'Art SPY' brings you a selection of various Artists and Galleries that we find simply delightful!
This week we preview the amazing work of Artist Ismail Erbil and bring you a double Art SPY this week...
Ismail Erbil Statement:
Erbil uses his background in fashion design as a platform for questioning concepts of the body. Using mannequins as templates he painstakingly re-constructs the corporeal creating a skin or trace of the original inpattern- form and gradually builds up a ‘skin’ that he then stuffs and embellishes.
The seamless reality and manufactured aesthetic of the mannequin is undone through a rigorous process of construction and de-construction. The seam and the stitch become integral to the work imbuing it with the maker’s trace, a quality which is further amplified by the disused industrial context of the exhibition. The mannequin represents an attempt at an utopian ideal of beauty and identity that is subverted by Erbil’s use of the seam as an investigative tool that questions received notions of the body and our idealised experience of it.
The artist explores the relationship between the physical body and the body as symbol. Erbil abstracts and blurs the boundary between real-world and imagined spaces and bodies.
This work is not to be missed below you will find more details about the exhibition...
Schwartz Gallery returns with the second instalment of Flux – transgressions in time and place, its very successful opening show, in a very exciting and larger space directly next to the space where the first show was held. The space for the first show has since been partitioned into live-work studios.
Shift - reflections in time and place - uses this migration and reconstitution of spatial relationships to extend the ideas worked through in the first show. Imminent change and endings are supplanted with reflections,echoes and new beginnings. Physical and imagined places, temporal divisions, traces and memories are again traversed and interpreted through contemporary fine art practice. This second instalment brings together five artists from the first show with six new artists creating a further layer and dialogue between what has already taken place and what is now being created.
Artists: Simon Atkinson, Gabriel Birch, Panayiotis Delilabros, Ismail Erbil, Sumer Erek, Kit Merritt, Patrick Michalopoulos, Samantha Mogelonsky, Paula Naughton and Mary Yacoob.
'Art SPY' brings you a selection of various Artists and Galleries that we find simply delightful!
