'Insurgencies': A painting show curated by Peter Lamb

Insurgencies – by Shane Bradford & Peter Lamb

Sept 2^nd-3^rd October 2011

'Insurgencies' opens Fri September 2^nd 2011 at the intriguing, privately run, not-for-profit space Angus-Hughes in Clapton, London. Conceived and organized by Rise Art Select Artist Peter Lamb and Shane Bradford the show emphasizes artistic strategies that use ideas of collapse and failure to energise their work and aims to recreate conditions that nurture insurgent attitudes often homogenised by the familial processes of art world presentation and consumption.

As well as curating Lamb and Bradford will exhibit along side some of their contemporaries, almost all in-demand artists at different stages of their careers. Including Nina Beier, Oscar Murillo, Hans Jörg Mayer, Thomas Øvlisen, Aney Catford and Ruairiadh O'Connell.

Each artist in the show demonstrates a willingness to demote or jeopardise artistic authority in favour of an acknowledgement of paintings’ shortcomings - as a paradoxical means to its re-invigoration. The subject of these works often manifests as a cross-examination of real-life circumstance, demonstrating an instinctive need to question the validity of the criteria by which it is judged. The exhibition itself performs an active function that seeks‘…to recreate the emptiness where the pure event of form can take place.

Strategies vary of course; differences are naturally as common as similarities. Failure to synchronise is celebrated however; positive energy generated by friction. Each attempt is doomed and vital, fuelled by its own collapse.  Contradiction, confusion, changes-of-mind, multiple-viewpoints, disappearance, refraction, mistakes and cancellations are all proof of active thinking and reflect more clearly the skittishness of the contemporary Western psyche.

Shane Bradford (UK)(b. 1971) – has exhibited extensively in England, Scandinavia, Europe and the United States throughout the last decade. He was the winner of the 2007 Celeste Painting Prize. He currently lives and works in London.

Peter Lamb (UK)(b. 1973) – has also exhibited widely in England, Iceland, Europe and the United States since leaving art school in 1996. Recent exhibitions include ‘Das Vertraute Unvertraute’ at the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart and solo exhibitions in London, Houston and Los Angeles.

Private view on Friday the 2nd from 6-9pm. All welcomed!

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Angus-Hughes Gallery

26 Lower Clapton Rd

(at the junction of Urswick Rd)

London, E5 0PD

Train:

Hackney Central
Hackney Downs

Bus:
106, 254, 253, 55, 48, 38

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