Liadin Cooke New Work at RAUMX Preview Thursday 27.04.2017

Liadin Cooke,
Untitled 3, 2017
Watercolour on Paper

Liadin Cooke’s new work comes out of her enduring interest in language and materiality. Alongside this is her current inquiry into tools, not merely as articles of utility but as implements that serve the human need to alter, adapt, create and destroy. Tools are both contrived and used for extending the force of man onto something, and the resulting marks of action that they can leave behind imply a residue of possession.

For most people the result of an action is what is important. However, Cooke’s work is about constructing something that articulates the indication of a mark. In so doing, the importance of the action becomes disrupted, its intended outcome secondary, and its suggested implementation forces one into positing the question, ‘What made that mark and why?’.

Liadin Cooke Untitled 1, 2017

Liadin Cooke
Untitled 2, 2017

Irish born artist Liadin Cooke has lived in the UK since 1993. Shortlisted for the Northern Art prize in 2012, recent solo exhibitions include Nostos at noshowspace London [2014]and Holden at Huddersfield Art Gallery and at the Artists house, Roche court, Wiltshire [2010]. Other shows include Overlay: Sculpture & Drawing, Yorkshire Sculpture Park [2006], Ballroom (ornament), Henry Moore Institute, Leeds [2003]. Her work has been shown extensively in Europe and the USA. Cooke’s work is in public and private collections including: Dublin Corporation, Camden Council and the Henry Moore Institute.

Annebarbe Kau and Vincent Hawkins – Recent Works

With it’s last show for 2016 RAUMX is presenting two artists who are working with multi media.

German artist Annebarbe Kau constructs with wire, textile and string her drawings. For RAUMX she will also prepare a new sound installation. Kau has shown extensively in Germany and abroad.

British artist Vincent Hawkins is showing recent paintings and card board constructions. He lives in London and makes prints, paintings on canvas paper and card. He has shown extensively in Britain and abroad including solo shows in Chicago and Paris in recent years.

Vincent Hawkins

Vincent Hawkins 2016

Rarely is there a clear idea worked out in advance. I decide on materials and take it from there. I work in a way that is improvisational through making, which I don’t see as an impoverishment of any kind. Beginning with a mark or a form and proceed by responding to what is there before me. It is building in order to excavate. I think a lot of abstract artists work in this way because painting is composed of many different trajectories in collision and to try and identify origins and sources quickly leads to a sense of being tied up in knots. I like art that doesn’t try to necessarily look like anything. It doesn’t try to define meaning .

“Meaning is something only for an individual, it has a home only in one person. The verb “to mean” implies something exists to be taken or learned from something else; and since subjects mean different things to every individual, meaning is purely subjective. Thus it is ‘subjective’ or should be understood to have an ‘anti-system’ or ‘anti-answer’ sensibility” Kierkegaard .

Vincent Hawkins 2016

Vincent Hawkins, work on paper, 2016

Annebarbe Kau

Annebarbe Kau

Along the line of

The General

In everyday life, lines supposedly give us “safety” and “orientation”, indicate or show us a direction, create connections and provide a basis– at least, we assume this to be so… And yes, as a matter of fact, in notebooks or on graph paper, the lines are already there, and our (western) culture then prescribes the direction (from top left to lower right). Even where there are no linear guidelines, the white, seemingly

bare, paper has been invisibly pre-formatted. This also applies to lines that flow together to form letters. – Perhaps it takes art, or more precisely, drawing to show us what possibilities of space are left at all.

The Haptic

The fall of the lines, their whirling, and their floating in a space they visually evoke themselves, their condensing, the dissolution of the surface, the highlighting the structure of the paper by the way the line has been laid out, the detachment from the paper, the flatness of what is actually a three-dimensional thread, cable or string, the lines seizing the space – all of this (and much more) are possible visual functions of the line in the work of Annebarbe Kau. For all of this, we still have not addressed the medium that provides such experience. However, the

descriptions already indicate we are scarcely referring to classically framed drawings here, (their mats placing them at a distance). Rather, it is about a completely haptic appearance of the line, articulated with the pages and in the materiality.

Stefan Gronert

Alles verkehrt

A artist portrait by Sabine Elsa Mueller in German only

Annebarbe Kau

Ian Kane and Eric Cruikshank – September 2016

Ian Kane

Ian Kane is a spatial artist working from his studio in Dalcross, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. He has exhibited nationally and internationally since studying Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art and completing a post-graduate degree in the 1970s. A Scottish Young Contemporaries Prize-winner in 1984, his works have been shown in the UK, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Norway, Canada and Japan.

Ian Kane, Seeing is believing

Ian Kane Studio

‘Curiosity and the spirit of enquiry into what exists is always the starting point for the work. This preoccupation with reflecting the truth of the world and our place in it is the work of the artist. The work changes as we ourselves change. The artist strives to find ways to produce the works that become signifiers of our time. The making of every piece is a re-learning; the bringing together of the conscious and the unconscious. Memory does not help here as the presentness of the work generates its own problems to be resolved’

https://spark.adobe.com/page/wcrwajr059abC/

Eric Cruikshank

As to the situation of the colours, the purest and strongest must be placed in front of the piece, and the colouring varied according to subject, time and place. If the subject be grave, melancholy or terrible, the general tint of the colouring must incline to brown or black, or red and gloomy; but it must be gay and pleasant in subjects of joy or triumph.

Encyclopedia Britannica or A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, edited by William Smellie, Edinburgh 1771

Eric Cruikshank Number 9 – Deep-Scarlet-Red-Pomplean-Red; 2016 Coloured Pencil on Paper, 19 cm x 28cm

The Scottish artist Eric Cruikshank is a modern painter. Born in a country and into a culture with a strong narrative tradition, his work departs from customary figuration, yet revels in the craft and artisanship of his chosen medium. Instead of portraying famous men, it analyses the qualities of colour and light. Instead of imitating landscapes, it explores notions of painterly space. And instead of illustrating stories, it investigates the process of painting itself. More than anything, this approach relies on the individual viewer. Our perceptions of colour, light and space are not only dependent on the painting – they are just as much dependent on the conditions in which we perceive it. Changes in lighting, spatial arrangement, distance to the object, subjective mood of the beholder and even the time spent with the artwork, become constituting factors in understanding it. Instead of a mere consumer of a pre-packaged story, the beholder becomes participant observer.

Eric Cruikshank, Number 3; Light-Yellow-Glaze-Warm-Grey-II; 2016, Coloured Pencil on Paper; 19cm 28 cm.

CONTINUUM – Eric Cruikshank & Ian Kane- September 2016

Announcing the upcoming show with painter Eric Cruikshank and sculptor Ian Kane.

16.09 – 24.09.2016 Preview Thursday 15.09.2016 from 6 pm Opening times Saturdays 2 – 6 pm Mo – Fri. by appointment T- 0207 2676267

Eric Cruikshank, Untitled, 2016

Both artists are based in Scotland and have previously exhibited together. In ‘Continuum’ we will see new works amongst other aspects shaped by the Scottish landscape and light.

Ian Kane, Seeing is believing

Ian Kane

http://www.iankaneartist.com

The artist is a collector; fragments of seeing, ideas, observations, experience, accumulated knowledge eventually come together to form a visual reality.

The making of every piece is a re-learning, the bringing together of the conscious and the unconscious. Memory does not help here as the present (ness) of the work generates its own immediate problems to be resolved.

Ian Kane ,”work-will-set-you-free” , 2016

Curiosity and the spirit of enquiry into what exists is always the starting point of my work. This preoccupation with reflecting the truth of the world and our place in it is the work of the artist. The work changes as we ourselves change. The artist strives to find ways to produce works that become signifiers of our time. For me this process is constant research, the outcome becomes the work.

CONTINUUM RAUMX

My work tends to be contemplative in nature as a result of living in the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. I feel that this influence is in the mix giving the work a poetic quality.

Ian Kane, Complete,2016

‘Complete’

The flat floor work started as a piece of plywood shuttering, which I found as flotsam on the banks of the Moray Firth. The white part, made from epoxy, exactly completes the work in every detail while still allowing difference. The work ever so slightly hovers above the floor.

‘Above and Below’

This piece is carved from a piece of cherry wood and is very precarious given the weight of the wood on top.

‘Work Will Set You Free’

The last floor work adds a note of humour to the show being a truly ridiculous object. The wheels are made of sandstone and the natural form that holds them in place is a piece of sycamore encased with resin. Although sycamore trees are seen often as weeds harp makers prize the wood.

‘Seeing is Believing’

The ‘Seeing is Believing’ piece has at its core a knowingness and an unknowingness, we know what the red covers but we also do not know. We see but we do not allow ourselves to believe.

Eric Cruikshank

http://www.ericcruikshank.com/

Eric Cruikshank, Untitled, 2016 Oil on two Boards, 91.5 cm x 156 cm ( with split)

Eric Cruikshank, Untitled, 2016

Taking landscape as an initial starting point, my paintings are not about literal presentation; instead the focus is on the emotive qualities of place. Using an objective palette tied to the Scottish landscape, colour acts as a vehicle to reveal the picture planes underlying points of reference. With the structure, design, and colour harmony being grounded in the everyday, the viewer is encouraged to readdress notions of their surroundings, where the familiar is opened up and made full of possibility.

With the works coming out of the territory of traditional art and values, through process and presentation, a dialogue opens up between the past and present, the historical and the contemporary. Despite an allusion to the social, spiritual and material contexts within the field of my art, the principal criteria always come back to the base construct elements. Shape, colour, and surface build the foundational support and elevate the works concepts, allowing the viewer to uncover layers of potential meaning as each element is considered. In the absence of imagery or narrative, the panels are left open to interpretation, as an almost blank plane to reflect the viewers own emotions and ideas.

By applying the paint in thinly layered colour bands, and utilising a subtraction technique, the surface is worked until a balance is reached. The delicate forms that remain give the effect of a monochromatic finish when first viewed. Through the resulting veil of paint, shimmering traces of tone flicker on the edge of focus, where the surface holds the gentlest luminosity and modulating volume. The works are completed with a meticulous level of control, creating a plane that bears no brush marks, removing evidence of the hand of the artist and any imprint of technique. With this removal, the colour field comes under closer scrutiny – on approaching the work, colour pulses in constantly shifting patterns, on withdrawing, these patterns blend, bleed and fuse into a vibrant continuous field, inviting a highly tuned visual attentiveness. The refined shade and contour lead the eye around the piece, gently engaging the viewer in the act of seeing, where their relationship with the work is one of continual change, as the ethereal surface vibrates with an inner light and rhythm that appears to expand outwards beyond the border, activating the space around and between the pieces

Peter Abrahams – Martin Streit, paintings and photography

Installation views RAUMX London 8.07 – 16.07.2016

opening times Saturday 2 – 6pm

and by appointment

raumx@mgeccelli1.plus.com

Preview – Thursday 7.07.2016

from 6 pm

Martin Streit and Peter Abrahams, installation, Raum X London, July 2016

Martin Streit and Peter Abrahams – Photographs and Paintings ; Preview Thursday 07.07.2016

Martin Streit (Cologne) and Peter Abrahams (London) are both visual based artists. Both have worked extensively in the fields of painting, photography and drawing.

On the paintings of Martin Streit, the motif present in his images is relatively unspectacular. The arsenal of objects upon which Streit plays out his artistic ambitions consists of balls, bowls, figures and architecture. Similarly to Streit, Abrahams has been involved in a photographic scrutiny of common objects and substances for almost ten years. The materials in question have been acquired in charity shops and pound stores, found at the side of the road and stumbled upon in common areas of studio buildings.

There is a dialogue between looking, performing and recording in both artists work. While Streit both in his paintings and photographs allows colour and light to transform bodies and objects. Especially in his Camera Obscura photographs bodies and objects change their appearance and solid structures are transformed into biomorphic phenomena. Abrahams’ still-life genre is peculiar in that the artist can move the objects around and so manipulate the subject, as well as alter the composition through changing the viewpoint. This is a meditative procedure and akin to the creative process itself – liable to overwork, self-consciousness, sketchiness or a rare, unpredictable profundity.

At the same time, Martin’s dispute between painting and photography brings back memories of reality and simultaneously evades any kind of realistic representation. His paintings offer their own truth; a truth that reinvents itself each instance of viewing.

www.peterabrahams.eu
www.martinstreit.net

Peter Abrahams

Martin Streit

In and Out – spatial correspondence – Preview Thursday 19.05.2016 from 6 pm

Such places do not exist and , because they do not exist,

space is turned in to a question,

ceases to be a certainty, ceases to be integrated

and ceases to be appropriated.

Space is doubt: I have constantly to mark it, to

define it. It’s never mine, never given to me,

I have to conquer it.

Georges Perec.

In and Out – spatial correspondence

The flyer published in connection with the upcoming group show.

In and Out – spatial correspondence – RAUMX forthcoming group show on lens based art May 2016

The exhibition In and Out – spatial correspondences- is primarily presenting photographic positions dealing with the question of the factual and the actual.

To what extent can a photograph embody characteristics of sculpture or painting?When does the photograph become the medium for painterly or sculptural strategies and vice versa? This theme is illuminated from different angles by using some real objects and sculptures which are placed between surface and space .

Philipp Dorl ,Slit-back

Martina Geccelli,
Stone 2. 2015

Darren Harvey -Regan,
The Erratics 10

Tamara Lorenz,
Rot1

Michael Moerk,
White

David Penny,
Do you think it will be like this forever, 2016

Nancy Murphy Spicer – more than momentary: ENJOY

Installation shots from Preview Thursday 5.11.2015: Hanging Drawing (20 successive drawings, unique and unrehearsed), 2015, lead, rubber, acrylic, hardware, dimensions variable

More than momentary: ENJOY, 2015 Installation view with 21 drawings. (gesso, gouache and acrylic with collage on rice paper)

more than momentary: ENJOY alters the typical path of artwork from studio to gallery to collector by offering voluntary participants the opportunity to borrow and spend extended time with the work BEFORE the exhibition. In the spirit of Lewis Hyde’s ideas about art as a gift, I offer this time with the work as a gift, as a way of opening up the possibilities for relating to the work in a way that is more than momentary. The choice of the wordENJOY in the title refers to the secondary meaning of the word: “to possess or benefit from.”

Nancy Murphy Spicer, 2015

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Disrupted Drawing Large, 2015, gesso, gouache and acrylic with collage on rice paper,

Disrupted Drawing, 2015

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Hanging Drawing, participatory performance, 2015

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