Sadie
Coles HQ
SIMON PERITON 13 Oct - 27 Nov 2004
The Edge of the World private view, 13 Oct, 6-8pm
For
his third show at HQ Simon Periton takes his scalpel to our rural landscapes
and urban wastelands. Railway tracks, graffiti tagged walls and abandoned
factories meet Suffolk hedgerows and an idyllic landscape taken from the
repeated pattern of a net curtain. The source material travels from the
pylon studded English countryside to the oil fields of the Middle East,
ranging from a parochial vision of damaged arcadia to the heart of destruction
on a global scale. Stairway to Heaven, a floor to ceiling multiple layered
vista of oil wells and electricity pylons stands as the centre piece.
The title of the show is borrowed from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s
film The Edge of the World (1937), with which it shares a romantic, but
slightly doom laden air, a kind of melancholy nostalgia.
Periton’s cut paper works develop the window metaphor inherent in
landscape paintings, as the negative spaces create apertures. From here
he plays further with dimensions and illusions of depth through his layering
of coloured paper, while the large scale allows the works to engulf us
like the great outdoors or the make believe stage flats of a theatre or
film set. The repetition of elements, off set by slight discrepancies
within mirror images enhances this natural, vegetal dimension. Furthermore
there is an organic quality to the intricately cut, delicate layers of
paper, strands held together in a dense web, mirroring the dichotomous
fragility and tenacity of a creeper as they spread out across the gallery
walls
Simon Periton lives and works in London. He has had solo shows throughout
Europe and the US, including Mint Poisoner at Inverleith House, Royal
Botanic Garden Edinburgh (2003) and Camden Arts Centre (1998) and his
work has been included in many group shows including this year’s
Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy for which he was nominated for
the Charles Wollaston Award. He has worked on many collaborations including
working with Junya Watanabe/Comme des Garçons on their Autumn Winter
Collection 2003-04. In 2004 Periton was commissioned to create works for
the Channel 4 Television headquarters and the BBC Media Centre and is
currently working on a project for the new Home Office building.
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