Exhibition

Unsolved Equations Do Also Exist

26 Mar 2016 – 2 Apr 2016

Regular hours

Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
12:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
12:00 – 18:00
Thursday
12:00 – 18:00
Friday
12:00 – 18:00

Cost of entry

Free

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Surface Gallery

Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Surface Gallery presents Unsolved Equations Do Also Exist, an exhibition of experimental drawing by Berlin-based artists, Juan Toro and Mirjam Kroker.

About

The desire for the complete image is constantly renewed. The cognitive structure of the world constructed through language is called “image construction”, where language is generated from images: the idea of form and content, as well as other conceptual constellations.

But there is another way the creation of images have been conceived. This is found in the world of art, a technology that is more a metaphor for the construction of ideas with images. The arts belong to a field of open-ended horizons that cannot be observed a priori, because the metaphor is never exhausted. In this sense, the drawing can be translated into a metaphorical imperative.

Even if unsolved equations exist, it is impossible to construct a mathematical system to structure the un-structurable. The work of Toro and Koker lead us into a world of the unexpected where neither causality nor its effects can be discerned.

Juan Toro works with semantic drawings, with details that are not easily perceived. The drawings contain texts and different surfaces that often go unnoticed. In these drawings the intentional and the accidental is difficult to distinguish. Toro's work, in the words of the artist, takes us “beyond the domestication of the surprise”.

Mirjam Kroker's drawings and installations are often configured in constellations of relations between metaphorical referents and linguistic signs, which allude to something that is not immediately apparent, to something beyond the obvious.

Unsolved Equations Do Also Exist will open on Friday 25th April at 18:00 in the Main Gallery. As always, there will be a donations bar, with ales from local brewery, Springhead.

Opening Hours:

Opening Night: Friday 25th March, 6-8pm
Tuesday to Friday: 12:00-18:00
Saturday: 11:00-17:00
16 Southwell Road, Nottingham, NG1 1DL
www.surfacegallery.org

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Mirjam Kroker

Juan Toro

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