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October 19, 2006- November 22, 2006
Reception: October 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Chris Gilmour
Freight + Volume
542 W 24th St
Chris Gilmour’s meticulously crafted sculptural works exist between fiction and reality. By creating life size highly detailed recreations of commonplace items such as a typewriter, bicycle, or guitar, Gilmour’s pieces call upon memories and emotions connected to our experience of these ordinary objects. With these items, chosen for their evocative and conceptual power, Gilmour challenges the audience to remain an observer, when one’s natural instinct is to interact. The typewriter beckons to be put to use, the bicycle to be ridden, and guitar to be played.
By working with recycled, familiar items, such as cardboard and cigarette packets, Gilmour concentrates on the medium in its natural state, often leaving on the material’s original printing, tape, labels, etc. capturing an essence of purity within the structures that he creates. By using regular material, which everybody knows and understands, Gilmour builds on the viewer’s pre-existing associations to create a language, which is comprehended by many.
For Chris Gilmour’s first New York solo exhibition Pussy Galore, Freight + Volume will exhibit a life size Aston Martin DB8, rendered in cardboard to such precision that the even the most insignificant details of the engine are visible. The sculptural model begs for a reaction or interaction, coaxing the audience to take a spin, a la James Bond’s Pussy Galore. The automobile is presented, stripped of material constraints, as Gilmour’s latest accomplishment, steering wheel, gears, and tire spokes all in tow. Gilmour also presents, as part of his newest body of work, a series of acoustic and electric guitars, and miniature churches modeled out of cigarette and condom boxes.
Chris Gilmour was born in Stockport, Great Britain and lives and works in Udine, Italy. He has had two solo exhibitions at Perugi Artecontemporanea, in Padova, Italy. This month, he won the prestigious Italian prize CAIRO. His work has been featured in Artnet Magazine, Flash Art International, and Marie Claire among others. A special 52 page catalogue will be printed for the exhibition.
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