- Venue
- Studio 1.1
- Starts
- Wednesday, September 10, 2014
- Ends
- Sunday, September 21, 2014
- Address
- 57A Redchurch Street, London E2 7DJ http://www.studio1-1.co.uk/
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- http://www.joecarter.co/
Private View : Thursday 11th Sept 2014 6-8pm
www.joecarter.com
The aim of all Joe’s work is to capture the point when sound and vision mix with memory and perception to express a modern understanding of the modern world, something which is at once within and without, old and new, solid and shifting and perfectly incomplete.
The work is directly inspired by sources such as Arte Povera and Kenneth Anger in that it makes use of everyday materials and common technologies to express this sophisticated notion by any means possible. Photocopies, household paint, cheap software, basic materials and found objects are utilised and fabricated into specific works all with the one common aim of
expressing where senses and perception meet to make something new and unseen indescribably in the moment and timeless.
The works are made with great care and attention to detail they mostly take years to finish with each one asking to be considered as an entirely complete piece of work in every respect. They present the viewer with a set of mental triggers from which they can make their own meaning and associations and ultimately their own art. The works are deliberately left untitled so as not to be an unnecessary limitation on the interpretation by the viewer.
Joe is a big fan of film and music and loves the combination of the two. The films of directors such as Kubrick and Ozu are a great influence on him. If the films of these directors have a single unifying element it is of a strong sense of the viewers gaze on events. The camera is the all seeing eye, the spectator, the unseen third party in the room of every scene. This manner of direction gives the effect of presenting events through a layer of the viewers own experience which serves to both distance and draw close the story telling element in each scene – here is the modern world, this is the future, there are the olden days and these are the people involved – make of them what you will…or don’t. This notion of the viewer completing the piece is a key
element incorporated into all of Joe’s work. In a sense the show as a whole is a complete work in itself, looking at what it actually is that makes what we call Artwork.
Joe’s worked as a designer in London for 15 years and is pleased to present this work in public for the first time.
For further information and to see the full Artwork images please go to the artists website.
