28 Aug 2009 to 19 Sept 2009
open: Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm
or by appointment
studio 1.1
57a Redchurch Street
Nearest tubes Liverpool/Old Street
E2 7DJ
London
United Kingdom
Europe
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28 August - 19 September 2009 Private view: Thursday 27 August, 5 - 9 pm
Hovering (and the word conveys the delicacy of the experiment) between the realms of art/design/and pure invention, Will Cruickshank's work often proposes two simultaneous modes of interrogation. If it's art, does it matter if it also functions? If it functions, can it be art too?
When is a chair not a chair? (and true to the lyricism of Cruickshank's work, the question could come back immediately in song... 'even when there's no-one sitting there?'). Cruickshank gracefully morphs household or farmyard furniture, resiting it in a domestic - or gallery - space.
After the double-take when we see two seaside deckchairs turned into a bench for three, we're prompted to wonder: who is the extra seat for? The space between waiting for an unknown third. Practical, witty, and decorative. This sculpture is not only stackable; flattened, hung on the wall it offers the deftest possible critique of Hard-Edge Abstraction.
A solitary activity is turned into a communal one. Communion in fact is the key to these subtle works.
Also, announcing:
The Lottery Show (It’s not who you know...)
studio1.1 in an experiment (both tongue-in-cheek provocation, all-out fund-raiser but also an utterly serious proposal), is opening the gallery in 2010 to a four-week show by an artist selected entirely by lottery. Any artist, in any discipline, able to afford £10, may enter. 100 per cent of funds raised will go towards subsidising the show and the gallery's running costs. As with any lottery, there is no restriction on the number of tickets an individual may buy!
studio1.1 57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ tubes: Liverpool St / Old St bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388 email: studio1-1.gallery@virgin.net tel: 07952 986696 web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk open: Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm or by appointment
