14 Mar 2008 to 6 Apr 2008
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John Tiney, Valley of the Stars (study), acrylic and cellulose on mdf, 60 x 40 cms, 2007
studio1.1 is very pleased to present a new series of large paintings by John Tiney. Since completing his MA at Goldsmiths in 2005, where his forensic mind explored film-making, he has made a triumphant return to painting in this his first solo show.
In these skewed post-pop mythologies found and re-worked images contradict themselves while their meticulous execution suggests we may be missing something. A forgotten legend, an archetype new to us. A synthesis of images bubbling from the peripheral universes of advertising and archive.
Far from any fashionable dystopia, however, a new hope is to be found clinging to the wreckage in these fragments from a mutated childhood. Post-apocalyptic they may be, but after the Twilight of the Gods is the Dawn of Man, and '2001' offers some back-dated hope of survival.
