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Reuben Looyenga's premier show at Sartorial
Contemporary Art, IL QUOTIDIANO ALTERATO, “The everyday altered” is an
exhibition relating to the details that make up the moments of a day. His work
assumes the connection between artistic gesture and everyday life. Working
outside the studio, the materials used in Reuben's work are based within the
everyday.
The focus of his work is to find the codes and pattern
within the gesture and moment; how the action affects the result. Taking the
banal gesture of crumpling paper and magnifying its effect by tracing the
creases made, Reuben meticulously outlines the unique chaotic design, generating
complex forms and patterns from simple
specifications.
The work displays the pattern of form, line and
composition of everyday action, the generative design of the gesture. In
addition to the drawing, Untitled, (47) Sartorial Gallery will be
hosting Reuben's installation of e,s,m,w,q: The London Evening Standard,
Friday, September 3, 2010. This installation marks the day in which the
gallery space was granted for the
show.
His work with the Evening Standard is effectively an act
of reflection on the unique qualities of daily minutiae and asserts a
re-dispersal of information that had been read by the masses. The blocking out
of information and removal of a single letter suggests a coding of language and
the way information is read, the imagery of the work, a constellation of code
unique to the date of that issue of
newspaper.
Reuben Looyenga is a recent MFA graduate from Central St
Martins and a new addition to the represented artists of Sartorial Gallery. Born
in Canada, his practice has been based throughout, as well as in, London and his
work is sold
internationally.
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2009
Sartorial Contemporary Art
