- Venue
- Tenderpixel Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, January 9, 2010
- Ends
- Saturday, February 6, 2010
- Address
- 10 Cecil Court London WC2N 4HE
- Location
- London
PV SAt 9 JAN 6-9PMTenderpixel presents new work by Tom Badley. Badley seeks to derive experimental new forms from an appropriative impulse. His latest creation represents his continued interest in the emblem of a ‘one key piano’. Resisting the traditional structural tension of contemporary ‘sculpture’, Badley’s creation is more akin to a scientific equation, consecrated as a three-dimensional model. To what formula does it propose an answer to? Perhaps, it can be read as the distillation of decoration and multitude, to a single point that can be repeated like a mantra. As a result, the meaning of a single note reverberates over time, as each urge to repeat dissolves abstraction, and amplifies intent. Much like an out-of-place-artifact, the work becomes a thought-machine of the future, waiting to be activated by some undiscovered mental process. Tom Badley is fascinated by themes of catastrophe and fragmentation. In particular, he is concerned with investigating the idea of ‘Seamless Breakage’: the paradoxical processes whereby things avert death through their own forms of auto-destruction, as both naturally occuring and an important aspect of our unique historical moment. Tom Badley was born in 1985 in Aylesbury, England. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Cooper Union School in New York.
