Britannia Preview PRESS RELEASE Please join us for a preview of our new space: Featuring: Edward Lipski, Keith Coventry, Keith Wilson, Richard Woods, Continues 22 June - 31 July 2005 Prior to an architectural intervention by Vito Acconci, we invite you to preview our new gallery space with an inaugural group show featuring work by Edward Lipski, Keith Coventry, Keith Wilson, Richard Woods, Adam Bricusse, Vito Acconci and Danish furniture designer Mathias Bengtsson. Situated just along from Gagosian gallery on Britannia Street, Kenny Schachter ROVE is an extensive, high-ceilinged, ground floor space that will play host to an ambitious and varied program of international artists, opening fully later this Summer. As an introduction to the new location we are pleased to announce a show that includes: Recent works by London-based artist Edward Lipski, who’s sculptures have been described as offering us a glimpse of ‘a hideous reflection of reality’. Lipski has exhibited his disquieting and often surreal sculptures widely, including a solo show at the Stedelijk Museum het Domain in 1999 and many international venues since. Keith Coventry’s large-scale wall hangings build on the references he first made to Raoul Dufy’s work in the monochromatic paintings of last years solo show at ROVE. In this series Coventry offers his own contemporary interpretation of the embroidered wall hangings Dufy rented out for private parties in Paris during the 1920’s. Keith Wilson’s sculptural assemblages, with their appropriation of familiar domestic and industrial objects are often laden with a subtle, personal humour. For this show Keith presents a selection of recent galvanised steel sculptures. His most recent solo show was at Milton Keynes Gallery in 2004. Richard Woods, responsible for the temporary facade in place during the opening of ROVE on Hoxton Square, introduces a series of floor standing plinth-like plywood sculptures. These are covered by a mixture of block printed and hand painted enamel surfaces illustrating an amalgamation of ideas from earlier projects. Vito Acconci, legendary artist-turned-architect, is represented by a selection of text photo works dating from the late 1960’s onwards, documenting psychological and physical interactions with both his body and environment. Acconci was also responsible for designing the interior of Kenny Schachter conTEMPorary gallery in New York. Adam Bricusse’s layered montages in paint (inspired by Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’) convey a sense of the raw and archetypal combinations that fill our sense of the modern existence. An experience that reflects the sins of modern culture, debauchery, sex and addiction - as well as innocence, simplicity and purity. Alongside these works we are pleased to present a retrospective collection of the acclaimed Danish furniture designer Mathias Bengtsson, who has been living and working in London since 1998. Bengtsson specialises principally in experimental chair design, with an approach that has a deliberate disregard of conventions and which puts both the form and function of the chair in question. Mathias Bengtsson’s designs have been represented in a number of key exhibitions including ‘The Adventures of Aluminium’ at The Design Museum in London, 2002 and ‘Great Brits’ at the Milan Furniture Fair, 2003. For press enquiries or further information please contact Simon Parris KENNY SCHACHTER ROVE 17 Britannia Street London WC1X 9JN UK Mathias Bengtsson is shown in association with Greenwich Village |
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