JUAN FONTANIVE: Monday 20 February - Saturday 24 March
Brooklyn-based Juan Fontanive's third solo exhibition at Riflemaker consists of a series of kinetic sculptures which move in sequence using metal linkages, rubber belts, pulleys and drives. The mechanisms are choreographed as individual elements working together like components in a song - each machine having its own sound crucial to the whole group. As with all of Fontanive's work, we're invited to look and listen.
Click to download book (PDF)
Brooklyn-based Juan Fontanive's third solo exhibition at Riflemaker consists of a series of kinetic sculptures which move in sequence using metal linkages, rubber belts, pulleys and drives. The mechanisms are choreographed as individual elements working together like components in a song - each machine having its own sound crucial to the whole group. As with all of Fontanive's work, we're invited to look and listen.
Click to download book (PDF)
JOSEPHINE KING: Monday 26 March - Saturday 21 April
Josephine King (b.1965 London) makes ink-paintings on paper - a flat 'cut out and keep' portrait framing text which documents the often traumatic experience of the artist's life.
Her second Riflemaker exhibition, upcoming in March, is entitled
'I told him I was an artist. He said "can you cook ?" '
"They seem to me to be totally truthful pictures, from the heart. Many people will identify with these images" Paula Rego
"In painting Modern Woman, I am looking outside of myself rather than just looking within.
Showing myself naked in both mind and body depicts how it feels for me to be going against the grain of society. As a woman painter, I have nothing to lose"
Josephine King
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Josephine King (b.1965 London) makes ink-paintings on paper - a flat 'cut out and keep' portrait framing text which documents the often traumatic experience of the artist's life.
Her second Riflemaker exhibition, upcoming in March, is entitled
'I told him I was an artist. He said "can you cook ?" '
"They seem to me to be totally truthful pictures, from the heart. Many people will identify with these images" Paula Rego
"In painting Modern Woman, I am looking outside of myself rather than just looking within.
Showing myself naked in both mind and body depicts how it feels for me to be going against the grain of society. As a woman painter, I have nothing to lose"
Josephine King
Click to open press release.
Click here for hi-res images
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TIM SHAW: Monday 23 April - Saturday 26 May
The sculptor Tim Shaw (b. Belfast 1964) is known for his installation 'Casting a Dark Democracy' depicting the unrelenting horror of the Abu Graihb jail in Baghdad. Upon entering an unprepossessing house in Hammersmith, visitors found themselves confronted by the shock of an all too real simulation of the terror cell, an image made familiar by constant press usage - one of the signature images of the Iraq war.
"The most politically charged yet poetically resonant new work on show in London now" Financial Times
"Shockingly powerful. I'd assumed that no artwork could ever match the impact of the newspaper photos, but Casting succeeds" Artforum
"Arguably one of the most courageous sculptures of our time" Dazed & Confused
Shaw's work is often political in nature as well as being both mythical and metaphysical. Connecting these elements is a sense that the work relates to both ancient and modern humanity. He works across a range of different mediums and scales, creating single free-standing forms as well as large-scale multi-sensory installations which also utilise sound and smell.
The sculptor Tim Shaw (b. Belfast 1964) is known for his installation 'Casting a Dark Democracy' depicting the unrelenting horror of the Abu Graihb jail in Baghdad. Upon entering an unprepossessing house in Hammersmith, visitors found themselves confronted by the shock of an all too real simulation of the terror cell, an image made familiar by constant press usage - one of the signature images of the Iraq war.
"The most politically charged yet poetically resonant new work on show in London now" Financial Times
"Shockingly powerful. I'd assumed that no artwork could ever match the impact of the newspaper photos, but Casting succeeds" Artforum
"Arguably one of the most courageous sculptures of our time" Dazed & Confused
Shaw's work is often political in nature as well as being both mythical and metaphysical. Connecting these elements is a sense that the work relates to both ancient and modern humanity. He works across a range of different mediums and scales, creating single free-standing forms as well as large-scale multi-sensory installations which also utilise sound and smell.
LEAH GORDON: Monday 28 May - Saturday 7 July
Leah Gordon (b 1959, Ellesmere Port) is a photographer, film-maker and curator who has, in recent years, produced a considerable body of work on the boundaries between history, art, religion, anthropology, colonialism and folk history.
Her photographs register Haiti's juncture between its history, its cosmology and the present.
