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Press Release Parafin is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the important British artist Tim Head. ‘Fictions’ showcases a major new series — of large-scale unique digital prints on acrylic and works on paper. Tim Head Since the 1990s Head has developed an innovative body of work Fictions incorporating projections, LCD displays and inkjet prints, focused on an exploration of digital space. Head’s current works extend his — project to articulate ‘the digital medium’s elusive material substance’. 28 November 2014 – The recent work fabricates a series of fictitious spaces within the 24 January 2015 weightless abstraction of the digital – stacked circles woven together — to form a multi-layered surface without depth. The works that these Private view: processes produce are surprisingly beautiful, at once visually seductive and conceptually rigorous. Moreover, they represent a continuation 27 November, 6–8pm of concerns that have preoccupied Head since his earliest exhibitions, an investigation of reality and perception. As Michael Bracewell recently wrote, ‘The art of Tim Head has long made articulate the curious yet forcefully real schisms which exist between the techno- materiality of the modern world and our experience of its constitution’.
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Tim Head studied with Richard Hamilton and Ian Stephenson at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1965-69 and then with Barry Flanagan at St Martin’s in London from 1969-70. In 1968 he spent several months in New York working as assistant to Claes Oldenburg and met leading figures in the Conceptual Art movement, including Robert Smithson, Sol Lewitt and Eva Hesse. In 1971 he worked as an assistant to Robert Morris. Tim Head, Fictions 3 (detail), 2013–14 Unique UV inkjet print on acrylic Head first came to prominence in the early 1970s with a series of 250 × 125 cm ground-breaking installations at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1972), the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1974) and participation in important group shows including the 8th Paris Biennale, Musee D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1973), Arte Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan (1976) and Documenta 6, Kassel (1977). Head represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1980.
Recent solo exhibitions include Huddersfield Art Gallery (2009), Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2010) and Modern Art Oxford (2013). Recent important group exhibitions include The Indiscipline of For further details and images Painting, Tate St Ives, (2011), Signs of a Struggle: Photography in please contact: the Wake of Post Modernism, V&A, London (2011), the Lyon Biennale — (2003) and Days Like These, Tate Britain, London (2003). Head’s Caroline Widmer work is in important international collections including Tate, London, Rhiannon Pickles PR Arts Council Collection, London, British Museum, London and the +44 (0)7908 848 075 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York. Since 1971 Head has been [email protected] an influential teacher at both Goldsmiths and the Slade in London.
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Editor’s Notes Parafin — — Parafin was launched in September 2014 by former Haunch of Venison London directors Ben Tufnell and Matt Watkins. They are joined by the founder of London gallery Master Piper, Nicholas Rhodes.
Located at 18 Woodstock Street, just off New Bond Street, Parafin represents a broad selection of contemporary artists from emerging names to established international figures.
Gallery artists — Tim Head Nancy Holt Hynek Martinec Enrique Martínez Celaya Justin Mortimer Katie Paterson Hiraki Sawa Hugo Wilson Uwe Wittwer
Woodstock Street, Mayfair — Woodstock Street is located on the northern edge of Mayfair, Lon- don, between New Bond Street (via Blenheim Street) and Oxford Street. Parafin is situated near to the historic tiled Art Deco façade of auction house Bonhams.
Opening Hours — Tuesday–Friday, 10–6 Saturday, 10–5 Or by appointment
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