Exhibition
Robert Platt, Huntorama
18 Apr 2008 – 18 May 2008
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 6 Heddon Street
- London W1B 4BT
- London
- W1B 4BT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Piccadilly Circus
New paintings by Robert Platt
About
Pippy Houldsworth is proud to present a solo exhibition by Robert Platt. A Royal College of Art alumnus, Platt adopts the medium of painting to explore a series of dichotomies whereby nature and artifice stand opposed. In Huntorama he explores the desire for a lost Eden in a time when nature has become both increasingly mediated and domesticated. Huntorama stages a rich mix of Japanese landscape imbued with a very British sensibility.The artist has noted that he is ultimately ?interested in pursuing this dichotomy of signs in nature?. The palette of the paintings also works in juxtaposition to that which they represent: off-key shaded of pale greens, yellows and neon hues latently insinuating decay. The imagery is drawn from fictional landscapes, folk references and personal photographic archives combined and manipulated on a computer. Despite the relative accuracy achieved by the projected image Platt resorts to sabotage ? the haphazard daubs and drips of paint showing his faithfulness to the medium. The technique becomes as opposed as the subject matter; a bid for technical perfection in conjunction with the opportunism associated with intuition.
Robert Platt is represented by Pippy Houldsworth, London and Gallery Koyanagi, Japan. His work has featured at major international art fairs including Frieze, London and Art Basel, Switzerland. In 2006 Platt was awarded the Vision of Contemporary Art prize at UENO Museum, Tokyo. Exhibitions of note include Tech Mac Maycom, Myonichikan, Japan; Tamed and Framed, Harris Museum, Preston; Dynamic Entropy, Pippy Houldsworth, London; New London Kicks, Soho House, New York.