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English
& American Visionary Art 1903 – 2003
October 13th - November 15th 2003
Private
view Saturday 11th October 7:39pm
An
exhibition in celebration of 10 years of The Chamber Of Pop Culture featuring
work from :
Joe
Coleman ( US 1955 - )
Vonn
Stropp ( UK 1962 - )
Austin
Osman Spare ( UK 1886 – 1956 )
Norbert
Kox ( US 1945 - )
Charles
Benefiel ( US 1967 -)
Nick
Blinko ( UK 1961 - )
Malcolm
McKesson ( US 1909-1999 )
Paul
Rumsey ( UK 1956 - )
Laurie
Lipton ( US - )
Donald
Pass ( UK 1932 - )
From the sidereal portraits of Austin Osman Spare to the revelations of
Norbert Kox, the UK’s National Gallery Of Underground Art, The Chamber
Of Pop Culture and the world’s leading Outsider Art portal, The
Henry Boxer Gallery, synaethesise in one exhibition the collected talents
of Art Brut, Visionary Art and Modern British and European work to trace
an overview of visionary art from the 20th century to beyond.
Obsessively out of time, each artist inhabits a sole focus within the
subterfuge of their own dialogue - Vonn Stropp sees pre-raphaelite psychedelia;
each world we're privileged to partake of is one we may know - the Freudian
nightmares of Laurie Lipton’s pencil – but within the work
a glimpse becomes a visitation, an entrance into a realm of experience
amongst which we live, but only few inhabit – the infernal desire
mandalas of Joe Coleman.
These artists collectively morph the human imagination into hyper-realist
depictions of states, the body becomes metaphor for lapse of self; desire
and transcendence an angel in aspic – Charles Benefiel’s coded
language of dolls-by-dots, reducing the personal world to the numerical;
the Lovecraftian visions of Rudimentary Peni’s Nick Blinko, where
line belies screams; Norbert Kox’s apocalyptic visual parables of
fire glazed over; personal impressions succumbing to the demons of external
expression.
From the futuro-surrealist fringe, The Horse Hospital brings you the worship
of false image; ritualistic symbolism; obsessively morphing fugues; Bosch,
Bruegel, Goya; total psychokinetic exposure; transcendent oIsexuality;
Arcimboldo, Redon, Kubin; metaphoric realism; complex psychological narratives
and the immanence of angelic vision.
For
further details, information or photos, please contact James B.L. Hollands
(
020 ) 7833 3644
THE CHAMBER OF POP CULTURE
THE HORSE HOSPITAL
COLONNADE BLOOMSBURY LONDON WC1N 1HX
popculture@thehorsehospital.com
www.thehorsehospital.com
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