Exhibition
SUPERFICE
1 Oct 2021 – 31 Oct 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- Closed
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Address
- 94 Webster Road
- Bermondsey
- London
- SE16 4DF
- United Kingdom
SUPERFICE , three-person exhibition selected by Rebecca Geldard under her moniker appleandhat.com, with Christopher Hanlon, Daniel Karrer, Selma Parlour
About
The focus is on abstract painting and its acknowledgement of the surface – works that assert the idea of illusory space or pictorial entry points but essentially keep the attention hovering in a shallow depth of field. Through the use of seductive, sometimes elaborate material strategies obfuscation might be read as a form of painterly resistance.
In all three practices one might encounter an associative swing-door moment between an assertion of aesthetic control and referential territories beyond the compositional map. For Swiss artist Daniel Karrer – the first showing of his work in the UK – the screen is a direct pictorial and psychological reference point within his visceral, if carefully managed, play with paint. Christopher Hanlon’s forensic fabrications, on the other hand, recall the different material flavours of image-making technologies. The interplanar sensibility of Selma Parlour’s architectural configurations, meanwhile, suggests a testing ground of sorts for the potential production of improbable objects, sets, and digital experimentation.
Also in play is the notion of representation on a sliding scale. Even the most reductive of painterly sensibilities chimes with some sense of what we know about reality observed. By contrast, the perfect rendering of the abstract, as encountered in the everyday, can appear faithful to its design principles even if created as a figurative ruse. While in each mode of making evidenced here there are many art-historical traces and moments of homage, this group of ‘baton carriers’ re-introduce us to the familiar on their own exacting terms.
Kindly supported by Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council