COMMA30 David Jablonowski
COMMA31 Myriam Mechita
Thursday 13 January – Saturday 12 February 2011
Open Late First Thursday 3 February till 9pm
Exhibition Talk Thursday 13 January, 12.30 – 1.30pm.
Light lunch served.
Bloomberg SPACE
50 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1HD
Open: Monday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm
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COMMA, the successful series of fast paced exhibitions, continues at Bloomberg SPACE with newly commissioned works by David Jablonowski and Myriam Mechita.
As an artist, Jablonowski asks questions about the potential of communication in contemporary visual culture. Through sculpture and film, he explores the way language is established and developed and then reproduced technically in relation to political and historical discourse. For Jablonowski, ‘History has been produced and constructed by sign-constructions, which means that historical events, structures and processes are inseparably connected to their representation.’
For COMMA at Bloomberg SPACE, Jablonowski will transform the front gallery through a series of specially commissioned sculptures and film. The sculptures made from plaster, paper, and metal use a range of principles to establish form and positioning. They are surrounded by a web of moving images consisting of 4 sequences referring to semiotic history. The sculptures keep the viewer at a distance so they are unable to decipher the display’s immediate meaning. The repetitive and unsustainable promise of a valid direction of communication is expressed in the work which questions the contemporary understanding of sign systems; making us aware, not only of the transience of visual language, but also of the display systems at work.
Myriam Mechita’s installations function like a window into the artist’s dream, creating a fantastic visual universe. The work stimulates the spectator’s attention by soliciting the memory of her senses. Drawings are constructed from discontinued lines, wallpapers are made of thousands of patiently embroidered sequins, and her sculptures are created from encrusted pearls. Light is central to the work, and through intensely engaging our perception by multiplying mirrors, split images, palindromes and shapeless shadows, she builds on an illusion.
Mechita's new work for COMMA creates a landscape of sprawling murals and sculptures which take over the walls and floor of the back gallery. Her phantasmagorical world combines animals, skulls, mountains, and castles in ruins. It is a mythical world made contemporary. Her use of materials conveys an undeniable glamour and decadence: latex, glitter, coloured pearls and feathers are used alongside painted wood, and ceramic.
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Notes to Editors:
COMMA
COMMA is a dynamic new series of commissions enabling artists to experiment and expand their practice in relation to Bloomberg SPACE and its communities. Forty of today's most outstanding emerging and established international artists will be invited to create new work, installations and architectural interventions.
Bloomberg SPACE
Bloomberg SPACE is a gallery based at Bloomberg’s European headquarters in London and is dedicated to commissioning and exhibiting contemporary art. It welcomes visitors six days a week and admission is free. COMMA at Bloomberg SPACE reflects the core principles of innovation, engagement, adventurous creativity and education central to Bloomberg's reputation for arts sponsorship.
Myriam Mechita is represented by Galerie Nosbaum & Reding in Luxembourg. Recent solo shows include:2010 Les architectures du désir ou mourir dans les bras de la foudre, Le Parvis, Tarbes Galerie La Manufacture de Sèvres, Paris (Group); 2009 Les semblants à découvert ou I’m an animal without fear, Micro Onde, Centre d’art contemporain, Vélizy; 2008 Entrer dans la nuit de la nuit (I’m an animal too), FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen; Entrer dans la nuit de la nuit, Nosbaum et Reding – Art Contemporain, Luxembourg Gag Gallery, Adélaïde; 2006 La suprématie du savoir ou le juste retour des choses, Maison de la Radio, Algiers(delete), retrouver le sol et se retourner, La Galerie, Centre d’art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec; 2005 L´oeuvre levée ou la mesure du sens, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gray La mesure du sens ou l´exécution calibrée, Art contemporain –Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg La suprématie du savoir ou l’oeuvre révélée, Open Space, Art Cologne, Cologne; 2003 Institut culturel français, Karlsruhe.
David Jabolonowski is represented by Gallery Fons Welters in Amsterdam and Gallery Luettgenmeijer in Berlin. Recent solo shows include ‘Imposition’, Schaufenster of the Kunstverein Duesseldorf, Germany and SMBA (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ‘Perfection, Simple Way’ at Gallery Luettgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany. Group shows include; ‘Monumentalism’ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2010, De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands (group); After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (group); Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree, Galerie Luettgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany (group). 2009 Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom (group); The Knights Tour (Contemporary Sculpture), Museum De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands (group); Offspring, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (group); Art Amsterdam 2009, Rai, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo); Group show with gallery artists, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (group). 2010 Frieze Art Fair, London, United Kingdom (solo). Forthcoming solo show at Gallery Fons Welters in 2011.
Bloomberg SPACE
50 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1HD
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E gallery@bloomberg.net
T + 44 20 7330 7959
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