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"It's Darkest Before Dawn: Patrick Cunningham, Gary Simmonds and Robert Wilson"
2003-01-24 until 2003-02-16
Hoxton Distillery
London, , UK United Kingdom

Hoxton Distillery presents It's Darkest Before Dawn, a exhibition featuring three painters, Patrick Cunningham, Gary Simmonds and Robert Wilson, who share an interest in retinal imagery, but also reflect on the history of modernist painting. It's Darkest Before Dawn has been organised by John Hanson and Richard Paul.

Patrick Cunningham's '101' features a grid of 101 small Ultramarine or Cobalt Blue paintings. To establish the position of each individual painting, the artist tossed a coin 101 times.

Result: 48 Cobalt Blue paintings (heads) and 53 Ultramarine Blue paintings (tails)

Continued to infinity this process would result in an equal number of each colour; a mathematical certainty that frames the work-a random sample.

Gary Simmonds uses an ornamental grid to create large vibrant paintings that appear, on first encounter, to be solely concerned with aspects of colour in a classic 50's way. Certainly, there is a parallel with the mass production hues of that period. Come closer and see that the charming wallpaper stars are made by smearing paint rather than by using a brush; the factory colours somehow tawdry and fatigued. The most recent pieces use a dark or back ground, forming a dense kaleidoscope - both claustrophobic and nostalgic.

Robert Wilson's paintings are derived from partially developed polaroids. They are intented to exact some physical/optical effort from the viewer; to be antagonistic, but ultimately rewarding. Images slowly reveal themselves, like exiting the cinema into bright daylight.

IMAGE:
Patrick Cunningham
100 Paintings


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