 Jane South: Untitled (Yellow and Grey Construction), 2004 Constructed Worlds Hillary Bleecker, Jacob Melchi, Jane South, Will Yackulic "Constructed Worlds" is an exhibition of works on paper by four emerging artists based in the US. The exhibition takes as its theme the meeting point of personal imagination or narrative fiction and formal, architectural or textual construction. At times, drawings can feel like particularly privileged forms of an artist's production, occupying that intimate space between an idea and its manifestation. Sometimes they exploit that ambiguity to create the illusion of insight; they hint at a private world and so make us believe that we know what was really in the artists' mind. Will Yackulic's world is perhaps the most difficult to place. It seems very much a product of its moment. Texts, buildings and landscapes are built out of tiny units; three dimensional building bricks which seem the constituents of a digital rather than physical architecture. It's almost if the blueprint of some fantastical city has become infected by the program for a lo-tec computer game, producing structures that assemble for an instant to form words or buildings, only to dissolve into entropy a moment later. Jane South's constructions share the same fascination with the possibility of drawing in three dimensions. South uses models of architectural or mechanical elements cut from card to make assemblages that grow out from the wall. While their first point of reference might be the constructions of Tatlin or Gabo, their hand-cut aesthetic shifts their field of meaning towards a fragile and playful imaginary landscape. Hillary Bleecker's new works combine text, abstraction and the penetrable nature of paper. Word-strings, produced through stream of consciousness contemplation, are cut out of paper, and spin off into a perspectival illusion. Here too, texts form landscapes, alongside ambiguous repeating organic patterns. Of the four artists, Jacob Melchi's work manifests the clearest co-existence of narrative and image, of imagined and constructed worlds. In the series of small drawings "Decisions" (2005), narrative episodes that read like diary entries are juxtaposed in an unlikely partnership with formalist experiments, both described and put into practice. Exhibition: March 18 - April 23 2005 Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 12 - 5pm f a projects 1-2 Bear Gardens GB-London SE1 9ED Telephone +44 020.7928 3228 Fax +44 020.7928 5123 Email info@faprojects.com www.faprojects.com |
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