EITHER THOSE CURTAINS Victoria Adam, Matt Ager, Laura Bygrave, Dan Davis, Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Bruce McLean, Ian Monroe, Mary Wintour
EITHER THOSE CURTAINS Victoria Adam, Matt Ager, Laura Bygrave, Dan Davis, Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, Bruce McLean, Ian Monroe, Mary Wintour EXHIBITION Friday 13th May to Saturday 18th June Either those curtains go, or I do. Oscar Wilde This exhibition explores how the arrangement of personal interior space can reflect our attitudes to the shared social construction of civility in the exterior world. The interior of a home surpasses the concept of it being merely a dwelling space, as we arrange and augment interior space in a way that echoes our values. While public social events take place under the influence of the spatial architectonics ascribed by a third party, the home is a curated realm where smaller and more direct social gatherings are inherently dominated by the individual. And come to think of it, isn t this world we live in itself like a giant model room? We come in, sit down, have a cup of tea, and when the time comes we say thank you and leave. All the furniture is fake. Even the moon hanging in the window may be made of paper. Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Either Those Curtains explores an artistic response to interior space as the true central point of individual freedom, both in the physical sense of a body in a space, and cognitive inner space. To illustrate how we can use these spaces to comply with systemic conformity or create auxiliary logics and perceptual alternatives. While the mid-twentieth century brought with it a burgeoning sense of modernist optimism, which coincided with an aspirational conceit, today sees a more fragmented schema in regards to the value of interior. From the urban luxury high-rise, to gated communities, to poor doors, properties are now bought and sold based on 3D computer renderings years before being built. What does this say of our current notion of the home? Is the last bastion or fortress of individual civility also an illusion, does emphasis on the virtual also cause our perception of our own space to become virtual?
NOT ME BUT ME Victoria Adam 2016 Ciment Fondu, liquid soap, glazed ceramic, crisp packet, and resin 8 x 57 x 31 cm
Background: SATINTAUPE STAYING-IN Victoria Adam 2016 Aluminium foil tray, card, jesmonite, perspex, and resin 14 x 32 x 26 cm Foreground: FRESHWATER OFFICE-CHIC Victoria Adam 2016 Aluminium foil tray, card, jesmonite, graphite powder, resin, and perspex 22 x 32 x 26 cm
LAND DIRECT Matt Ager 2016 Toughened glass, bamboo, and door mats 19 x 180 x 120 cm
LAND DIRECT Matt Ager 2016 Toughened glass, bamboo, and door mats 19 x 180 x 120 cm
MADE IN PORTUGAL Matt Ager 2015 MDF, wallpaper and ceramic 56 x 120 x 36 cm
ROCKWOOD GRAND Matt Ager 2016 Toughened glass, bamboo, and door mats 34 x 140 x 80 cm
OGMIOS laura Bygrave 2015 Oil on canvas 130.5 x 150 cm
ANCIENTS laura Bygrave 2015 Oil on canvas 126 x 160 cm
THE VAPOUR WAVE Dan Davis 2016 Oil on canvas 160 x 130 cm
BEVERLY S PILLS Dan Davis 2015 Oil on canvas 130 x 120 cm
GOODBYE CURTAINS Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen 2016 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 cm
PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen 2016 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 cm
SECRET CORNER Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen 2016 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 cm
UNTITLED Bruce McLean 2013 Oil, acrylic, and pencil on canvas 100 x 132 cm
UNTITLED Bruce McLean 2013 Oil, acrylic, and chalk on canvas 90 x 65 cm
CHANGING ROOM Bruce McLean 2013 Pencil, acrylic, and collage on paper 76 x 102 cm
JAMES (ACCOUNTS) Ian Monroe 2016 Carpet, aluminium, vinyl, Alupanel, and MDF 174 x 101 x 76 cm
BELLA (COMPLIANCE) Ian Monroe 2016 Carpet, aluminium, map pins, brass, vinyl, and MDF 127 x 87 x 60 cm
THE EAGERNESS OF OBJECTS Mary Wintour 2014 Oil and collage on card 77.5 x 112 cm
A CERTAIN ORDERLINESS Mary Wintour 2015 Acrylic and collage on paper 33 x 23 cm
LITERAL DRIFT Mary Wintour 2014 Acrylic and collage on paper 33.2 x 34.7 cm
Victoria Adam, b. 1983, Somerset, UK. Lives and works in. Graduated from Royal Academy Schools,, in 2015. Exhibitions include: Zabludowicz Invites solo (forthcoming), (2016), Leks solo, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam (2016), Concrete Matters, Bank Space Gallery, (2016), Joel Wyllie & Victoria Adam, Kennington Space, (2015), and BB#8: Dawdle, Space, (2013) Matt Ager, b. 1985, St Albans, UK. Lives and works in. Graduated from Royal Academy Schools,, in 2015. Exhibitions include: Sunday School #11 solo, DAM Projects, Sheer Like, Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Belgium (2015), Suzuki Montage solo, Space in Between, (2014), Classic Poncho solo, The China Shop, Oxford (2013), Is it Heavy or Is it Light, Assembly Point, (2016), Premiums, Royal Academy Schools, (2014), and Artist Make Pub Signs/GROUP SHOW, Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Space in Between, Open Cube, White Cube, (2013) Laura Bygrave, b.1984, Norwich, UK. Lives and works in Norfolk and Amsterdam. Graduated from the Royal College of Art,, in 2010. Exhibitions include: Demolition Derby, FOLD Gallery, (2015), Limbo Associate Members Show 2014 selected by Bob and Roberta Smith and Sarah Martin, Limbo, Margate, Ride The Judd, Act II: Start by Stirring, Hardy Tree Gallery, and Creekside Open selected by Paul Noble, APT Gallery,. Dan Davis, b. 1978, Indiana, USA. Lives and works in. Graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art (MA),, in 2004. Exhibitions include: ArtWorks Open 2015, Barbican Arts Group Trust, (2015), Summer Mix, Turps Gallery, (2015), DKUK, Ancient and Modern,, (2013), and Octave, Chisenhale Gallery, (2012). Awards include: The Celeste Painting Prize (2006) Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen, b. 1977, Aeroe, DK. Lives and works in Berlin. Graduated from Royal Academy of Fine Arts (MFA), Copenhagen, in 2009. Exhibitions include: New Buildings solo (with Jesper Rasmussen), Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus (2016), The Infinity Complex solo, Galleri Kant, Copenhagen (2014), Approximations solo, Charlottenburg Amtsgericht, Berlin (2013), 50x50x50, Kastrupgaardsamlingen, Copenhagen (2016), and Picture Poking Pulling, Nissen Contemporary, Copenhagen (2015). Collections include: Copenhagen City Counsil, Denmark Ian Monroe, b. 1972, Cooperstown, New York. Lives and works in. Graduated from Goldsmiths College (MA), University of, in 2002. Exhibitions include: And Also The View solo, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid (2012), Currents 105 solo, Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis (2011), The Instantaneous Everything solo, Haunch of Venison, Berlin (2008), Out of the Darkness, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (2015), Existencias, Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Castilla Y Leon, Leon, Spain (2007), and Edge of the Real, Whitechapel Gallery, (2004). Collections include: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, the Saatchi Collection, Bruce McLean, b. 1944, Glasgow, UK. Lives and works in. Graduated from St Martin s School of Art,, in 1965. Exhibitions include: GOMA, solo, Brisbane (2016), Tate Gallery, solo, (1985), Whitechapel Art Gallery, solo, (1983), Modern Art Gallerie, solo, Vienna (1982), Early Works 1967-1975 solo, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1975), King for a Day solo, Tate Gallery, (1972), Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964 1979, Tate Britain, (2016), Out of Action; Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1997), Berlinart 1961-1987, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1987), Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980s, British Council and Musee d Art Moderne, Brussels (1987), New Art, Tate Gallery, (1983). Performances include: A Ball is not Dancing School, Whitechapel Art Gallery, (1988), Simple Manners and Physical Violence, Tate Gallery, (1985). Collections include: The British Council, Galerie Gmyrek, Dusseldorf, National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Tate Gallery,, South Bank Centre,, Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Mary Wintour, b.1988,, UK. Lives and works in. Graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2010. Exhibitions include: I Thought You Knew, joint show with Emmie McLuskey, Intermedia Gallery, CCA,Glasgow (2016), The Other Side, Group Show, Chelsea Art s Club, (2015), Curated by Paul Smith and Friends, Albemarle St, (2014), Premio Combat Prize, Museo Civico G. Fattori, Livorno, Italy (2014), At Land, Market Gallery, Glasgow (2013), and New Contemporaries 2011, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (2011) VISIT US OPENING TIMES Wednesday - Saturday 12-6pm (or by appointment) CONTACT US foldgallery.com