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JOHN MAEDA at the V&A 'Decode' from Tuesday 8 December www.vam.ac.uk |
JUAN FONTANIVE Solo Presentation Zoo 2009 |
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW 'Anima' opens Tuesday 24 November 6-9pm |
While we prepare the gallery for Alice Anderson's installation 'Time Reversal', opening Monday 1 March,
Riflemaker is open regular hours for a special preview of selected works by Christopher Bucklow, Tim Shaw,
José-Maria Cano (The Wall Street 100) Artists Anonymous, Francesca Lowe and Richard Niman including
our new Uniques Store of one-off editions.
THE UNIQUES STORE
January - February 2010
If there are Editions, there must also be 'Uniques', and these are they.
During January and February this year, on all three floors, we preview unique one-off exclusives by many of the artists we represent.
Including dream-machines, kinetic films, bronze sculpture, bijouterie, paper sculpture, screened fright-wigs, projections, wax paintings, after-images, light drawings, cut-ups, file-folders, poem cones, film and photography by Juan Fontanive, Tim Shaw, Artists Anonymous, Mati Klarwein, Anja Niemi, Christopher Bucklow, Julie Verhoeven, Simon Henwood, Leah Gordon, Elena Khudiakova, Liliane Lijn, Marta Marcé, Jaime Gili, William S. Burroughs, Richard Niman, Jose´-Maria Cano, Andrey Bartenev, Francesca Lowe and Gavin Turk
January - February 2010
If there are Editions, there must also be 'Uniques', and these are they.
During January and February this year, on all three floors, we preview unique one-off exclusives by many of the artists we represent.
Including dream-machines, kinetic films, bronze sculpture, bijouterie, paper sculpture, screened fright-wigs, projections, wax paintings, after-images, light drawings, cut-ups, file-folders, poem cones, film and photography by Juan Fontanive, Tim Shaw, Artists Anonymous, Mati Klarwein, Anja Niemi, Christopher Bucklow, Julie Verhoeven, Simon Henwood, Leah Gordon, Elena Khudiakova, Liliane Lijn, Marta Marcé, Jaime Gili, William S. Burroughs, Richard Niman, Jose´-Maria Cano, Andrey Bartenev, Francesca Lowe and Gavin Turk
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW
(b. 1959 Manchester)
'ANIMA'
Tuesday 24 November - Saturday 19 December
(b. 1959 Manchester)
'ANIMA'
Tuesday 24 November - Saturday 19 December
Anima and Animus are the names given by Carl Jung to the undeveloped parts of the male and female psyche. In men, this unexpressed side has an inner feminine quality.
Often personified as a character in dreams, Anima appears as mysterious, distant and beautiful. In my case this character appeared as the female alien in my Alien Fusion Dream painting which was published in the Riflemaker book for my 2004 exhibition 'I Will Save Your Life'. I believe this character did in fact save my life by causing me stop my intellectual-curatorial career and begin to make art.
Anima figures do not only occur in private dreams. The figure is present in the dreams of our culture - in literature, fashion and cinema as well as in the myths of our religions - as Eve and as Mary, siren-like figures, matriarchal and queenly archetypes. In my new light photographs, and in some of the accompanying paintings, I make use of the physical characteristics of the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer. Characteristics which have caused her to be promoted to a situation whereby Anima conditions and fantasies have been projected onto her.
Some of the images show this Anima figure with the artist Matthew Barney (who appeared in my first photographic series in 1995) holding up my paintings - like the saleroom porters who display lots for bidders during an auction. When the same character appears at the door in the voluminous dress she is in the character of Eustacia Vye, the mysterious dark Anima-figure in Thomas Hardy's 'Return of the Native'. I like the idea that a fictional character from Hardy and an artist such as Barney, my Animus, dressed as a goat-god, act as bearers of these newly created images. Paintings of paintings of paintings.
The internal Anima figure which I feel I personally bear acts much like a door. Anima opened the inner doors between my conscious and unconscious areas, but she is also, in some way, the door itself.
Christopher Bucklow, London 2009
Christopher Bucklow's photographs are represented in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Often personified as a character in dreams, Anima appears as mysterious, distant and beautiful. In my case this character appeared as the female alien in my Alien Fusion Dream painting which was published in the Riflemaker book for my 2004 exhibition 'I Will Save Your Life'. I believe this character did in fact save my life by causing me stop my intellectual-curatorial career and begin to make art.
Anima figures do not only occur in private dreams. The figure is present in the dreams of our culture - in literature, fashion and cinema as well as in the myths of our religions - as Eve and as Mary, siren-like figures, matriarchal and queenly archetypes. In my new light photographs, and in some of the accompanying paintings, I make use of the physical characteristics of the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer. Characteristics which have caused her to be promoted to a situation whereby Anima conditions and fantasies have been projected onto her.
Some of the images show this Anima figure with the artist Matthew Barney (who appeared in my first photographic series in 1995) holding up my paintings - like the saleroom porters who display lots for bidders during an auction. When the same character appears at the door in the voluminous dress she is in the character of Eustacia Vye, the mysterious dark Anima-figure in Thomas Hardy's 'Return of the Native'. I like the idea that a fictional character from Hardy and an artist such as Barney, my Animus, dressed as a goat-god, act as bearers of these newly created images. Paintings of paintings of paintings.
The internal Anima figure which I feel I personally bear acts much like a door. Anima opened the inner doors between my conscious and unconscious areas, but she is also, in some way, the door itself.
Christopher Bucklow, London 2009
Christopher Bucklow's photographs are represented in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
