NEW WORK PART II: MATERIAL: Group Exhibition
past exhibition
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Caroline Achaintre | Alice Anderson | Sam Austen | Antony Cairns | Fernando Casasempere | Xavier Robles De Medina | Nick Doyle | Willa Hilditch | Henry Hudson | Kristina Horne | Agata Ingarden | Ann Cathrin November Høibo | Rasmus Søndergaard Johannsen Thomas Langley | Caroline Larsen | Dean Levin | Lindsey Mendick | Nissa Nishikawa | Irvin Pascal | Ren Ri | Meekyoung Shin | Linnéa Sjöberg | Graham Wilson | Hirosuke Yabe
Cob Gallery is pleased to present NEW WORK PART II: MATERIAL - a group show forming the second edition in a three-part exhibition series and following on from FORM earlier in 2018.
NEW WORK PART I, II, III: FORM, MATERIAL, SUBJECT will exhibit selected groups of international multidisciplinary artists who bring distinct voices and striking approaches to these three fields of enquiry.
The three-part series format is inspired by a programme devised at Green Gallery, New York. Between 1960 and 1965, curator Richard Bellamy chose to exhibit the work of emerging artists who were redefining what art was, taking it into new directions, and using materials and forms in innovative ways.
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MATERIAL brings together works from international, emerging and established artists, who have become known for an unwavering experimentation in their application and manipulation of their chosen, more often than not, unconventional artistic materials. Presented as a meeting of painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography and mixed media works, this exhibition examines the dialogue between the organic versus the manufactured and the mechanical, as well as the unconventional use of common place or invented materials versus the traditional.
The exhibition also presents a juxtaposition of the natural and the man-made- and through the prism of 'the artist's hand' opens up a wider discourse on man's interference on, and appropriation of, the natural world and the materials we extract from it. Sculptures made from beeswax, caramel, soap, nettle fibre and human hair, are set against works constructed from manufactured material including steel, VHS tape, industrial waste, and copper wire.
A connoisseurship of specialised materials and techniques are presented through a roster of artists whose investigations are hinged to an expanded conceptual approach to traditional craft. Here, the artist's subverted approach to weaving, Nata carving, and ceramics challenge the traditional notions of craftsmanship, and its significance in a fine art context. Also presented are early photochemical processes that have been reinvigorated as an edition series created by a contemporary painter.
Finally, painting, sculpture, photography and drawing are dissected through both the selection and application of materials and techniques. Three dimensional paintings, graphite drawings cast as sculpture, academic drawings depicting staged scenes of sculpture and painting, and photographs produced through e-ink screens, toy with formalism, and deliberately challenge the conventional attributes of traditional mediums.
MATERIAL is an exhibition which binds the artists on display in their collective fascination of the material wrought-ness of the art object- their mediums of choice are inextricable to their unique artistic aesthetic and pertinent to their conceptual practice. Similarly, there are artists who approach medium as synonymous with autobiographical or socio-political expression, and in ritualistic or performative application can be viewed as an extension of the psychoanalytical process.
Works
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Agata IngardenSweaty Hands, 2017Steel, enamel, copper and caramel2900 x 500 mm
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Linnéa SjöbergThe Wild Bunch, 2016VHS tape and bra underwire constructions1600 x 490 mm
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Thomas LangleySTUFF IS TUFF, 2018Spray paint, oil and oil bar on birch ply1050 x 500 mm
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Meekyoung ShinTranslation VasesSoap, pigment, varnish and wooden cratevase: 380 x 220 x 220 mm
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Meekyoung ShinTranslation VasesSoap, pigment, varnish and wooden cratevase: 520 x 330 x 330 mm
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Meekyoung ShinTranslation VasesSoap, pigment, varnish and wooden cratevase: 540 x 290 x 290 mm
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Hirosuke YabeUntitled (151), 2017Wood145 x 90 x 56 mm
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Hirosuke YabeUntitled (162), 2017Wood368 x 310 x 165 mm
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Hirosuke YabeUntitled (175), 2017Wood83 x 145 x 80 mm
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Hirosuke YabeUntitled (53), 2017Wood and cashew paint365 x 110 x 110 mm
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Hirosuke YabeUntitled (58), 2017Wood685 x 115 x 130 mm
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Hirosuke YabeUntitled (y_02), 2018Wood178 x 58 x 65 mm
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Hirosuke YabeUntitled (y_10), 2017Wood178 x 35 x 26 mm
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Henry HudsonPlate 10 detail from ‘The Rise and Fall of Young Sen’ - Sky, 2017Woodburytype printImage size: 100 x 150 mm
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Henry HudsonPlate 2 detail from ‘The Rise and Fall of Young Sen’ - I love NHS, 2017Woodburytype printImage size: 150 x 100 mm
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Henry HudsonPlate 5 detail from ‘The Rise and Fall of Young Sen’ - Las Vegas, 2017Woodburytype printImage size: 100 x 150 mm
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Henry HudsonPlate 5 detail from ‘The Rise and Fall of Young Sen’ - Mustique, 2017Woodburytype printImage size: 150 x 100 mm
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Henry HudsonPlate 5 detail from ‘The Rise and Fall of Young Sen’ - Saint Mary, 2017Woodburytype printImage size: 150 x 100 mm
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Henry HudsonPlate 6 detail from ‘The Rise and Fall of Young Sen’ - Chadwick, 2017Woodburytype printImage size: 100 x 150 mm
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Henry HudsonPlate 8 detail from ‘The Rise and Fall of Young Sen’ - $, 2017Woodburytype printImage size: 150 x 100 mm
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Caroline LarsenSpringtime Madness, 2018Oil on board510 x 510 mm
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Lindsey MendickMeal Deal Realness, 2017Glazed ceramic430 x 295 x 295 mm
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Rasmus Søndergaard JohannsenLinneated Luminary, 2018Stinging nettles, cyanotype, robinia wood and roofing lead990 x 990 mm
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Irvin PascalYoung Chief, 2018'Pascollar' (mixed media and artist's hair)1080 x 570 x 65 mm
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Ren RiYuansu Chain Series I, RG-1, 2014 - 2015Acrylic box, natural beeswax and natural dye400 x 800 x 400 mm
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Caroline AchaintreFringe, 2017Ceramic230 x 190 mmEdition 2/10
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Ann Cathrin November HøiboUntitled (It's Not the Title Because it Doesn't Make Sense Anymore #07), 2012Nylon weaving in ash wood frame540 x 420 x 30 mm
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Nissa NishikawaAmaterra Organ 7, 2018Stoneware clay, sawdust, bison hair, crow feathers and horse dung235 mm Ø
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Graham WilsonFootloose, 2018Oil, twine and canvas1626 x 1880 mm
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Willa HilditchSlink, 2018Graphite, paper, glass, tape, wood and bracket460 x 660 mm
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Willa HilditchUpstage, 2018Graphite, paper, glass and tape285 x 420 mm
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Fernando CasasempereGeology 4, 2015Porcelain, stoneware and cobalt290 x 250 x 300 mm
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Fernando CasasempereTectonic 14, 2014Porcelain and stoneware210 x 190 x 170 mm
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Fernando CasasempereUntitled, 2017Porcelain and industrial waste420 x 490 x 180 mm
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Nick DoyleI Only Have Eyes For You, 2018Di-bond, walnut, machine bolts and 12v motor762 x 609.6 x 88.9 mm
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Dean LevinGood News Travels Slow, 2015UV curable ink on polished steel and oil on linen1778 x 1016 mm (each panel)
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Xavier Robles de Medinain the realm of translation, 2014 - 2018Cast graphite and plaster440 x 330 x 80 mmEdition of 4 plus 1 artist's proof
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Sam AustenA Cool Drink to Cheek, 201416m onto HD8:47 minutes
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Antony CairnsE.I. LPT02, 2015E-ink screen and perspex frame101 x 129 mm
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Antony CairnsE.I. TYO2_078, 2017E-ink screen and perspex frame101 x 129 mm
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Antony CairnsE.I. TYO2_078, 2017E-ink screen and perspex frame101 x 129 mm
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Antony CairnsE.I. TYO2_088, 2017E-ink screen and perspex frame101 x 129 mm
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Antony CairnsE.I. TYO2_092, 2017E-ink screen and perspex frame101 x 129 mm
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Antony CairnsE.I. TYO2_114,, 2017E-ink screen and perspex frame101 x 129 mm
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Kristina Horne, Corporeal Transition III, 2017
Installation Views
Press
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NEW WORK PART II: MATERIAL GROUP EXHIBITION
Mark Westall, Fad, July 23, 2018 -
Meekyoung Shin at Dover Street Market London
Mark Westall, Fad, July 22, 2018 -
A Group Exhibition Exploring the Manipulation and Application of Material
SATmag, July 11, 2018 -
The Philistine: The Very Best Of London Culture This July
Something Curated, June 29, 2018 -
New Work Part II: Material
Wall Street International, June 28, 2018 -
Group exhibition at the Cob Gallery explores the manipulation and application of material
artdaily, June 21, 2018