GROTESQUEIDYLL |
GROTESQUE - IDYLL brings together new work by 21 artists working in a variety of
media - fashion, fine art, photography and film. An amplified focus on transient
beauty as seen from, and possibly altered by, the urban perspective as
a ubiquitous element. Faded memories, fairytale like fantasies, and daydreams
of elsewhere feature alongside pieces that are more directly expressive of
the immediate experience of |
A recent graduate of MA Fashion at Central Saint Martins, Sabine Breuninger currently works freelance for New York Industrie assisting Munich- based designer Kostas Murkudis. She also launched her fashion label Customers Own Property. She presents her 'Fashion Design Kit', a game-like installation that leads the player through the creative journey. A humorous, playful approach to creativity, as found in her own design label, is encouraged by incorporating the element of chance. Fashion designer Robert Cary-Williams is showing two personal polaroids together with two larger scale canvases. The influence of his previous career in the army is visible in the work presented here as it has been in his catwalk collections. Cary-Williams' work has been seen in exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. The work of fashion stylist Hector Castro has graced the pages of many magazines including Self-Service and Dazed & Confused. Here he is exhibiting a new, previously unseen photographic image. Artist Graham Dolphin gets behind the glamorous gloss of the fashion industry to reveal the actual content stripped of all signature design. Fashion magazines are the target of recent explorations exhibited here. His work has been featured in Frieze magazine and is to be included in a forthcoming exhibition at the Barbican Centre, London. Ernst Fischer is a photographer whose pictures have been reproduced in Rank, Colors, Exit and Zoo as well as in a recent cover story for Dazed & Confused. Six landscapes are viewed here, each of which suggests itself as a setting for something, someone, sometime. Fischer's images are, in his own words, "suggestive of a bigger tale." They are spaces for the imagination to run free beyond the city walls. |
