Forthcoming Exhibitions - FOLD Gallery

Forthcoming Exhibitions - FOLD Gallery | London

FOLD Gallery London is pleased to announce the continuation of their programme of solo shows. These consist of two separate solo shows that run simultaneously, presenting two separate bodies of work within the same space. However, there is no major physical divide within the gallery to set them apart.

The intention is to present the viewer with a unique opportunity to form their own conclusions regarding the relationships between the separate shows. The hope is that the gallery, rather than intervening, is acting as a catalyst for these events to unfold.

DAN DAVIS - SODIUM VAPOUR NIGHT LIGHT

Private View | Friday 21st June, 6 - 9 pm
Exhibition | Saturday 22nd June - Saturday 20th July 2013

The notion of a Sodium Vapour Night Light, came about when the artist arrived home late one night after a long day in the studio. His bedroom window was permeated with a deep orange glow emanating from the streetlights below. The white blinds in the window obscured full view and the condensation on the glass refracted the light in a pleasingly hellish vision. Davis re-creates this in the gallery, as itsâ€™ reminiscent of how film set windows were often never really windows to the outside, but windows to a re-creation of the outside.

This continues Davisâ€™ pre-occupation with a broader Ballardian view that all signs and codes of civilization were set-like in their exchangeability and ripeness for dismantlement. This coupled with an awareness of art display as a staged event. â€˜While these tenets relay more than a hint of cynicism, I prefer to take the opposite sentiment, in that awareness of this can open up a potential for art as a psychological/imaginative realm.â€™

Sodium Vapour Night Light contains paintings and sculpture from a disparate engagement the artist has with both Rainer Werner Fassbinderâ€™s brief foray into science-fiction in World on a Wire (1973), and the notion of the â€˜executiveâ€™ figure in late-capitalist western commerce.

http://www.foldgallery.com/exhibition/sodium-vapour-night-light/

ASMUND HAVSTEEN-MIKKELSEN - LOOK AT THIS WORLD

Private View | Friday 21st June, 6 - 9 pm
Exhibition | Saturday 22nd June - Saturday 20th July 2013

Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen explores painterly space, drawing inspiration from the built environment via photography and models. His paintings often explore the utopian aspirations attached to the meaning of the private space, contextualised within the history of Modernism and current architectural discourse.

His work is permeated by an acute interest in to how architectural structures function as extensions of human consciousness, while testifying to the contemporary understanding of the human condition. Havsteen-Mikkelsen presents built environments as sites of conflict, the architectural structures being the visual representation of both a conscious and unconscious perception of the body.

The works in his show Look At This World can be seen as a tribute to film director Jacques Tati and the subtle critique of contemporary life in his film Playtime from 1967. All the paintings have been inspired from stills from the film, but transformed and interpreted in a new direction with a stronger focus on the abstract nature of architecture and its impact on the human mind.

http://www.foldgallery.com/exhibition/look-at-this-world/

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