London Calling, Total Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. 2009
I-MYU Projects and Charles Danby are pleased to present
an international exhibition of eight British artists :
Philip Allen, David Batchelor, Fiona Banner, Martin
Creed, Dryden Goodwin, Peter McDonald, Nathaniel Rackowe,
Gary Webb London Calling: Who Gets to Run the World
presents works by British artists clustered through
interlaced ideas of architectural structure, plasticised
colour and the resonating flicker of the still image.
Fracturing recurrent motifs, layers of paint disrupt the
surface image of Phillip Allen's architecturally encoded
paintings, while the superimposed portraits of Dryden
Goodwin's Red Studies (2004-present) mark open and
fragmented points of time. They rest in contrast to the
singular moment of their photographic equivalent. The
text-based works of Fiona Banner, transcribed cinematic
sequences hold the moving image in stasis, functioning as
temporary portraits or photographic stills, while
momentary shafts of static light are cast out from a
moving light source within the spliced architectural mass
of Nathaniel Rackowe's large-scale sculpture Black Shed
(2008). Peter McDonald's paintings offer flickers of
social narrative representing an idealistic world
revealed through the reduced receptacles of colour,
transparency and geometry. Gary Webb's mirrored towers,
Dressed up and ready to go (2008) create transformative
revisions of their reflected and immediately localised
exterior environments. Martin Creed's Shit (2008) marks
an ordinariness of event and spectacle, a collective
creative statement deftly removed from sensation. In
completion David Batchelor's works explore the assemblage
of mass-manufactured objects and readymade fixtures
through material and colour, objects that underpin market
cultures of international exchange, of manufacturing and
consumption.