Exhibition
Cacotopia 04 | Week 2
23 Jan 2020 – 25 Feb 2020
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- Unit 9
- 472 Hackney Road
- London
England - E2 9EQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bethnal Green
CACOTOPIA 04 is the fourth edition of Annka Kultys Gallery's annual survey of leading emerging artists within the contemporary art space. The exhibition features the work of Nicole Coson, Bex Ilsley, Garrett Pruter and Richie Culver.
About
Annka Kultys Gallery is pleased to present CACOTOPIA 04, the fourth edition of its annual survey of leading emerging artists within the contemporary art space. This year’s exhibition features the work of Nicole Coson, Bex Ilsley, Garrett Pruter and Richie Culver and follows its now traditional format of allocating each artist a solo exhibition of one week’s gallery time during the month long show.
Nicole Coson | Week 1
16 January – 18 January 2020
Bex Ilsley | Week 2
23 January – 25 January 2020
Garrett Pruter | Week 3
30 January – 1 February 2020
Richie Culver | Week 4
6 February – 8 February 2020
The works of the four artists in the show highlight the blurring and perhaps increasingly symbiotic relationships between the once separate disciplines of painting, photography and more recently digital art; an unambiguous counterpoint to the earlier art historical notion of medium specificity developed by Modernist critics, most notably Clement Greenberg and Michael Friedman. Greenberg in his Modern Painting essay of 1960, for example, explained “medium specificity holds that ‘the unique and proper area of competence’ for a form of art corresponds with the ability of an artist to manipulate those features that are ‘unique to the nature’ of a particular medium.” Hence if there is a unifying theme that links the respective works in CACOTOPIA 04 it may very loosely and imperfectly be described as one of medium unspecificity; an anti-specificity or even medium ambiguity.
Bex Ilsley (b. [1996], England; BA (Hons) Fine Art at Manchester School of Art, Manchester, 2016; lives and works in London) will show work in the exhibition’s second week. Ilsley is a transdisciplinary artist working across video, photography, performance, virtual reality, installation and sculpture. Her work explores the spaces between the real and virtual and the self and the other. Ilsley looks at online trends and oddities, seeking to parody them as a form of critique. For CACOTOPIA 04 Ilsley will present several vibrant, large digital prints on fabric from her Splits (2019) series accompanied by videos from the same series. The works themselves are the product of an artistic exploration of what it means to experience an ‘unstable sense of self’ (at both a personal and universal level) in the age of Instagram-reality and the ‘Good Vibes Only’ cult. In each work Ilsley can be seen performing a different version of herself, similar to the way Cindy Sherman created and performed different roles within her photography, but in a tech-stylised aesthetic featuring saturated fluorescent and neon colours.
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