.Shane Breynard soft spots Sculpture from Mojacar
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 Shane won this years workspace opportunity in Spain - a studio and appartment in the Andalusian village of Mojacar for four months. While there he created a series of works which were placed around the village. This show exhibits the work in a new setting. |
Opening 4th June 1999 Opening times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday 12.00 noon -
6.00pm. |
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A cluster of punctured plaster screens form the centrepiece of this exhibition. They suggest a drama of concealment and revelation - the seduction of partly obscured vision. The screens are elegantly curved and allude to our screen obsessed age saturated with visual images. They also evoke the screens of Islamic art and architecture whose role it is to hide while at the same time expose, mediating vision through a divinely patterned lattice. SOFT SPOTS is the result of an artist’s residency in Mojácar, in Andalusia, Spain, which took place between December 1998 and April this year. Breynard is the fourth artist to benefit from this residency which is awarded annually by Shillam + Smith.The sculptures in SOFT SPOTS were initially installed in important community places and architectural sites in Mojácar. Spread through the village they formed an artist’s tour of favourite ‘soft’ spots. The sculptures show the influence of vernacular architecture in southern Spain, recalling dovecotes, white washed walls, and the patterns formed by squared flat-roofed houses.Installed at Shillam + Smith 3, the minimalist aesthetic of Breynard’s work comes to the fore. The works become an intervention into an urban interior which extends our experience of light and reflection, and walls and windows, to create a spiritually charged space. In this way the exhibition is a continuation of themes present in the works of Dan Graham, Robert Irwin and Donald Judd. Breynard has an established profile in Australia and has exhibited in Australia, New Zealand and China. His work was included in the 1996 Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia and exhibited at the Australian Centre for Photography in 1998. This will be the artist’s first exhibition in London.
For further details contact Louie Wilkes urbaneye@msn.com |
