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Haunch of Venison is delighted to present a ten year survey exhibition of
British artist Keith Tyson’s Studio Wall Drawings; an ongoing series of
complex works on paper which record the artist’s thought process and
working practice. Of the works Tyson comments, “The Studio Wall
Drawings exist in a space somewhere between a map, a poem, a diary
and a painting”.
In the late ‘90s, after years of working with machines and methods based
on randomness Tyson began working on Studio Wall Drawings, which
provided a more personal means of mapping out new ideas. Acting as
large format notepads the subject of the works soon developed to include
individual experiences and world events. The day oil prices reached $50,
the birth of Tyson’s first child, foot and mouth disease, and the artist’s
own conception are some of the moments recorded.
Keith Tyson is one of the UK’s most prominent contemporary artists,
whose work draws on varied aspects of our interconnected universe,
inspiring the viewer to explore complex systems and make imaginative
leaps between a range of ideas both scientific, aesthetic, philosophical
and phantasmagorical. The exhibition will present a large selection of Studio Wall Drawings from
the last ten years, giving an overview of the artist’s most idiosyncratic
working method. The exhibition will also be accompanied by a major new
Haunch of Venison publication, Studio Wall Drawings 1997 – 2007, which
will include an interview with the renowned art historian Beatrix Ruf and
new text from critic Simon Grant.
For information and images please contact: Claire Walsh
Call +44 (0) 20 7936 1296 or email cwalsh@brunswickgroup.com
Keith Tyson, (b.1969) lives and works in Brighton. Tyson was awarded a Doctorate
of Letters in 2005 from the University of Brighton and has work in many major
international museum collections. Solo exhibitions include the exhibition of the
major sculptural work Large Field Array; a multi-faceted sculptural installation which
toured from the Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, Denmark, to the De Pont
museum of contemporary art, Holland, 2006-07, and is currently on display at
PaceWildenstein in New York until 20 October 2008. In March 2002 Tyson was one of four artists from the UK to show their work at the
Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, and later the same year was awarded the Turner Prize.
Tyson has also exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale, (his installation, Drawing and
Thinking, included The Thinker, (after Rodin), a black hexagonal sculpture housing
the internal hum of computers, a monolithic manifestation of thought itself), the 2nd
Berlin Biennale, the Kunsthalle Zürich, 2002, and the South London Gallery, 2002.
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