Compelling Exhibition at Clapham Art Gallery

Friday, 19 May 2006 11:15

London, England - Clapham Art Gallery presents New Figurative Realism, organized by Charlie Smith, London.  The premise is a survey of selected London based and German artists who work with the human figure, prompted by this current tendency amongst leading, cutting edge artists.  Combining painting, installation, video and performance, New Figurative Realism promises to be a compelling exhibition that celebrates humanity in all its disquieting mystery.

Clapham Art Gallery is pleased to continue its collaboration with Tessa Farmer.  Farmer has become well known for her hanging installations made from collected insects and now animal and bird carcasses combined with miniature, skeletal characters made from plants and plant roots.  Farmer spellbinds her audience as the anatomically correct skeletal characters do battle with the insects, creating a fiction that encompasses beauty and horror, violence and death, and life and decay.

Sarah McGinity paints outsized portraits of fictional subjects.  Her poetic works inhabit an ambiguous space between reality and imagination that force one to reconsider notions of form and beauty.  This emphasis on artificial, non-authentic portraiture is a means for the artist to explore her own preconceptions about generic types.  The result is a portrayal of strange, beautiful manifestations that are equally alluring and vacant.

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