COMMA 19 Damien Deroubaix COMMA 20 Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Thursday 4 March – Saturday 20 March 2010 Open Monday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm. Open Late First Thursday 4 March till 9pm Exhibition Talk Thursday 4 March 12.30 – 1.30pm. All welcome Bloomberg SPACE, 50 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1HD Open: Monday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm W www.bloombergspace.com E gallery@bloomberg.net T + 44 20 7330 7959
Bloomberg SPACE presents a series of newly commissioned work by artist Damien Deroubaix and an ambitious architectural intervention by Marc Camille Chaimowicz as part of the ongoing COMMA series of rapidly changing exhibitions.
Berlin-based French artist Damien Deroubaix works across a diverse range of media from painting and watercolour on paper to sculpture and installation. He has developed, over the years, a complex and unique imagery that reveals the influence of major figures in the history of painting such as Jerome Bosch, Brueghel, Holbein, Max Beckman, Francis Bacon and David Hockney, with whom he shares a fascination for myths and symbolism in the field of representation. Deroubaix’s prolific work seamlessly combines medieval imagery alongside pictures and slogans taken from advertising and political propaganda, thereby echoing the use of images in contemporary counter-cultures such as Grindcore music.
In his new commission for COMMA, Deroubaix will experiment with wood block, a technique normally reserved for printmaking. Sculpting by gouging out the surface layer of the wood, his images are made visible through the application of a layer of black ink. For this new work Deroubaix has drawn his inspiration from the biblical story of the Temptation of St Anthony, relating this ancient tale to the pursuit of money and power in our contemporary world. Accompanying this major new undertaking will be a large sculpture elevated in the centre of the front gallery. The sculpture is a tree on which sinister heads and bats have seemingly either grown, or been hung or fallen onto the ground.
Internationally acclaimed artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s work has remained consistent for almost three decades in relation to performance, place, and decoration. Using a quiet poetic sense, a delicate wafting regard to wallpaper, carpet, object and furniture, Chaimowicz has always placed the spirit of performance within the spaces in which he works. When invited to respond and create a new commission for the rear gallery at Bloomberg SPACE, Chaimowicz, a creator of furnished fictional contexts, was immediately inspired by the potential of contrasting the modern office atrium with his own particular approach to decorative installation. He intends to suspend within the atrium a series of carpets, crafted in France to his own design, to create a series of moving ‘magic’ carpets.
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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. Over twenty of today's most outstanding emerging and established international artists will be invited to create new work, installations and architectural interventions in a fast paced succession of monthly exhibitions.
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.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz is represented by Cabinet, London.
Damien Deroubaix was short listed for the 2009 Marcel Duchamp Prize.
