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February 2012
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Curator’s Egg Altera Pars February 2nd - March 3rd Opening:
February 2nd 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Anthony Reynolds Gallery60 Great Marlborough Street
London W1F 7BG United Kingdom |
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Chess Painting No. 10, Tom Hackney 2011 (selected by Ed Hubbard) |
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Director's Choice
Image: Tom Hackney, Chess Painting No. 16 (Duchamp vs. Menchik, Paris, 1929) 2011.
Director's Choice
Paul Hobson, Director of the Contemporary Art Society, recommends his favourite exhibition of the week.
"POINT. LINE. PLANE at Hannah Barry’s Peckham gallery is a fresh and robust group exhibition which sets out to survey new attitudes towards geometrical composition in non-objective painting and sculpture. Rather than pin-pointing a method or rule the show offers insight into some of the ways in which contemporary artists are approaching geometrical composition. I was particularly taken with the intriguing beauty of Tom Hackney’s chess paintings. The three works in the show map out moves played in three chess games Duchamp played in 1920’s Paris. The artist grids a square canvas and using a record of the game, maps out its progression applying a layer of gesso on the grid position of each piece move by move; the patterns of moves played out in the game begin to come forward in relief. This delicate and quiet exhibition causes the viewer to think about balance, composition and the relationship between geometrical rigour and gestural expression amongst a group of artists searching out a new vocabulary in point, line and plane."
29 October – 3 December 2011
Kadar Brock, Lilah Fowler, Christopher Green, Tom Hackney, Nick Jeffrey, Wyatt Kahn, Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq, Rob Sherwood, Viktor Timofeev
Hannah Barry Gallery, Unit 9i, Copeland Road Industrial Estate, 133 Copeland Road, London SE13 3SN
Open Wednesdays - Saturdays, 11am - 5pm, or by appointment.
November 2011
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POINT. LINE. PLANE. |
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(from left) Chess Paintings Nos. 17, 18, 16, Tom Hackney, 2011 |
POINT. LINE. PLANE. is intended as a survey of current attitudes towards geometrical principles in contemporary non-objective painting and sculpture.
The show’s title is a nod to Kandinsky, and his influential treatise on the proper application of the eponymous principles. The movement of which he was a spearhead held that geometrical abstraction is the purest form of visual art composition, taking axiomatic rules rather than subjective experience as its foundation, and thereby providing access to an order and harmony inherently more stable and reliable than that provided by the fleeting subjects of ordinary experience.
POINT. LINE. PLANE. brings together works in which the impulse towards order and harmony, as expressed through the combination of simple geometric forms or planes of colour, is reassessed, fractured or disrupted.
29.10.11 - 03.12.11
Hannah Barry Gallery
Unit 9i, 133 Copeland Road, Peckham, London SE15 3SN
September 2011
15·09·11 - 12·10·11
THE KNIGHT TURNS ITS HEAD AND LAUGHS
Lizi Sánchez & Tom Hackney
Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London
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July 2011 - 'SECONDS' - Sunday Painter Editions
Apophenia
62 x 48cm
Vinyl tape, frame
Edition of 5
Tom Hackney
2011