surrounding us.


Abigail Reynolds works with trajectories, networks and ordering systems. As a starting point she sets in motion a system and set of processes that result in a form being created. She works with materials to bring fugitive knowledge and connections into the immediacy of physical experience.
The series of collages “The Universal Now” plays with the idea of puzzle-like quality of something being thought-through. Splicing and joining images issued from second hand tourist guides, atlases and other photographs of the last century, Reynolds then cuts the paper in order to be able to fold it; pushing upwards and outwards. These new three dimensional objects go on to play with the viewer’s perception due to the perspective created by the grid and the changing and moving of the construction. (Abigail Reynolds is represented by Seventeen gallery).

Brighid Lowe uses a wide range of situations, materials and scale from site-specific installations to small, single photographs through which a new reading is encouraged. Central to Lowe's work is the idea of montage or assemblage, in which a juxtaposition of elements disrupts the context in which it is inserted. Recent work has also included the use of text, in various formats, collected from our daily surrounding.
The artist’s interest in the intersection of the virtual and the material is developed through a series of ongoing works called “Rain Drawings”. Using rain to interrupt a repetitive surface, the artist explains that the intention of this series is to set a concrete space against other imagined spaces or systems. In the drawing, repeated horizon lines are hand drawn onto the paper, which is then exposed to rainfall - the original linear marks then record the material, yet retaining the romantic space of the rain.

Emma McNally investigates the possibilities of semiotic connections and disconnections through a visually and conceptually dense use of pencil on paper. Her large and small-scale drawings offer themselves to the viewer as surfaces or sites for rhythmic relations of graphite marks disruptively connected in gatherings, collisions, swirls and dispersals that are both geometric and chaotic.
Her drawings lead us into worlds whose ramifications and layered works recall different essences of reality from the micro cosmos to the macro cosmos; her work also suggesting aerial views, geological formations, oceanic charts, disease transmissions, animal migratory routes as molecule structures and black holes. (1)

Gordon Cheung’s psychedelic-coloured paintings reveal an apocalyptic vision of our globalized world. Through a mixed medium of spray paint, oil, acrylic, pastels, newspaper and ink, Cheung is interested in the way we move between the physical world and the virtual realities of communications, technology, global finance and the internet. Cheung depicts artificial spaces, including epic landscapes informed by imagery such as science-fiction and 19th century romantic painting. “I use the Financial Times newspaper stock listings as I think of the stock market as a global dream-world that literally flows through all of us. This for me is a contemporary form of landscape from where I take inspiration and fuse images from the Internet on computer before printing directly onto sections of the stock listings to jigsaw back together on canvas.“ (2)

Rosie Leventon makes indoor and outdoor sculptural installations using a broad variety of recycled materials. All of Leventon's work however is grounded in a sensitive concern for the natural environment and how we use it. She sees her work as a way of interweaving a kind of personal archaeology with the archaeology of contemporary society and the physical archaeology of places, incorporating elements of surprise and humour.
Made with Paperbacks, the tower refers to suburban social housing - symbolising a space where large numbers of people gather without however being able to see, from an outside observation, any traces of life other than small spots of light.

Sarah Woodfine trained as a sculptor, which is evident in her approach to landscape, architecture and optical illusion - all being recurring themes in her work. Her drawings are often constructed as self-contained three-dimensional worlds reminiscent of architectural models and of children’s toys such as cut-out card castles and toy theatres. Each element is drawn in pencil with a precision and clarity that suggest a perfectly observed reality, but also conjure up the obsessive hallucinatory character of a dream or fantasy. Accessible and intimate, these scenes are made up of fragments and clues which invite viewers to invent their own stories.

Tove Storch combines virtual and physical aspects of the world in order to create objects which belong to a third kind of spatiality. She examines sculptural presence and spatial experience by asking questions such as : How does a form, volume or shape appear? - What are the formal rules for creating a sculpture? Storch’s sculptures are static while deeply engaged with movement. She investigates how sound or movement would look physically. Fragility and transience are found in all of her attempts to make three dimensional objects. The works are at once concrete, physical and real but at the same time transparent, floating, absurd and imaginary.


(1) See Ana Balona de Oliveira Fields, Charts, Soundings (Essay), January 2008
(2) Interview of Gordon Cheung in MYARTSPACE>BLOG / http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2007/11/art-space-talk-gordon-cheung.html, Nov 07




Abigail Reynolds lives and works in London, UK. Solo shows: The Universal Now, Seventeen Gallery, London (2009); ShapeShift: Landscape in motion, Durlston castle, Dorset, UK (2007) / Group shows: Embedded, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, UK (2008); Tatton Park Biennial, Parabola, UK (2008); Jardin d’acclimation, Villa Arson, Nice, France (2008); From a Distance, Wallspace, New York (curated by Vincent Honore) (2007); The Islanders, Nettie Horn, London (2007); NEVERODDOREVEN, Serpentine Gallery, London (2007); Behemoth, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London (2007); Day to Day Data, Danielle Arnaud London (2006)


Brighid Lowe lives and works in London, UK. Solo shows: Jerwood Artists Platform, Jerwood Space, London (2004); Archives de la Critique d'art commission for symposium and publication, France (2001); Unedited Confessions, Galerie Vox, Montreal, Canada (2001) / Group shows: Embedded, Gimpel Fils gallery, London, UK(2008);Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, Jerwood Space, London, then touring (2007-08); Paulo Post Futurum, Lokaal 01/Breda’s Museum, Breda, Holland (2007); Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London (2004); New Religious Art 1992 – 2002, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool and Henry Peacock Gallery, London (2002); Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London (2000)

Rosie Leventon lives and works in London, UK. Exhibitions and commissions: Concrete and Glass, Shoreditch Town Hall, London (2008); Et Pendant ce Temps..., NETTIE HORN, London (2008); Parallax, Fieldgate Gallery, London (2008); Eyestorm (opp. Tate Modern), (2007); Queens House, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; Undercurrent, Fabrica, Brighton (2007); International Glass Biennale, Ruskin Glass Centre, Stourbridge (2004); Royal Society of British Sculptors (2000-2001); Commission for the garden of Mrs Anne Wood CBE, Atrium Gallery, Price Waterhouse Coopers, London (2001)

Emma Mcnally lives and works in London, UK. Solo shows: Fields, Charts, Soundings, T1+2 Gallery, London (2008) / Group shows: Avatar of Sacred Discontent, 9 Hillgate, T1+2 Gallery/ Flora Fairbairn Projects, London (2007); Cannibal Ferox, T1+2/ Paradise Row, London, UK (2006); The Constant of Variation 2, T1+2 Gallery, London (2001); The n°8 Bus, T1+2 Gallery, London (2001)

Gordon Cheung lives and works in London, UK. Solo shows: The Promised Land, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York USA (2009); TECHNOPHOBIA, Harris Museum, Preston UK (2008); Wilderness of Mirrors, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany (2008); God is on Our Side, Unosunove Gallery, Rome Italy (cat) (2007); Heart of Darkness, Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2006) / Group shows: The Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery - Ellis Rumley Projects, London (2008); PS: Parsing Spirituality Affirmation Arts, New York City, USA (2008); Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington USA (2007); Fash n Riot, Photographer's Gallery, London

Sarah Woodfine lives and works in London, UK. Solo shows: Ha Gamle Prestegard, Norway (2007);
The Drawn Curtain, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London (2006); Dorman Museum Middlesbrough, UK (2003); Five Years, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London (2000)/ Group shows: The Beguiling ... , Bury St Edmunds Gallery (2008); isobar, Fieldgate Gallery (2007); Snowdomes, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK (2006); Cloud & Vision, Museum of Garden History, London (2005); Staged, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London (2005); The Jerwood Drawing Prize (2004)
Tove Storch lives and works in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Vienna (Austria). Solo shows: The Weakest Link, Stedefreund, Berlin; KBH Kunsthal, Krabbesholm Højskole, Copenhagen, Denmark (2008); Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (2008); Gallery Kirkhoff, Copenhagen, Denmark (2007); Superhorst, offspace Berlin, Germany (2006) / Group shows: Et Vintereventyr, Gl. Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark (2009); The Weakest Link, Stedefreund, Berlin, Germany (2008); Reduced, Karma International, Zürich, Switzerland (2008); Pimp my walls, Stefan Schuster, Strelitzerstraße 59, Berlin, Germany (2007); The Lab, INTO POSITION, Bauernmarkt 1, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Severin Dünser (2007)

 



Installation View, Unfold, NETTIE HORN, London


Emma MCNALLY
Field 6
2009
305 x 221 cm
Graphite on paper 2009


Gordon CHEUNG
Living Machine (Study)
2008
109 x 154 cm
stock listings, ink, acrylic gel and spray on lascaux cloth


Abigail REYNOLDS
Post Office Tower 1989/1999
2009
Cut and folded vintage bookplates

Abigail REYNOLDS
Broadcasting House 1948/1967
2008
Cut and folded bookplates

Abigail REYNOLDS
Rock Church Toolo 1998/1974
2006
Cut and folded vintage bookplates

Abigail REYNOLDS
Tower Bridge 1959/1965
2009
Cut and folded vintage bookplates


Abigail REYNOLDS
Houses of Parliament Helsinki
1948/1952
2007
Cut and folded vintage bookplates



Abigail REYNOLDS
Piccadilly 1938/1984
2009
Cut and folded vintage bookplates


Brighid LOWE
Rain Drawing I
2006
Pen, paper, rain
150 x 213 cm


Rosie LEVENTON
Somewhere a door slammed…
2009
Around 2000 books


Tove STORCH
UT
2007
Silk screen / 120 x 80 cm

Tove STORCH
Skyggebillede (Shadow Picture)
2007
Silk screen / 120 x 80 cm


Sarah WOODFINE
Crypt
2007
Pencil on paper in perspex box
22 x 30 x 22 cm


Sarah WOODFINE
Alfred's Story 2
2006
Pencil on paper in perspex box,
22 x 30 x 22 cm


Sarah WOODFINE
Boy
2008
Pencil on paper, perspex , white oak
45 x 60 x 30 cm

 




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