{"id":3157,"date":"2014-08-28T01:39:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T05:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2014-08-27T20:45:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T00:45:40","slug":"cutcopypaste-beers-contemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/cutcopypaste-beers-contemporary\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut\/Copy\/Paste at Beers Contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1 August-27 September 2014<\/p>\n

“Cut\/Copy\/Paste”:\u00a0Frank Hallam Day, Michael Mapes, and Brian Porray<\/p>\n

“Cut\/Copy\/Paste” presents three American artists who explore the boundaries of the contemporary collage and the re\u2010appropriation of images.Though each artist displays a distinct (yet related) body of work, the exhibition presents the artistic practice as limitless and endlessly reinterpretable; an interminable platform for the interrelating discourses and references of re\u2010imagined images in a contemporary context. The pastel\u2010colour smudged mark made of a fragment in time, the kaleidoscope of a repeated geometric motif, the snippets of photographs and locks of hair\u2013the reinvented; the cut, the copied, the pasted.<\/p>\n

Frank Day\u2019s photographic series, “Ship Hulls”, at first glance masquerades as renderings of Rothko\u2019s oil paintings-\u00adheavy in thick brush strokes and rich blocks of colour. While they were taken in the ebb and flow of the tides surrounding the working quays and isolated backwaters of Lagos, Nigeria and Douala, Cameroon, the photographer\u00a0cites the history of painting as a main source of inspiration, likening his works to painters Henri Rousseau and Jan Van Eyck among others. The traditional landscape is therefore transformed and reimagined here. Pasted in the form of digital close\u2010ups of ancient and abandoned hulls that breathe life into what are otherwise lonely graveyard African harbours.<\/p>\n

In contrast, New York artist Michael Mapes is technically a portraitist, though he rarely uses paint as his primary medium. Instead, the artist deconstructs then reconstructs some of the Dutch Masters’ most famous 17th century portraits, recreating the human visage by arranging and compartmentalizing fragments of a person\u2019s life; dissected photographs, locks of hair, handwriting samples, jewellery-\u00adinto highly detailed works of art. The specimen boxes he creates, exist in an uncanny area between photography and sculpture, functioning both as portraits within a rich historical canon, and as fascinating and painstakingly rendered scientific canvases.<\/p>\n

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Adding onto the colour sensation of the exhibition, Las Vegas\u2010born painter and collageist Brian Porray\u2019s compositions transform collage into a visual force field of energy. A seemingly chaotic miscellany\u00a0of patterns unfurls across the\u2013often unabashedly large\u2010scale\u2013canvas, rife with triangles, stripes, chequerboards and rainbow arches, painted and patched together, freewheeling in repeated anarchic and psychedelic motifs. Porray\u2019s choice of medium can be equally as sporadic as his practice, largely utilizing a combination of\u00a0coloured pencil, spray paint, ink and acrylic, on linen, canvas or paper.<\/p>\n

While each of the artists are acutely aware of their artistic predecessors, they exhibit a technical mastery in their practice that gives a fascinating new scope to the age\u2010old artistic process of the deconstruction and reconstruction of the image. While coloured triangular shapes are omnipresent on canvas, paper and linen, tiny photographic fragments are systematically arranged using paintings of the Dutch Masters, and ship hulls pose as traditional oil landscapes, the selected works offer a minefield of aesthetic historical references; reinstating art as endlessly re\u2010interpretable and constantly in flux.<\/p>\n

(text adapted from the gallery’s press materials)<\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Beers Contemporary<\/strong>
\n1 Baldwin Street
\nLondon EC1V 9NU United Kingdom
\n44 (20) 7502 9078<\/p>\n

Hours:<\/strong>
\nTuesday-Saturday, 11AM-6PM
\nand by appointment<\/p>\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0| FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

Image (top):<\/strong>
\nDutch Male Specimen: J<\/em>
\nby Michael Mapes
\n28″x24″x3.5″
\nphotographs, painted photographs, fabric samples, rope, sand, sea shells, coffee, tea, tea bags, tobacco, gunpowder, sugar, driftwood, hair, cast resin, clay, thread, insect pins, gelatin capsules, specimen bags, magnifying boxes
\n2014
\nCourtesy of Beers Contemporary, London<\/p>\n

Image (centre):<\/strong>
\n–+–H3AT D3V1L–+–<\/em>
\nby Brian Porray
\n60″x144″
\nsynthetic polymer, spray paint, paper on canvas
\n2012
\nCourtesy of Beers Contemporary, London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 August-27 September 2014 “Cut\/Copy\/Paste”:\u00a0Frank Hallam Day, Michael Mapes, and Brian Porray “Cut\/Copy\/Paste” presents three American artists who explore the boundaries of the contemporary collage and the re\u2010appropriation of images.Though each artist displays a distinct (yet related) body of work,…<\/p>\n

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