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John Moores 2010
This exhibition is being held at the Walker Art Gallery, 18 September 2010 - 3 January 2011
2010,
Acrylic on canvas,
96 x 81 cm
For many years I have been pre-occupied with the war that rages on remorselessly across the world: The War of Images. In response I decided to search for an image, the imperial image, the image that would dominate all others, but this led only to a false notion of individuality and freedom.
Painters, like insurgents, are solitary and obscure agents, occupying unwanted spaces,
preparing symbolic provocations to be unleashed on the public with a bang. I find myself
surrounded by ideologies that appear contagious, perhaps inescapable, a necessary
part of the human condition or a superfluous and life-threatening madness: The Society
of the Spectacle.
Darren Coffield was born in London in
1969, studying there at Goldsmiths
College 1987, Camberwell School of Arts
1988-89 and the Slade School of Fine
Art 1989-93. In the 1990s with Joshua
Compston he formed Factual Nonsense
gallery, centre of the Young British Artists
scene. His London exhibitions include 'A
Guide For The Perplexed Factual
Nonsense' 1992, 'BP Portrait Award' 2003
and 2010 National Portrait Gallery, '
Jerwood Drawing Prize' 2008 Jerwood
Space and 'East Wing IX' The Courtauld
Institute of Art 2010.
Elsewhere,
exhibitions include 'Plein air' Maximilian
Voloshin Museum Crimea 2008 and '
Turner Contemporary Open' 2009 Turner
Contemporary Project Space Margate.