Preview: DAVID SMALL and JEREMY WILLETT 'Desire Lines'

Preview: DAVID SMALL and JEREMY WILLETT 'Desire Lines'

Thu - 03/08/17

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

studio1.1 gallery, 57a Redchurch St, London, E2 7DJ

Event Details

David Small's extravagantly coloured, ever-expansive (yet finely controlled) abstract paintings will be exhibited upon the severe optic disruptions of Jeremy Willett's black and white wallpapers, themselves abstracted from photographs of brutalist urban wallscapes.

from correspondence between the artists...

"'Synth like'. It's almost as if imagining a wilderness, an organic, biological mesh of industrial decline - a jungle overwhelming an edifice, a public sculpture, an art studio - through a 'synthetic' filter. As your process of rendering imaginings of organic forms through digitised means, are then again regurgitated through a craft that is in itself non-digital...(or maybe un-digital is a better phrase.) It's cyclical, and it makes me think of the heavily patterned rugs hung on the walls in The Shining, put there by Kubrick to subliminally make the audience feel trapped, as if in a maze. But that's the reference, isn't it? The jungle - as you say, overgrown. It's saturation, and it's a feeling or sense of both object, the field, ambience and noise, growth and decay. Lots of words I know, but I have a fine scotch in my hand and am very excited by the images you've sent. I love the granular, pixelated quality of the two tone. I've always thought about how I can make my work seem tangible and virtual at the same time. Never managed it, but the combination of the print and painting seem to point it in the right direction.The sculptural element of the print really comes across, and also the deterioration, from what feels like oversaturation of process, which I love. there's also an over-blowness about them. Like they're ready to burst. As if you could imagine the print and painting ensemble to be micro and macrocosmic to some extent. The fine detail and the ever-expanding. Ever play the guitar? Like a Fender Twin Reverb amp on the clean channel, then switching on a Hyper Fuzz pedal. Make any sense?..."

Date/Time

Thursday 3rd of August, 2017

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Nearest Stations

Underground station Tube: Old Street (16 min walk)

Train station Train: Shoreditch High Street (2 min walk)

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