- Venue
- Transition Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, October 8, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, October 30, 2011
- Address
- Unit 25a Regent Studios 12 Andrews Road London E8 4QN
- Location
- London
There are five artists showing in Face to Face at Transition Gallery. Yasemin Senel disrupts the iconography of myths to make them give up the ghost in the jubilant act of painting, with the inclusion of birds lending the work a shamanistic quality. Manon Bara overworks the embellishments of her subjects so that they become obscured behind their painterly bodyworks, the work being as much about the painting itself as about the ‘subject’. Bruno Hellenbosch depicts intricate universes that bring to mind fairy story, gothic landscapes suffused with an overgrown, overblown, out-of-control nature. Annabelle Guetatra makes intricate and sexually explicit drawings whose ‘ink on a pin’ aesthetic is imbued with a haunting melancholy. Kate Lyddon’s paintings, which mix collage and sometimes synthetic hair, have a theatrical quality. Her figures, often dancers or gymnasts, are presented within a scenic arena. Lyddon states that depicting a moving body lets her be open and offers multiple possibilities for depicting her subjects.
