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Until
17 Jan 03
Neal Rock paints with pigmented silicon, piped onto deep three-dimensional
supports using icing bags. The densely layered, glistening constructions
of paint which he creates are baroque in their decorative excess. Their
visceral surfaces sometimes enclose synthetic flowers or other appropriated
objects of commercial decoration; the silicon itself spreads across and
away from its support like an organic form. Rock orchestrates our responses
to the work between fascination and gentle revulsion.
For this, his first solo exhibition in London, Neal Rock will use the
full height and architectural complexity of the f a projects space to
install a new series of works entitled: Work from the Polari Range. They
draw their title from the covert language used in London’s ‘Homosexual
Underworld’ as it was then prejudicially termed in the 1950s. This
indicates the terrain of the work within a field of shifting meanings,
both linguistic and visual. The works at times seem to grow out of the
building’s very structure, a kind of ebullient decay, at other times
they stand alone as pure sculptural compositions in paint.
Since graduating from St Martins in 2000, Rock has developed a unique
and personal language and technique; his concerns are painterly in as
much as his work develops an intense relation between surface and material,
and abstract in so far as there is no distinction between the work’s
form and what it represents. His work explores the limits of painting
as practice, the boundaries between painting, sculpture and construction.
In the autumn of 2003 Rock will show in ‘Temporary Fiction’
with David Burrows, Hew Locke, Danny Rolph and Deidre King at Transition,
and in an exhibition at APT curated by Peter Lamb. He is currently exhibiting
at Kontainer Gallery in Los Angeles, and in 2004 will have a solo show
with Henry Urbach Architecture, New York.
Gallery open Tuesday – Friday 10 am – 6 pm Saturday
12 – 5 pm
Note: the
gallery will be closed for Christmas from 18 December – 5 January
t + 44 (0) 207 928 3228 f + 44 (0) 207 928 5123
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a projects limited Directors: Nicholas Baker, Zoë Foster Registered
in England no: 4200705
f a projects 1-2 Bear Gardens
London SE1 9ED
www.faprojects.com
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