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Studio 1.1: AMANDA BENSON, ANDY COHEN : Birds and Houses - 4 Jan 2008 to 27 Jan 2008 Current Exhibition |
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AMANDA BENSON ANDY COHEN 'Birds and Houses' 4th - 27th January 2008 private view Thursday 3rd January 6 - 9 pm Running simultaneously with and counter to the vogue for property make-overs Amanda Benson presents Dreamhomes that, although they have their origins in California or Nantucket, are constructed from the primitive materials to be found to hand in a Hackney artist's studio. The gap between Jackie O or Elvis' mansion and the plasticine and cardboard re-interpretations express both a grand and poignant wish-fulfillment and the basic human need for shelter common to both. The everyday materials make up delicate and beautiful structures that pique our imagination, let us re-build the lives of the rich and/or famous in our own image and with whatever means are at our disposal. Andy Cohen produces delicate drawings that might themselves decorate these interiors, while also re-creating a corner of a real caravan, with all its authentic and exquisite paraphernalia, asking us once again: what is it that makes a home 'where the heart is'? The impulse to beautify one's domestic surroundings is basic but need not be primitive. The suite of images documenting a year in the life of that caravan tells the story of an unknowable existence that reaches back through a familiar past. Lived and yet not-lived, they form the shored fragments of the ruin of all our dreams, where aspiration escapes realisation. An examination of the unexamined life. A feature of the show will be Cohen's pub sign 'The Breast' calling us all into the snug, an environment of warmth and comfort, be it ever so humble - there's no place... |
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