Invisible Cities - Jerwood Space
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
AN EXHIBITION entitled Invisible Cities will be on display at the Jerwood Space from January 21 to February 22, 2009.
Curated by artists Katie Pratt and Roger Kelly, it will feature works by nine established artists who have a previous relationship with Jerwood. This will, however, be the first time their works are shown together at Jerwood Space.
The artists are Basil Beattie, Tom Chamberlain, Prunella Clough, Katy Dove, Vincent Hawkins, Sarah Morris, Carol Rhodes, Thomas Scheibitz and Daniel Sturgis.
Invisible Cities is the second exhibition in a series of conversations across the Jerwood Visual Arts series – a series that encompasses sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, applied arts, and moving image in a regular series of awards, prizes, and exhibitions.
The metaphorical understanding of space that the artists give themselves to make the paintings is a reference to the book Invisible Cities and is used as an allegory of that process.
Curators Katie Pratt and Roger Kelly commented: “We wanted to approach this curatorial opportunity as painters, and to bring together works that visually engage us as a juxtaposition. We struck upon the idea of conceptually focusing the exhibition around Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities because it addresses the dilemmas of visual invention and illusion. Rather than illustrate the book, the painters in this exhibition have been selected for their various diverse strategies of stating the imaginary in terms of location. The exhibition highlights crossover in our otherwise diverse studio practices.”
Admission: Free.
Times: Monday to Friday – 10am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday – 10am to 3pm.
Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN.
Tel: 020 7654 0171