Lanzarote

Keith Talent Presents

‘LANZAROTE’

A Group show.

June 3rd – August 9th 2009

Pia Camil
Tomoo Gokita
Michael Kirkham
Alice Walton
George Young

Named after the impressive volcanic island and the novella by Michel Houellebecq, the protagonist contemplating the islands terrain states 'the conflict of the island, the volcanoes creation and the sea is destruction.'
Using both the dynamic and illustrious narrative of the book and the book as an object, Lanzarote brings together five artists whose work uses many additional and reductive processes that either explore a succinct narrative or leave work near a state of collapse.

The striking diagonals of Pia Camil construct space, ominous hoarding frames the architecture of the physical and aesthetic space. Her works act as a silhouette to make the viewer simultaneously conscious of
a confined container that is the gallery space.

Tomoo Gokita works in a painterly language to form a figurative landscape awash with abstract rhetoric. The monochromatic paintings of figurative elements are fused with swabs of paint that, in turn, exist as a rendering of an abstract painting.

The paintings of Michael Kirkham are voyeuristic visions, showing in Lanzarote are a series of prints and a painting containing a gloved hand that is engaged with various sexual encounters, the hand coming from within the viewers space, causes the viewer to be involved in an ambivalent sexual act.

Alice Walton constructions are made of various building materials to construct pillars to display collages and drawings. The pillar acts as a playful; architectural monument, while the drawings of obscured images render cancellations out of found photographic material.

George Young pars down the surface and support structure, highly finished stretcher frames are leant against the wall, surrounded by works that shift in focus through painterly technique and in the origin of the image.

Pia Camil is a recent graduate from the Slade School of Fine Art,
Tomoo Gokita born 1969 Tokyo, Japan. Recent exihibitions include Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo and is represented by ATM Gallery, New York.
Michael Kirkham was born 1971, lives and works in Berlin, recent exhibitions include Gemeente Mueseum Den Haag, and is represented by Aschenbach and Hofland, Amsterdam.
Alice Walton born 1972 lives and works in London, forthcoming exhibitions include
‘one thing against another’ Aspex, Portmouth.
George Young born 1981 is a recent graduate from the RCA.

Keith Talent Gallery Unit 1 266 Cambridge Heath Rd London E2 9DA
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Opening Hours Wednesday – Saturday 12.00pm – 6.00pm