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Reality Check Press Release Galerie Rudolfinum 6. 3 Reality Check Press release Galerie Rudolfinum 6. 3. - 8. 6. 2003 Reality Check Recent Developments in British Photography and Video Roderick Buchanan k r buxey Phil Collins Alan Currall Graham Fagen, Ori Gersht Dryden Goodwin Luke Gottelier Nigel Shafran Lesley Shearer David Shrigley Keith Tyson Michelle Williams Saskia Olde Wolbers Shizuka Yokomizo Bettina von Zwehl Curated by Kate Bush and Brett Rogers An exhibition jointly organised by the British Council and The Photographer's Gallery, London Exhibition partners DATART Leica Gallery Prague One World 2003 Media partners MF DNES Fotograf Umělec Swift Holding a.s. euroAWK Reality Check Reality Check brings together Michelle Williams put themselves, sixteen of British art's rising rather than others, in the centre stars, in an exhibition which of the picture. Both perform presents the very latest scenarios to camera, which, developments in UK-based drawing on morbid or aggressive photography and video installation. eroticism, make for uneasy Each participating artist shares a viewing. Michelle Williams' Sunday belief in the camera's capacity to Afternoon II summons a disquieting transform real experience conjunction of death and bestial - whether through re-enactment and eroticism, while k r buxey's visual replay, or through close performed parodies of pornographic observation and obsessive situations are defiantly hardcore documentation - into the realm of and quite literally, in your face. the poetic. Reality Check is an exhibition inspired by real things Painting the everyday in the real world - by events, people, relationships, places, Photography might claim to be the things - while moving between Art of the Everyday, and it's differing levels of truth and unsurprising that British imagination, perception and photographers - from Fox Talbot to pretence. A 'reality check', that Richard Billingham - have rooted self-conscious moment of taking their work in the world stock, of gauging the actuality of immediately around them. Nigel something at an instant it Shafran takes some of the most threatens to dissolve into its quotidian subjects imaginable - opposite - hyper-reality, fantasy, charity shop interiors, impromptu fiction - stands as a metaphor for street markets, and the corner of the exhibition, and ultimately, his kitchen, with the washing-up for photography itself. done and drying after a meal - and crafts a series of exquisitely Dislocated subjects luminous still lifes which graft poetry onto the surfaces of the Traditional portraiture works to everyday. Ori Gersht brings a encourage a sense of intimacy or sense of Modernist painting to his empathy between subject and study of 1950s post-Blitz English viewer. For many of the artists in school buildings. His rigorously Reality Check, an intense composed panoramas chart a point transaction occurs between where ideal aestheticism collides photographer and subject, but one with the rough realities of which stresses instead a feeling British life. David Shrigley, of deliberate detachment or widely celebrated as a draftsman manipulation. In Shizuka and occasional sculptor is less Yokomizo's Strangers series, the known for his superb photographs. photographer never gets to meet These photographs document fugitive her subjects, while the subjects interventions made directly within can barely see the photographer the landscape. Shrigley's - who lurks behind her camera interventions mostly take the form outside their windows in the dark of drawn and written signs which - yet each is strongly aware of helpfully annotate bits of the the other's presence. Yokomizo's world most of us would walk past: portraits are filled with a sense a hole in the fence, a fallen of fear, curiosity, or tree, a forgotten Filofax. Dryden trepidation. She also contributes Goodwin also finds the subject of a stunning new video installation: his work in the world around him. a study of elderly people asleep, Inspired by the spaces of the city which takes us from high in the and people he chances upon within sky to the depths of the ocean. it, Goodwin orchestrates gorgeous Lesley Shearer makes dark, symphonies in video and sound, sinking, romantic portraits. She which examine the flux and captures people at the moment that anonymity of urban life. they slip from everyday awareness into a catatonic, dream state. Fabulous Realism Made monumental in scale, and bathed in a Caravaggiesque light, Luke Gottelier and Saskia Olde her portraits have a disturbing Wolbers create architectures of intensity. Conversely, Bettina the imagination, using real things von Zwehl's portraits are cool and to build spaces of fabulous classical. She subjects her invention. Luke Gottelier's lo-fi sitters to different types of photographs tread a daring line physiological manipulation - such between inchoate nothingness and as forcing them to vigorously eccentric imagination, as they exercise in a hot room - before conjure large vistas from recording their physiognomies in materials as unpromising as a minute detail. The compositions dollop of custard, a manky carpet are as beautiful as paintings; the and a piece of string. Saskia Olde approach as forensic as a Wolbers' narrative videos are scientist's. k r buxey and prompted by tales of real-life human drama, onto which she Artists' Biographies: Albert Museum and Victoria Miro embroiders fantastic, rambling Gallery stories, set against spectacular Roderick Buchanan revolving landscapes. Her stories (b. Glasgow, 1965) Reality Check is accompanied by an of individual calamity are won the Beck's Futures Prize, 2000 illustrated catalogue, featuring an parables about life in an k r buxey introductory essay on the increasingly technology-driven (b. Reading, 1967) has shown at exhibition by Kate Bush and world. Alan Currall is another Ibid Projects, London individual texts on the artists by teller of tall stories. His works Phil Collins Brett Rogers and Alex Farquharson are the video diaries of someone (b. Warrington, 1970) attempting to answer life's more was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn awkward existential questions. Foundation Art Award in 2001 and Exhibition curators Currall's self-effacing, faltering is currently on a PS1 scholarship delivery masks a wild imagination, in New York Kate Bush and quite possibly, a superhuman Alan Currall existence. (b. Stoke-on-Trent, 1964) Kate Bush has been Senior has had solo exhibitions at Stills Programmer at The Photographers' Politics personified Gallery, Edinburgh and the Gallery, London since 1998 where Australian Centre for Contemporary she produces a programme which Political and social complexities Art, Melbourne brings into dialogue diverse are addressed in Reality Check, Graham Fagen aspects of photographic practice. but not in the form of simple (b. Glasgow, 1966) Exhibitions by international realism. Phil Collins, for has had solo exhibitions at the artists such as Richard Wentworth, example, works against the grain Imperial War Museum, the Henry Jean-Luc Mylayne, Catherine Opie of social documentary photography Moore Institute and Matt's Gallery and Annelies Strba, are in order to question the truth of Ori Gersht complimented by historical its images. Collins has made work (b. Tel-Aviv, 1967) shows,and new projects by emerging in a Macedonian refugee camp, on is the subject of a forthcoming artists such as Piotr Uklanski, the streets of Belfast, and, most solo show at Art Now, Tate Britain Hellen van Meene, Shirana recently, in the city of Baghdad. Dryden Goodwin Shahbazi, Amy Adler and Malerie Here, he shows Becoming More Like (b. Bournemouth, 1971) Marder. In 2001 she curated The Us, a study of the lives of young recently exhibited at Art Now, Fantastic Recurrence of Certain Serbs in post-war Belgrade. Former Tate Britain Situations for Madrid's Canal official war artist to Kosovo, Luke Gottelier Isabel II, a group exhibition Graham Fagen's work also addresses (b. London, 1968) which introduced new artists such contemporary issues such as class has shown at the Window Gallery, as Shizuka Yokomizo, Sophy and conflict: he refracts these Prague, Entwistle Gallery and Rickett, Dryden Goodwin and Julie subjects through the prism of Bethnal Green Police Station Henry. She writes catalogue older forms, drawing on classical Saskia Olde Wolbers essays, most recently on the work theatre, the novel, and (b. Breda, 1971) of Liza May Post for the Dutch allegorical painting. Fagen has had solo exhibitions at Pavilion, 49th Venice Biennale, on presents his Weapons, and a new Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, Erwin Zwakman (Stedelijk van series of photographs entitled and forthcoming at Gallery Abbaye Museum, Eindhoven) and on Owners. Tydehall, Helsinki Keith Tyson (Kunsthalle Zurich). Nigel Shafran She is a regular contributor to Reality Checked (b. London, 1964) Artforum magazine. has had solo exhibitions at Taka The most purely documentary work Ishii Gallery, Tokyo and Fig-I, Brett Rogers in the exhibition - in the sense London that it exists simply to record an Lesley Shearer Brett Rogers is currently Deputy event in the real world - is (b. Glasgow, 1968) Director and Head of Exhibitions, supplied by the conceptual artist recently graduated from the Royal in the Visual Arts Department of Keith Tyson. And yet Tyson's College of Art The Briitsh Council London. She series of Expanded Repeaters could David Shrigley trained in art history (MA not look more dissimilar to (b. Macclesfield, 1968) Twentieth Century Art, Courtauld traditional photography. Each is has made solo shows at Camden
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