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Email PageUnwit
May 5, 2006- June 3, 2006
Angus Fairhurst
Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 10th Ave Angus Fairhurst Still (2005) |
Pushing his own appropriationist strategy a step further, Fairhurst has recently begun making the source material for these collages himself. For Unwit he staged his own fashion shoot which loosely replicates certain gestures found in perfume ads in two controlled interiors, one black, the other white, and an urban wasteland. All evidence of body was removed from the resulting ‘ads' which were then layered on top of each other. Fairhurst has encapsulated the resulting collages in bioresin, and they have bioresin frames modelled on those found in the London underground. As the resin “cures” it collapses slowly, although once it has set it is extremely durable—as hard as granite. The possibilities (aesthetic and otherwise) opened up by the contrast between the decaying and controlled spaces are repeated and echoed in the abstract forms created by the layering, as well as the shape of the collages themselves, which are in varying stages of collapse.
Mysterious Movement of the Wind III also addresses issues of (advertising) space: a jagged hole in a frame hung on the wall, it is based upon a smashed-up real estate sign. Freestanding sculptures include magazines with all the body and text removed and one constructed from exhibition invite cards which Fairhurst has defaced by cutting holes out of them. These gutted paper sculptures are placed on plinths cast from bioresin, which also partially sag.
Since first earning critical appraisal at the beginning of the 1990s, Fairhurst has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Europe and in the USA . His work was included in “Freeze” (1988); “Brilliant!”, Walker Art Center , Minneapolis (1995); “Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away”, Serpentine Gallery (1994); and “Apocalypse”, The Royal Academy, London (2000). In 2004 he participated in the three-person show, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”, with his contemporaries Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst, at Tate Britain .
This will be Fairhurst's first solo exhibition with Paul Kasmin Gallery Unwit will be open for viewing at 293 West 27 th Street , Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm. For further information or images, please contact the gallery, 212.563.4474
Art Reviews of Unwit
| New York Times May 26, 2006 | Grace Glueck | "Angus Fairhurst, a Y.B.A. (Young British Artist) and sometime fellow exhibitor with the Y.B.A.'s Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, shows complex collages made by cutting out the central texts and images from glossy ads, fashion-magazine layouts and other found sources, then layering the scissored sheets atop one another. (In some cases he has used material from his own fashion shoots.) Shreds and shards of colors and images meld together in the cutout spaces to produce discordant, semi-surreal effects meant to deprive the ads of their consumer come-on...." |
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