View cassette catalogue - Reuben Colley Fine Arts
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View cassette catalogue - Reuben Colley Fine Arts
An Exhibition of Pop Art by Horace Panter Catalogue 2 – Cassettes Cassettes C30 “The ubiquitous audio cassette is an artefect that evokes memory. Transient, disposable and portable, it has long since been replaced by new technologies to become an integral part of my, and probably your, youth. This series is called C30 because it denotes the smaller size of the painting.” John Peel – August 1981 Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm Original SOLD (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed) In The City – The Jam Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm Original Available (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed) Madness – One Step Beyond – Final Mixes Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm Original SOLD (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed) Motown Chartbusters Volume 3 Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm Original Available (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed) Prince Far - I Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm Original Available (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed) Northern Soul Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm Original Available (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed) Stereotype / Jet Set Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm Original Available (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £200 unframed) Cassettes C30 Blank Expression “These cassettes can be personalised ... what would you write on them?” Blank Expression - AGFA Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm Original Available (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £250 unframed) Blank Expression - TDK Original Acrylic on Panel 42 x 30 cm Original Available (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £250 unframed) Cassettes C90 “The increase in scale gives a new dimension to a mundane object, thereby elevating its status to monolithic.” Enjoy Yourself Original Acrylic on Panel 92 x 61 cm Original Available (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £500 unframed) Chic – Good Times Original Acrylic on Panel 92 x 61 cm Original Available (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £500 unframed) Top 40 Original Acrylic on Panel 92 x 61 cm Original Available (Also available as a signed limited edition of 25 copies £500 unframed) HORACE PANTER - BIOGRAPHY Born in Croydon in 1953, Horace graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Coventry’s ‘Lanchester Polytechnic’ in 1975. It was there that he met Jerry Dammers and together they formed The Specials, a band that went on to become one of the most defining British bands of the 1980s. He travelled the world (and its art galleries) as a musician and then, from 1998-2008, was the ‘Head of Art’ in a secondary school. It was in 2008, when The Specials reformed, that he found he had the time to explore his own art practice. Horace’s first solo exhibition was in 2009 at London’s Strand Gallery and he has since exhibited throughout the UK, including at the AAF London, The London Art Fair, The Groucho Club and The London Print Fair at The Royal Academy as well as in galleries in Birmingham, Bath, Manchester, Aberdeen, Bournemouth, Bristol and Liverpool. He has also worked on collaborations with a number of companies, including Fred Perry, Club Wembley, Sheaffer Inc., Teenage Cancer Trust, Amy Winehouse Foundation, Screaming Records DK and Stone Foundation (the latter two involved designing record labels and album covers). Much of Horace’s figurative work is based on traditional forms of iconography infused with a Pop Art sensibility, with influences ranging from Peter Blake, Kenneth Noland, Wayne Thiebaud and Joseph Cornell as well as the naive style of Henri Rousseau. He is interested in how iconography has always served a purpose for religious or political propaganda in which art reflects an ideology and is used as a tool to reinforce the prevailing rhetoric of absolutist regimes. His aim in creating contemporary iconography is to question the narrative of the icon by reproducing and questioning its status and authority in a post-modern setting. In this, he follows the Pop Art mantra of ‘elevating the mundane’; his icons are often of people who are ‘unseen’. His more recent paintings and collages, pay tribute to his favourite musicians, owing more to the influence of Peter Blake, Andy Warhol or Kurt Schwitters, with an emphasis on the visual narrative of the subject presented in fragmented pieces but expressing a cohesive history, as can be seen in his ‘Chicago Blues’ series. In his cassette series, the artefact is celebrated along with the cultural/historical context of seminal albums and the recording studios in which they were made. It could be argued that his paintings are autobiographical inasmuch as they emerge from experiences, places and people that he has met on his travels as well as from his love of music; from his childlike images of robots to his more reflective portrait of Amy Winehouse, each work could represent a part of his kaleidoscopic and colourful sense of the world. Reuben Colley Fine Arts 50 & 52 St Mary's Row, Moseley, Birmingham. B13 8JG Tel : 0121 449 3744 Email : [email protected] Opening Times Monday – 10am until 6pm Tuesday - 10am until 6pm Wednesday - 10am until 6pm Thursday - Closed Friday - 10am until 6pm Saturday - 10am until 6pm Sunday – By Appointment Only