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studio 1.1: JAY CLOTH and KATE LYDDON 'Schadenfreude' - 4 Oct 2013 to 27 Oct 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Kate Lyddon 'Weird Science' 2013
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JAY CLOTH and KATE LYDDON 'Schadenfreude' 4 - 27 October private view Thursday 3 October 6 - 9 pm Well at least there's a bit of Freude in there somewhere, even if it's not entirely yours... all very Neue Sachlichkeit I must say. Heimito von Doderer in his huge novel ''The Demons' chronicles (as with hindsight was so modish) the disintegration of Austrian society post World War One. Jay Cloth and Kate Lyddon similarly dissect the small self-important world-weariness of London as it staves off cyclical collapse. There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, (from 'The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock' T.S. Eliot) And otherwise... Faces and visions collide in forms that Eliot could well recognise, if it's the mask-become-face of Jay Cloth's exquisite collages - you think this is grotesque? rip off the mask and something truly horrible lies underneath - or the squat deformities of Kate Lyddon's figures, painted, drawn or modelled: today's morally ambiguous metamorphoses, anatomies of beauty become cruelty, link back through a whole century that changed nothing. learned nothing, forgot everything. Showing us what we simultaneously relish while wishing we'd never seen it, the two artists play with meaning in just the way a cat plays with a mouse. studio1.1 57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ tubes: Shoreditch High St/Liverpool St/Old St bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388 email: [email protected] tel: 07952 986696 web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk open: Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm or by appointment |
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