PLAYER PLAYER PLAYER
Matt Calderwood, Edward
Clive, Alan Currall, Matt Golden, Peter Liversidge, Lee Regan
Private view: Thursday 10 March, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Exhibition
continues: 11 March – 9 April 2011
In a month of
seasonal and economic gloom, Poppy Sebire’s latest show
offers a little light relief. Player Player Player brings together six
artists who use wit, slapstick, and a healthy sense of the absurd to come at the
world from a fresh and playful angle. Never earnest, but often surprisingly
incisive, theirs is work that’ll make you smile and make you think, and
leave the gallery feeling slightly better.
Matt
Golden’s works include a piece of paper stroked over several
months to make one corner rise in a curl, and white hairs plucked from his head
and formed into a spider’s web. In this show, he’s displaying an
upside-down postcard with a surprise in the sky.
Lee Regan’s Fail is a ladder mounted
horizontally at head height and attached to a motor so it swings continually in
a circular arc through the gallery space. You have been warned.
Matt Calderwood's Suspension, is an
unrehearsed, filmed experiment in which everyday objects are balanced in an
ever-more ludicrous and precarious arrangement, with the looming threat of
disaster making for an unexpectedly gripping watch.
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Alan Currall's video piece,
Lying about myself in order to appear more interesting is a shambling
and shambolically-filmed monologue by one of the artist’s many tragi-comic
alter egos.
Edward Clive’s
installation apes a traditional museum display, but one in which the works
exhibited are pages of a sculpture textbook on sculpture from which all the
sculptures have been digitally erased.
And Peter
Liversidge’s work is a series
of proposals for spectacular artistic projects, written up on an old manual
typewriter and hung on the gallery walls. Some of them even get carried out.
Notes for Editors:
Image caption: Matt
Calderwood, Still from 'Suspension', Video, 2009.
Address: All Hallows Hall, 6 Copperfield Street, London, SE1 0EP
Opening
hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10am- 6pm or by appointment
Contacts and
further information: +44(0)20 7928 3096 gallery@poppysebire.com
www.poppysebire.com