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Keith Tyson
ENTANGLED IN THE
AMBER GLOW OF A WEARY WOVEN WORLD
David Risley
Gallery
Bredgade 65 A | 1260
Copenhagen | DK
info @
davidrisleygallery.com
Preview: Friday October 21.
17.00 – 20.00
Exhibition: October 22 – 26
November.
David Risley
Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of six new
works by Keith Tyson.
Entangled
Solutions No. 1 (Necrotic mist)
Oil on
aluminium
1645 x 1645 x
28mm
2011
Tyson’s relentlessly
expansive practice, a 20-year journey that has included
drawing, painting, sculpture and large-scale installation, may
be most readily defined as an engagement with systems. A
system is a means of ordering and negotiating ideas and
things. Tyson is faithful to systems because they allow him to
be open to the infinite complexity of the world.
Entangled
Solutions No. 2 (The forgotten
dead)
Mixed Media on
Aluminium
1645 x 1645 x
28mm
2011
These systems have ranged
from computers, running algorithms that determined the precise
terms of artworks to be made, to meticulously arranged
sculptural installations in which the viewer becomes the
generative agent, catalyzing narratives and connections from
inside the composition.
Entangled
Solutions No. 4 (Solitary walk)
GRP/resin on
lightbox
Sculpture (H)1100 x
(W)540 x (D)1000mm
Lightbox (H)1220 x (W)1220 x
(D)300mm
2011
This exhibition marks a
decision, according to the artist, to “engage in a dialogue
with the system.” It is a softening of the rules and a turning
inward inspired in equal measure by the medium of painting and
the knotted, spiraling and interconnected life we live with
modern technology -- the ‘world wide web’ to which the
exhibition title obliquely refers. “Organic systems don’t add
extra cells to grow, they split,” Tyson explains, “they get
furry and more refined inside, and see their relative position
to each other from within.”
Entangled
Matrix No. 1 (A Weary Woven World)
Photographic
transparency in lightbox
1645 x 1645 x
28mm
2011
Entanglement Matrix
No. 1 (2011), the central work on display, is a
five-foot-square lightbox derived from a 25-panel
painting-in-progress. Those 25 discrete figurative panels
operate, at one level, as sculptural installations such as
Large Field Array operated: there are chains and
groupings linking the images in lines and boxes, allowing the
viewer the reassurance of narrative. Fighting these “frozen
moments,” however, is the never-ending compulsion, a painter’s
compulsion, for artistic flourish and indulgence.
Compositional, gestural and poetic threads weave the work
tighter as it becomes progressively unresolved. Tyson
describes it as an “ever-increasing dynamic,” a desire for
completeness despite our knowledge that all we are able to
generate is a tangle of potential.
Entangled
Solutions No. 3 (A cruentation of the
earth)
Mixed Media on
Aluminium with resin cast cabbage leaves
1645 x 1645 x
28mm
2011
“Painting is an artform
that has to exist in the glow of this ever-increasing
dynamic,” the artist explains. To earn a completed painting is
to resign oneself to the unknowable forces that illuminate it
while also, always, taking comfort in the “esoteric ritual” of
dialogue that allows its creation. The works in this
exhibition shine intimately on the viewer, each other and the
artistic act. It is the tenderness of the glow, though,
warming from within, that is felt most of all.
Entangled solution No. 5 (The
decapitated pig)
Ceramic tiles
& Mixed Media on Aluminium
690 x 690 x
28mm
2011
Tyson’s paintings,
drawings, and sculptures have been the subject of more than 20
solo exhibitions since 1995 and over 100 group shows since
1990. His work is held by important collections including the
Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London;
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Foundation François Pinault,
Paris; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2005,
Tyson was commissioned to create site-specific works for the
lobby of Chicago’s Hyatt Center.
In addition to receiving
the 2002 Turner Prize, Tyson received an Honorary Degree of
Doctor of Letters from the University of Brighton (2005) and
the ICA Arts and Innovation Award, London (1996). He studied
at the Barrow-in-Furness College of Engineering (1984–1989)
and the Carlisle College of Art (1989–90). He received his
M.A. from the University of Brighton (1993). He is in his
second year as the Artist in Residence in the Department of
Particle Astrophysics and Theoretical Cosmology at Oxford
University.
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