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Caroline Achaintre, Scanner
Exhibition
Scanner
28 Nov 2018 – 22 Dec 2018
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
by appointment - Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
by appointment - Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
by appointment - Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
by appointment
Address
- 87 Lever Street
- London
England - EC1V 3RA
- United Kingdom
Caroline Achaintre
‘Scanner’
November 28 - December 22, 2018
About
London-based Caroline Achaintre’s watercolours and prints sit at the heart of a multi-disciplinary practice, which also traverses textiles and ceramics. Renowned for working in vibrant colour and potent imagery, Achaintre’s work often evokes a subversive spirit of carnival, creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously playful and absurd.While drawing on traditional European festivals, still a regular, seasonal occurrence in towns and villages throughout the continent, often typified by centuries-old customs and darkly-fantastical costume, the artist simultaneously makes links to contemporary sub-cultural strands of sci-fi, the goth-metal scene, psychedelia and horror films.
Caroline Achaintre (1969, FR)
She spent her formative years in Germany studying Fine Art at Kunsthochschule in Halle/Saale (1996-98), with her postgraduate Studies in Fine Art and Combined Media at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK (1998- 2000) and a MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, UK (2001-03). Recent solo exhibitions include: Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, DE (2018); Touchstones Rochdale, UK (2018); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK (2018); Museo de Arte Precolombiano, Casa del Abado, Quito, EC (2017-18); FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR (2017); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2016); TATE Britain, London, UK (2015); Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT (2015-16) She lives and works in London.
