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John Moores 25
This exhibition is being held at the Walker Art Gallery, 20 September 2008 - 9 January 2009
Acrylic and polymer on canvas,190 x 185 cm,
2007
I am a painter and sculptor, working with abandoned constructions - architecturally
and psychologically. These contrast, question and underline their site specific
premises, dealing with an idea of abandoned space and the uncanny. They also evoke
ideas of (extremist) sect communities.
My work concentrates on something I call 'porous constructions.' Abandoned empty
shells: mines, cargo ships, watchtowers, barns and sheds - left for something else to
happen, to mourn or just to keep an open mind about. A mutation; an inhabitation; a
penetration; extending themselves in unlikely ways.
As a painter, I find scrap photos, mostly places I haven't been to myself, and
therefore don't really know. I build and add to machinery-like constructions.
The paintings are approached with dogmatic rules about strokes, colours and
transparency, rules to bump against and crash. As a constructor of huge wooden
structures, I first make small scale models and investigate the sites. Each site is
different and offers new paradigms. In 2007 I travelled to the Russian abandoned
city, The Pyramid, near the Polar Circle and examined the architecture of its society
and the mine constructions. This is the basis for my ongoing project about Utopian
ideas falling to the ground.
Mie Olise Kjærgaard was born on Mors, Denmark
in 1974. She studied at A-Aarch Aarhus DK/ The Bartlett London 1995-
2001, Central Saint Martins London (graduated 2007), and undertakes
the ISCP New York 2009-10. London group shows include 'Celeste Art
Prize' 2007 Old Truman Brewery (finalist), '4 New Sensations' (Saatchi
Gallery/Channel 4 competition) Old Truman Brewery 2007, 'Tipping
Point' Purdy Hicks Gallery 2008 and a two-person show (forthcoming)
Standpoint Gallery 2008. Solo shows include 'Mutated Small Town Limbo'
Roskilde Gasworks DK 2007 and 'Penetrating Pores of Construction' Barbara
Davis Gallery Houston USA 2008.