Patrick Coyle* - 8pm
Johan Eldrot
Hedwig Houben* - 7.45pm
Alex Lawler
* Private View Performances
Private View Friday 16 December, 7-9pm, Open 17 - 22 December 2011, 12-5pm
52 Haymarket St, Piccadilly SW1Y 4RP
Invisible forms, products and potentialities brings together a set of four artistic practices that reflect upon objects at a given point of production—in some cases dispersed, formless and still in the process of being manifested. Works re-present and appropriate historical references for a potential use, other works openly deliberate on an object of the future.
The appearance of past events shifts towards the speculation upon future events. Referencing human nature’s interest and ability to conceptualise future events, polymorphic artworks are presented here as the central carrier of meaning. Invisible forms, products and potentialities cuts through notions of lineal time, presenting a site that contends to explore how contemporary objects can detach themselves from the present whilst asking, what is the image of the forthcoming? What are we to expect from it? What form might it take?
Curated by Robert Spragg
Patrick Coyle (B.1983 Hull, based in London) MFA in Art Writing at Goldsmiths University (2010) and BA in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, University of the Arts, London (2005). Recent shows in 2011 include CONCRETE POETRY, Hayward Concrete Café, London; Fig 3: I don’t know what to say, The David Roberts Art Foundation; Artprojx Cinema at the SVA Theatre, New York and The Bottom Line, Tenderpixel, London.
Johan Eldrot (B.1983 Falun, Sweden, based in Stockholm) currently studying towards MFA at Konstfack, Stockholm (2013), BFA at Konstfack (2011) and BA in Art History at Uppsala University, Sweden (2007). Recent shows in 2011 include Astral Projection, into the Expanse, Pianissimo, Milan and Have you seen this Guy’s Work? Soft Spot Gallery, University of Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
Hedwig Houben (B.1983 Boxtel, Netherlands, based in Brussels) graduated from the Higher Institute for Fine Arts Flanders (HISK), Ghent (2011) and The Art Academy Dusseldorf (2007). Recent exhibitions in 2011 include Found In Translation, Casino, Luxembourg; OOO, Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne; The Shape of Forms to Come, Kuttner Siebert Galerie, Berlin and Making is Thinking, Witte de With, Rotterdam.
Alex Lawler (B.1981 Milan, based in London) MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University (2011), Heimo Zobernig Class Academy of Fine Art, Vienna (2009), MA in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2008) and BA in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts (2004). Recent exhibitions in 2011 include The Object as Image, Ve.sche, Vienna; Silver Moon, Galerie Lisa Ruyer, Vienna and Prima Interventionen, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria.