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Printed Matter
20 February to 22 March 2008
Private view Thursday 28th February from 6 to 8pm
Eleven is delighted to present Printed Matter, its first exhibition exclusively dedicated to limited edition prints. Printed Matter gathers the tenors of the Young British Artists scene Damien Hirst, Jake & Dinos Chapman and Gary Hume with a younger generation of artists: Jonathan Yeo, Olly & Suzi and Natasha Law.
Jake & Dinos Chapman
For their Etchasketchathon etching series (2005), Jake & Dinos Chapman the YBA's enfants terribles, pervert children colouring books, turning innocent scenes into gruesome nightmares. Etchasketchathon mixes found imagery with intricate drawings; each image evokes a hellish childhood where kids, bears and clowns become dangerous creatures ready for the worst.
Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst planned his spot paintings as an endless series, and set about formulating a process for making them: 'On each work no two colours are the same. No matter how I feel as an artist or a painter, the paintings end up looking happy...' Always titled with pharmaceutical products' name, such as here Cephalotin, the spot paintings or prints function like an immediate fix to moroseness.
Gary Hume
Here's Flowers (2006) is a perfect example of Gary Hume's creative process: starting with found photographs that he crops and alters, Hume composes images emancipated from strict figuration, despite some hints of their previous incarnation. In this series, the strong organic shapes articulate a complex composition where the vegetal subject seems to float in and out of our consciousness.
Natasha Law
Like her signature gloss paint on aluminium paintings, Natasha Law's Room (2008) and Jasmine (2008) explore the fascination for female beauty. Alternating between the traditional genres of nude and portraiture, Law's lines powerfully evoke her model's uniqueness and exalt an almost intoxicating essence of femininity.
Olly & Suzi
Olly & Suzi's works function like snapshots of their encounters with the wild. At the core of their art is their desire to record from life their experiences of nature. The fluid outlines of Lioness (2006) encapsulate the fleetingness of an exceptional moment. The feral big cat looks fierce and fragile, fascinating and endangered.
Jonathan Yeo
Jonathan Yeo first gained critical acclaim for his portraits merging a smooth photorealism with a strong painterly touch. With Bush (2007) Yeo pushed further the limits of portraiture. Realized with cut-outs from pornographic magazines, the presidential portrait turns into a sharp comment on the rigidity of American right-thinking Republican Party.
For further information on Printed Matter or forthcoming exhibitions at Eleven please contact Coline Milliard on 020 7823 5540 or on coline@elevenfineart.com
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