 "Inflatable Armchair", 2001 oil on canvas, 94 x 110cm Alexandra Baraitser Mobilia Alexandra Baraitser obsesses over chairs - especially design classics. Her starting point is photographs of pieces from Le Corbusier to Conran, cherry-picked from the glossies, books and catalogues, for their beauty and purity - and their timelessness. She reinterprets - or remakes - these through a process of drawing and painting and recontextualises them as uncompromising, and larger-than-life throne-like images. They are symmetrical, full-frontal, and highly sculptural, and repackaged, are like portraits. Born in 1971, Baraitser trained at Central St. Martins, Wimbledon and Chelsea colleges of art in London. She has exhibited in the UK, and was included in shows at The Barbican Gallery, London, The John Moores 19 at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Oriel Mostyn Open and the Kettles Yard Open. In 1998, she was a prize-winner at the NatWest Art Prize. She has exhibited in Europe, and in 1997 won the Abbey Scholarship at the British School in Rome. Ausstellungsdauer: 4.9. - 5.10.2002 Öffnungszeiten: Mo-Fr 10 am - 6 pm, Sa 11 am - 4 pm Hirschl Contemporary Art 5 Cork Street GB-London W1S 3LQ Telefon +44 (0)20 7495 2565 Mail hirschl@dircon.co.uk www.hirschlcontemporary.co.uk |
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