Make Your Own Kaleidoscope - Tricycle Gallery
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
MAKE Your Own Kaleidoscope, an exhibition exploring the illusion of rationality present in logical thought, will be on display in the Tricycle Gallery from February 16 to March 14, 2009.
The kaleidoscope at once offers a mathematically constructed and fictional view of the world, allowing the viewer to determine what they see for themselves. Using formal structure, the artists included in this show explore the ambiguity and irrationality inherent in such structure.
The artists are Gareth Bell-Jones, Kit Craig, Giuseppe Mistretta, Prem Sahib and Jack Strange.
Gareth Bell-Jones‘ main concerns are with the confusion and imposition of meaning. Inserting acrylic mirror into the gallery walls, his large intervention uses archetypal systems implying many potential references yet revealing none. Allowing only the appearance of understanding, Bell-Jones simultaneously suggests value and signifies nothing.
Kit Craig‘s intricate and esoteric drawings explore the myth of creativity. Questioning how an idea or thought can find a physical form, Craig utilises display structures evoking Minimal art on which to hang more personal visions. By expressing complex conceptual processes in systematised formal structure, the inadequacy of doing so is made explicit.
Giuseppe Mistretta constructs transient drawings with objects and participants, which he documents with dated mediums such as photo-booth and Polaroid photography. Mistretta’s practice is a catalyst for imagination and memory, becoming metaphors for utopian and egalitarian ideology.
Prem Sahib‘s work considers the way in which objects and images mediate the relationship between people. His interest in notions of encounter, presence and physicality are communicated through works that precariously flirt with the viewer, suggesting autonomy through anecdote and pastiche.
Jack Strange‘s humorous, clever and surprising work re-contextualises and re-imagines the functions of everyday objects and ideas. Creating unexpected relationships between commonplace materials, Strange provides a perspective on their uses that can open up new worlds of meaning.
Admission: Free.
Times: Monday to Saturday from 10am to 10pm, Sunday from 3pm to 9pm.
Tricycle Gallery, 269 Kilburn High Road, London, NW6 7JR