Fergal Stapleton

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Fergal Stapleton Exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery

And A Door Opened.3.
Fergal Stapleton
And A Door Opened.3.

2007

Black perspex, electrical fittings, red lightbulbs, polystyrene, concrete hardcore, wood cabling

130 x 66 x 54 cm

These sculptures by Fergal Stapleton trigger a certain range of half-recognitions: DIY science fiction props; orreries assembled from hi-fi store kit parts; minor events at Earth’s orbital margin. Their precision and impoverishment are exactly what make them so astoundingly magical: each one embodies a universe. Inside their dark Perspex enclosures amongst the loops of electrical cable, sit two or three modest items – a concrete chunk, a Styrofoam disc, and other matter found or made, some of it revolving perpetually, slowly under red light-bulbs, creating wondrous parallel microcosms from humble materials.

And A Door Opened.6.

And A Door Opened.6. (detail)
Fergal Stapleton
And A Door Opened.6.

2007

Black perspex, electrical fittings, red lightbulbs, polystyrene, concrete hardcore, wood cabling

130 x 66 x 54 cm

Stapleton’s varied practice (including painting and sculpture) is bound by a concern with elucidating various phases of the fictive, the apparent and the real. His And A Door Opened assemblages, holding in equilibrium the fantastical with the blunt actualities of junk, exemplify this in their reordering of things known, producing new and surprising value out of meagre means. The red-black glow emanating from the dark vitrines, reminiscent of photographic darkrooms, gives the effect of an image half-developed, caught between latency and realisation.


Fergal Stapleton's Biography

Fergal Stapleton
1961 Born, Ireland
Lives and works in London


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2009
If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul V22, London

2007
And a Door Opened, Carl Freedman Gallery, London

2005
Stapleton Grey, Counter Gallery, London

2003
I Shall Arrive Soon, Counter Gallery, London

2002
Crack Whore, Five Years, London

2001
Bad Ape Report, Neon gallery Billboard, London

2000
This, Platform, London
Rank Cheeseboard, Five Years, London

1996
Riutsu Centre, Tokyo

1995
Tonight, The Agency, London

1993
His manner of entertaining us...the worst thing I have ever done, The Agency, London


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2009
V22 Presents: The Sculpture Show, Almond Building, London

2008
The Wharf Road Project, V22, London
Space Now, Space Studios, London

2006
Toutes Compositions Florales. Counter Gallery, London

2003
Picture Room, Gasworks, London
The Straight Or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art, London
Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London

2002
The Ink Jetty, Neon, London
The Green Room, Percy Miller, London
The Difference Between You and Me, Five Years, London
Plinth, The Trade Apartment, London

2001
ARCO, Madrid
Being and Nothingness , Workplace, Toronto
Dot, Teesdale Yard, London, touring to Arthur Rose London and The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

2000
Serial Killers, Platform, London, touring to Christopher Cutts, Toronto

1998
Resolute, Platform, London
Root, The Chisenhale, London

1997
Class Vegas, The Embassy, London
Martin, The Commercial Gallery, London
Craft, Richard Salmon, London
Craft, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Light, Richard Salmon, London and Spacex, Exeter
The Unadorned Hardcore World of the Anabolic Mutant in Stir �
with Rebecca Warren, The Showroom, London
His manner of entertaining us...the worst thing I have ever done, The Agency, London

1996
50X50X50X50, Bank, London
Smart Artfair, Stockholm
I Beg to Differ, Milch, London
Out of Space, Cole & Cole, Oxford
Viper: Bank TV, Bank, London
NIS Project at World PC Expo, Makuhari, Tokyo
The Happy Shopper, Elephant & Castle, London
Dog-U-Mental VIII: Stapleton�s Last Show , Bank, London

1995
RW, GG, FS, - with Rebecca Warren, Graham Gussin
Laure Genillard Gallery, London

1994
Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and Konstmuseum, Uppsala
Die Zweite Wirchlichkeit, Galerie Michael Schill, Stuttgart
Mind The Gap: Hardcopys und Technologische Bilder, Galerie/Edition Voges & Deisen, Frankfurt
Miniatures, The Agency, London
50X50X50X50, Cologne, 1994Fergal Stapleton & Edwin David, The Agency, London
Retrospective: Your Mother - with Rebecca Warren, 152c Brick Lane, London

1993
The Infanta of Castile, London