Press Coverage - Chisenhale Gallery

 11 September - 25 October 2009 Press Coverage
Date
11 September 2009
17 September 2009
13 February 2010
13 February 2010
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Guardian.co.uk
Time Out London
Centre for the
Aesthetic
Revolution.com
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April 2010
May 2010
Sculpture
Frieze Magazine
Reference
Skye Sherwin, Exhibitionist: The best shows this week
In the Studio pp50
http://centrefortheaestheticrevolution.blogspot.com/200
9/09/tariq-alvi-at-chisenhale-gallery.html
http://www.stylereply.com/index.php?option=com_cont
ent&view=article&id=178:tariq-alvi-atchisenhale&catid=60:style-blog&Itemid=161
Loose Ends, A conversation with; pp56-57
Cut it Out pp118-121
Press Reaction
A vivid reflection of consumer wants and human needs.
Guardian, September 2009
Atypical for art work based on personal archives, personalized research and reworking of found materials, the artist’s
point is, perhaps, not to create new orders or new categories from existing ones but to attempt to dispense with the
old ones altogether.
frieze, May 2010
Chisenhale Gallery
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Registered office 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ
Guardian Online, 11 Sept 2010
Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see
this week
Ryan McGinley and Tariq Alvi stage solo shows in London, a
nightmare hunt is screened in Glasgow, and Southend makes
parallels with Poland
Skye Sherwin
guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 September 2009 15.25 BST
Reaching across political divides ... Erik Blinderman's Massenaufnahme (2009) on show in Southend. Photograph:
Focal Point gallery
In New York, photographer Ryan McGinley has been a golden child of art and fashion
for a number of years. He had shows at New York's Whitney Museum and PS1 before
he was 25, and seems almost as likely to appear in front of the camera as behind it on
the pages of luxury magazines. It can seem hard to extricate the lifestyle from
McGinley's photography, which initially (like the late Dash Snow's) took a point-andshoot approach to his scenester friends, but perhaps that's the point: from something
close to the best-looking Facebook page ever, his work has evolved into more
complicated, staged tableaux with models gambolling about like untouchable denizens
of a chic Never Never Land. His first London solo exhibition, Moonmilk, at Alison
Jacques Gallery, features photos created deep within American caves. Partly inspired
by boyhood stories like those of Jules Verne or Mark Twain, his models now appear as
tiny specks against the vast backdrop of an overwhelming, great adventure.
For Tariq Alvi the baubles of mass visual culture are there to be chopped up and
meticulously reordered in intricate, three-dimensional collages. Buzzing amid
monochrome or rainbow-coloured arrangements, however, is material that can't so
easily be flattened into pleasing patterns. Price tags, gay porn, fastfood menus and one
horrific, haunting image of persecuted gay Muslims are some of the things Alvi has
previously spliced from their original contexts and reconfigured. His current solo
show, The Meaning, at London's Chisenhale Gallery includes a 3-metre sculptural
collage of gay clubbers, a giant painting adapted from a collage of jewel-like designer
doorknobs and an abundance of winking mirrors. Pitting commodities against
emotions, it makes for a vivid reflection of consumer wants and human needs.
Henry Coombes is not an artist you forget in a hurry. Take his visceral film Gralloch, a
hit in Scotland's pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, featuring a deer carcass being
disemboweled, while all too human eyes roll inside its antlered skull. Tragicomic and
macabre, it staged a kind of behind-the-scenes glimpse into the work of Sir Edwin
Landseer, a painter favoured by Queen Victoria, who subjugated the Scottish wilds into
an idyll of hunt scenes fit for privileged tastes. Gralloch confirmed Coombes's genius
Guardian Online, 11 Sept 2010
for subversive imagery, attuned to a fine sense of the ridiculous. Premiering at
Glasgow's Sorcha Dallas gallery, The Bedfords is more elaborate. Picking away at the
social veneer that rarifies art and hunting, Coombes exposes something warped,
deathly and absurd. Watch out for cult writer Alasdair Gray in a cameo role.
Gray's own work is also on show at The Changing Room in Stirling. In literary circles
the 70-something Glaswegian remains a legend for his experimental first novel Lanark,
influenced by Joyce and Kafka. Among other things, he is a renowned painter and
graphic artist, and this exhibition presents illustrations from his 1989 poetry
collection, Old Negatives, alongside prints from Scots Hippo, a recent adaptation of the
TS Eliot poem The Hippopotamus. Both tackle his driving obsession with "modern
states of love, faith and language", as he puts it.
Unexpected cultural connections between the Essex seaside and the Eastern Bloc come
to the fore at Focalpoint in Southend, a place where Polish is apparently now the
second language. Southend's relationship to its coastal-resort twin town of Sopot in
Poland, frames young artist Erik Blinderman's first UK solo show, Sounds of the Sea
and Shops. Through film, slides, soundworks and a printing project, he draws on
various parallels and forgotten histories between the two towns. Meanwhile, consumer
culture, now mirrored in Eastern Europe, is explored through sound recordings made
in Sopot shopping centres. As Blinderman allows experiences across political and
geographic divides to ricochet back on one another, he manages to travel further and
wider than the twin-town concept might ordinarily imply.
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Yesterday I went to Tariq's opening at Chisenhale. I was excited as I'm a big fan and
hadn't seen his work since his great show at Whitechapel Gallery in 2001. It seems
like London's art scene is renovating with great non commercial art spaces that don't
act as franchises of commercial gallery's as other London spaces do.
Tariq's press release below:
Tariq Alvi
11 September – 25 October 2009
Preview Thursday 10 September, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Chisenhale Gallery presents The Meaning, a major solo exhibition by British artist
Tariq Alvi. Working intuitively, recycling and re-contextualizing found printed matter
from newspapers and magazine advertising, Alvi’s labour-intensive works present
us with both disarmingly simple and complex aesthetic forms that reflect upon
contemporary society.
Alvi presents a group of sculptures, paintings and collages that meditate on the
relationships between economy, sexuality, desire and materiality. One key work in
the exhibition incorporates Alvi’s characteristic formal motif of hundreds of cut-out
prices from magazines and trade fliers, here arranged around the imposing form of a
three-metre long tree trunk. Dyslexic Dancer maps out an abstract depiction of
sexuality and desire, its plate glass surface, splicing a mirrored cube, is adorned with
nebulous colourful forms constructed out of torn up pages from gay club magazines;
the visceral grubbiness of these figures butts up against mannered references to the
tasteful formality of minimalist forms. Mirrors also feature in a large wall-based work,
a version of which Alvi first made in Club Oase in Maastricht in 1997, onto which are
collaged cut-outs of male and female models, which both articulate and disrupt the
potential for self-reflection.
The works in The Meaning all shift restlessly between surface and subject matter
and Alvi consciously plays with a disjuncture between the two in the way he
appropriates and juxtaposes images and information. The exhibition’s title work
comprises a painting produced by a professional painter, copied and dramatically
enlarged from a collage made by Alvi incorporating pages torn from an interiors
magazine depicting glass doorknobs piled on plates like sweets; this exaggerated
image of consumer culture’s economy of luxury goods becomes even more
excessive and strange in its painted manifestation. An accompanying print work,
also based on one of Alvi’s collages and further ornamented with more cut-out
magazine prices, implicates the body in the machinations of economic exchange and
the hierarchies of value – of appropriation and hand craftsmanship – engendered in
the processes of production.
Tariq Alvi is a British artist based in London. Solo exhibitions include Badischer
Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2009); 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco (2008); Cabinet,
London (2007); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2005)
and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2001).
http://www.chisenhale.org.uk
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Tariq Alvi at Chisenhale
So Lora gets in touch, welcomes me home and says come to the opening night of Tariq Alvi exhibition at the Chisenhale.
Feeling weird and Agrophobic, I go anyway. I haven't seen my friends in ages and the booze is always cheap at private
views/openings, so I drag my tired a**e out to Bethnal green and am pleasantly surprised. I loved the space, but more
importantly the work itself was impressive.The magazine, flyers, newspapers cuttings (and I think even a Argos catalogue was
used), to me seemed mocking and probably somehow pointing to the current economic situation and consumerism on the
whole. I particularly liked the mirrored pieces (of which you can see in My Fav Vids below) even if the spray mount could be
seen on the glass-no one's perfect. I also met my one of my bestest friends new girlfriend, who is ab fab and reminds me of my
teacher in primary school called Ms. Bridge (I loved her too). Anyways check out my videos and check out the exhibition by
clicking here and click here for the map.
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My Fav Vids
This is a clip of Jem and The Mifits - one of my favourite cartoons as a child. I still love it now. The costumes are ruly outragoues-
love it!!
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