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Becky Beasley BECKY BEASLEY FRANCESCA MININI VIA MASSIMIANO, 25 20134 MILANO T +39 02 26924671 [email protected] WWW.FRANCESCAMININI.IT BECKY BEASLEY b. Portsmouth, United Kingdom 1975 Lives and works in St. Leonards on Sea (UK) Becky Beasley (b.1975, UK) graduated from Goldsmiths College, London in 1999 and from The Royal College of Art in 2002, lives and works in St. Leonards on sea. Forthcoming exhibitions include Art Now at Tate Britain, Spike Island, Bristol and a solo exhibition at Laura Bartlett Gallery, London. Beasley has recently curated the group exhibition Voyage around my room at Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin. Recent exhibitions include, 8TH MAY 1904 at Stanley Picker Gallery, London, P.A.N.O.R.A.M.A at Office Baroque, Antwerp and 13 Pieces17 Feet at Serpentine Pavillion Live Event. Among her most important group exhibitions: Trasparent Things, CCA Goldsmiths, London (2020), La carte d’après nature NMNM, Villa Paloma, Monaco (2010), The Malady of Writing, MACBA Barcelona, (2009), FANTASMATA, Arge Kunst, Bozen (2008), and Word Event, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2008). Gallery exhibitions BECKY BEASLEY Late Winter Light Opening 23 January 2018 Until 10 March 2018 Late Winter Light is an exhibition of works which This work, The Bedstead, shows the hotel room The show embraces all the media used by the reveals Beasley’s ongoing exploration of where Ravilious found himself confined by bad artist – photography, sculpture, and, most emotion and ambiguity in relation to everyday weather when he came to Le Havre in the spring recently, video– and touches on many of the life and the human condition. The sense of of 1939, intending to paint en plein air: a most characteristic aspects of her work, starting precariousness that has always formed the basis modest room, mostly occupied by a metal bed. with the long-distance dialogue that Beasley of Beasley’s poetics has not disappeared, but is Beasley chose the watercolor (which occupied a carries on with artists from the past– here, the now accompanied by a form of serene central position in the show) as the key note for English war artist Eric Ravilious, and the writer acceptance. Color, for years set aside in favor of a delicate symphony of works that touched on Bernard Malamud, whose story Spring Rain was the black and white of silver gelatin many themes (love and grief, domestic interiors, the inspiration behind A Gentle Man. photographs, has become an almost constant the garden), linking the story of Ravilious to the In a passage which Beasley herself cites, presence. The colors are for the most part story of a personal friend who had suffered a Malamud writes that the point of a short story is softened, cast in a pale light: the light of late loss. “to say everything that must be said and to say winter, as the title suggests. But it is a light that it quickly, fleetingly, as though two people had heralds the more intense and warmer light of Another element that has come to the fore of met for a moment in a restaurant, or a railroad the spring. Beasley’s work in her most recent shows is station, and one had time only to tell the other autobiography; and more specifically—since the they are both human, and, here, this story It features works from the first phase of her artist’s life has always been present in her proves it.” This may be a writer’s (marvelous) career– including a series of early, previously works—a frank new approach to private definition of a literary form, but it also perfectly unseen polaroids– alongside a selection of matters such as love and motherhood. In one of describes the spirit of Beasley’s work in recent recent works from two exhibitions from 2017 - her most forthright works in this sense is the set years. In the end, inside the sophisticated web Ous, and A Gentle Man, which was described by of posters Foresight I-VI (2015): private life and of citation and reference, what is expressed is Roberta Smith in the New York Times as professional life run parallel to each other, the pressing need to say is one thing, always the “impeccable”. Presented for the first time reflect each other, intertwine. same: that both artist and viewer are human. outside of the UK is the room installation, The And, here, this exhibition—Late Winter Light— Seat Cushion (A Mourning Joke), 2017. This is Beasley’s quiet but firm response to a proves it. widespread (typically male) attitude that tries to The exhibition titled Ous (Towner Art Gallery, separate the two spheres, or even present them Eastbourne, UK, 2017) was inspired by a late as conflicting. watercolor by Eric Ravilious, a British painter, designer and illustrator who died in the Second World War in 1942, at the age of 39. Simone Menegoi Late Winter Light è una mostra in cui Becky L’opera, intitolata The Bedstead, raffigura la Late Winter Light abbraccia tutti i media Beasley indaga i temi dell’emozione e stanza d’hotel in cui Ravilious, recatosi a Le utilizzati dall'artista (fotografia, scultura e, dell’ambiguità in relazione alla vita Havre nella primavera del 1939 per dipingere ultimo arrivato, il video) e tocca molti degli quotidiana e alla condizione umana. Il senso di en plein air, si trovò confinato dal maltempo: aspetti caratteristici della sua opera, a precarietà che ha sempre costituito il fondo una stanza dimessa, occupata per buona parte cominciare dal dialogo a distanza che Beasley della sua poetica non è venuto meno, ma ora è da un letto in metallo. Beasley aveva scelto stabilisce con intellettuali del passato, in questo accompagnato da una forma di serena l’acquerello (a cui aveva assegnato un posto caso l’artista inglese Eric Ravilious e lo scrittore accettazione. Il colore, per anni accantonato a centrale nella mostra) per costruire intorno ad Bernard Malamud, il cui racconto Spring Rain ha favore del bianco e nero delle stampe ai sali esso una delicata partitura di opere che toccava ispirato A Gentle Man. In un passaggio citato da d’argento, è diventato una presenza quasi numerosi temi (l’amore e il lutto, gli interni Beasley, Malamud dichiara che il punto costante. Sono colori per lo più smorzati, adatti domestici, il giardino) e nella quale la biografia essenziale di un racconto breve è “dire quello a una luce pallida; una “luce di tardo inverno”, di Ravilious veniva accostata a quella di un che bisogna dire e dirlo in fretta, al volo, come come recita il titolo. Ma è una luce che annuncia amico di Beasley colpito da un lutto. se due si fossero incontrati per un istante in un già quella, più intensa e calda, della primavera. ristorante o in una stazione ferroviaria e uno Un altro elemento che è venuto alla ribalta nel avesse solo il tempo di dire all’altro che La mostra include opere legate alla prima fase lavoro di Beasley nelle ultime mostre è la entrambi sono umani ed ecco, questa storia lo della sua carriera (fra cui una serie di polaroid componente autobiografica; prova”. È la definizione (splendida) che uno inedite) accanto a una più esattamente - dato che in fondo scrittore ha dato di una forma letteraria, ma si selezione di lavori recenti provenienti dalle l’autobiografia dell’artista è sempre stata presta molto bene a descrivere lo spirito del mostre, entrambe del 2017, Ous e A Gentle presente nei suoi lavori – una franchezza inedita lavoro di Beasley degli ultimi anni. In fondo, al di Man, salutata da Roberta Smith sul New York su materie intime come l’amore e la maternità. là della sofisticata trama di citazioni e Times come “impeccabile”. Presentata per la Uno dei lavori più espliciti, in questo senso, è il riferimenti, quello che gli preme dire è una cosa prima volta fuori dal Regno Unito è set di poster Foresight I-VI (2015): vita privata e sola, sempre la stessa: che entrambi - l’installazione ambientale The Seat Cushion (A vita professionale procedono di pari passo, si l’artista e lo spettatore - sono umani. Ed ecco, Mourning Joke), 2017. rispecchiano, si intrecciano. questa mostra, Late Winter Light, lo prova. La mostra Ous (Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, E’ la risposta di Beasley, sommessa ma ferma, a UK, 2017) era ispirata a un tardo acquerello di una mentalità diffusa (e tipicamente maschile) Eric Ravilious, un che pretende di separare le due dimensioni, se pittore, designer e illustratore inglese che morì non addirittura di contrapporle. durante la Seconda guerra mondiale nel 1942, a 39 anni. Simone Menegoi Late Winter Light, 2018 Installation view at Francesca Minini, Milan Late Winter Light, 2018 Installation view at Francesca Minini, Milan Late Winter Light, 2018 Installation view at Francesca Minini, Milan Late Winter Light, 2018 Installation view at Francesca Minini, Milan Late Winter Light, 2018 Installation view at Francesca Minini, Milan BECKY BEASLEY Fall Opening 16 September 2014 Until 15 November 2014 September marks the beginning of Autumn, or Slightly out of view, in the office, and mirroring Fall, as it is more commonly known in the united Fall, Stand, albeit darkly, Floating Shelf States. Following her recent explorations of Instructions (from behind) - a highly detailed Spring, Beasley turns here to our ‘second 200% enlargement of what was a cheap A5 spring’, to explore the Autumnal moment as a instructions leaflet- has been printed in reverse. sculptural proposition. Here, however, the Positioning the viewer inside the wall, so to physical and temporal fall is a suspended speak, the reversal alludes to the darker moment, photographic in its interruption of interiors of sealed nuts and other rooms.
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