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SIMON LE RUEZ works across a variety of media that includes sculpture, installation, video and drawing. For the exhibition "As Poison Leaks Away" he will also be showing "Mariannenplatz", 2010, a new photo- graphic projection work. Le Ruez's practice celebrates the notion of both an idea and a chosen medium transgressing itself. "L'Entrée des Groites", 2010, is a work that encap- sulates this aspiration. A monochrome postcard of three men outside the entrance of a cave has been overlaid in part by a deep red acrylic paint. For the artist this work, as a consequence of its appropriation, has the power to be simultaneously sculptural, filmic and painterly. Other works in the exhibition appear to take their lead from this. Large-scale floor based paper works operate like spacial drawings with fine lines of thread, glass spheres and foam balls accentuating gestures that allude to both landscape and human forms. These works play with an aesthetic that again challenges the viewer to consider inherent material qualities and their subversion. In Le Ruez's works, an opposition is at play and complicit conflicts are always present. As a means to fully implicate the viewer in these unfolding tensions Le Ruez explores these ideas in a way where the potential for movement, progression and change is a pertinent one. Simon Le Ruez holds a grant from the Arts Council England, Lottery funded, and is a guest at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in the context of our International Studio Programme. Simon Le Ruez - "As Poison Leaks Away" 20th August - 5th September 2010 Tuesday - Sunday, 2 - 7 pm Opening: Thursday, 19th August 2010, from 7 pm Gallery spaces at Kottbusser Straße 10 | |
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