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The Approach: John Stezaker Tabula Rasa - 29 Jan 2010 to 21 Mar 2010 Current Exhibition |
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29th January - 21th March 2010 John Stezaker Tabula Rasa John Stezaker�s exhibition at The Approach will combine historical works from the 1980s with new collages. �Tabula Rasa� was a title first applied by John Stezaker in the mid 80�s to collages involving rhomboid shaped holes in landscape photographs and film stills, though this device first appeared in Stezaker�s work about seven years earlier. The title was taken from a piece of music by Arvo Part that he composed after a period of creative block, and is said to be related to the artist�s or composer�s dread of the empty page or canvas. For Stezaker, who works with pre-existing images, the tabula rasa inspires no such dread. On the contrary, his Tabula Rasa series adds to the world of images with a subtraction � by a removal of what is already there. For Stezaker, the Tabula Rasa was an opportunity for fantasy, for creating imaginary studios as stage sets. At times, especially in the early landscape series, the tabula rasa represents a blank canvas, whereas with the cinematic images the collages seem to suggest more of a screen. Many of the subtractive cuts in the Film Still collages relate to an empty white cinema screen or to a projective beam, as in the �Excisions�. In a way, they are also like diagrammatic representations of a Cartesian model of perception � the cone of vision, the shadow and the screen. Around the time of the Tabula Rasa collages, Stezaker was working on a series of large-scale silkscreen prints on canvas. In these works, the use of the same rhomboid shapes create the possibility of a combination between the movement of spatial encounter and a cinematic unfolding of space, all within the confines of the monochrome. In his more recent collages, the tabula rasa cut becomes an aperture through which to enter another world of the image. Sometimes inverted, sometimes involving figurative continuity, the tabula rasa opens up cinema�s uncanny and liminal space in which worlds are created and collapsed. Essential to these worlds created by the viewer�s own projections is the act of looking. John Stezaker was born in 1949 in England. Recent solo shows include: Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (2009); Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2009); Friedrich Petzel, New York (2009); GAK, Bremen (2009); A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia (2008); Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf (2008); Masks, The Approach, London (2007); Marriages, Karsten Schubert, London (2007); John Stezaker, The Rubell Family Collection (2007). Recent group shows include: Taj Mahal Travellers, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm (2009); The Quick and The Dead, Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis (2009); Source Codes, Spr�th Magers, Berlin (2009); Le sang d�un po�te, FRAC des Pays de la Loire (2009); Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York (2008); Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London (2008); Past-Forward, 176, The Zabludowicz Collection, London (2008). For further information please contact Vanessa Carlos ([email protected]) John Stezaker Born 1949 Worcester, England Lives and works in London Education Slade School of Art, London Solo Exhibitions 2009 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (upcoming) Friedrich Petzel, New York 2008 A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, D�sseldorf GAK- Gesellschaft f�r Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Bremen, Germany 2007 Two part show: Marriage, Karsten Schubert (Sep-Nov), London; Masks, The Approach W1, London (Oct-Nov) The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL Stills Gallery, Edinburgh Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Project Room, Yvon Lambert, Paris 2006 The Approach E2, London Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, D�sseldorf Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles Bridges and other Metaphors, Norwich Gallery, Norwich John Stezaker, White Columns, New York 2005 Archiv & Erz�hlung [Archives and Narration]: John Stezaker and T.J. Wilcox, Kunstverein Muenchen, Munich 2004 The Third Person Archive and other works, The Approach, London 2001 The Holy Land Series, Wigmore Fine Art, London 1999 Angels, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 1996 Garden, Cubitt Gallery, London 1991 Care & Control, Salama-Caro Gallery, London 1990 Film Still Collages, Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany [cat.] 1989 John Stezaker: New Work, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England [cat.] Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1984 Lisson Gallery, London 1979 Galerie �ric Fabre, Paris Werke 1973-1978, Kuntsmueum Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne [cat.] Ikon Gallery, Birmingham The World Made Flesh, The New �57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland [cat.] 1978 Fragments, Photographer�s Gallery, London, England [cat.] Collages, 1977-1978, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England [cat.] Southampton City Museum, Southampton, England 1977 Dream Allegories. John Stezaker Collages 1976-1977. Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London [cat.] Galerie �ric Fabre, Paris, France Schema Gallery, Florence, Italy Spectro Arts, Newcastle, England 1976 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England Trois Oeuvres [Three Works], Galerie �ric Fabre, Paris, France [cat.] 1975 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London Galerie �ric Fabre, Paris 1974 Galerie Decembre, Munster, Germany Galleria Lia Rumma, Rome Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples 1973 The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford 1972 Beyond Art for Art�s Sake: a Propus Mundus, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England [cat.] 1970 Works, 1969-1971, Sigi Krauss Gallery, London, England [cat.] Group Exhibitions 2009 William Horner & John Stezaker, The Russian Club Gallery, London 2008 Not so Subtle Subtitle, curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan, New York Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London Past-Forward, 176, The Zabludowicz Collection, London Cohabitation: 13 Artists and Collage, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan 2007 Panic Attack, Barbican Art Gallery, London Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring: selected by artist Steven Claydon, Camden Arts Centre, London 2006 Dereconstruction, curated by Matthew Higgs, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Figures of the Player: The paradox of the actor, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon A Season in Hell, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London World Gone Mad: Surrealist Returns in Recent British Art, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury; travelling to Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Limehouse Arts Foundation, London [cat.] The Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin Tate Triennial 2006 �New British Art, Tate Britain, London [cat.] 2005 Time Lines, Kunstverein f�r die Rheinlande und Westfalen, D�sseldorf Cut, The Approach, London 1979, Bloomberg Space, London Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York Collage, Signs & Surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York Mourning, Sies & Hoeke, D�sseldorf RCA print folio, Royal College of Art, London 2004 Collage, Bloomberg Space, London Je t�envisage, La disparition du portrait, Musee de L�Elysee, Lausanne Cara a Cara, Culturgest, Lisbon About Face, Hayward Gallery, London Future Face, Science Museum, London Portraits of Non-Humans, David Risley Gallery, London Polaroid, 39 Gallery, London 2003 Ex-press, Royal College of Art, London Please Take One, 39 Gallery, London 2002 Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle [cat.] 2000 The British Art Show 5, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland; travelling to Collective Gallery; Dean Gallery; Fruitmarket Gallery; Royal Botanic Gardens; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Stills; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; John Hansard Gallery; Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England; Centre for Visual Arts; Chapter Arts Centre; Fotogallery; National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England [cat.] 1999 23rd Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art, British Section, Mednarodni grafični likovni center, Ljubljana River Deep, Mountain High, Gallery Westland Place, London; travelling to University of Dundee, Duncan and Jordanston Gallery, Dundee 1998 American and European Photo-art, Larem Kloker Gallery, Vienna 2nd Shoreditch Photography Biennial, London Chemical Traces/ Photography and Conceptual Art, 1968-1998, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull City Council, Kingston upon Hull; travelling to Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds [cat.] 1997 Pictura Brittanica: Art from Britain (British Council), Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; travelling to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand Strange Days, Contemporary British Photography, Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan [cat.] Sad, Gasworks, London The Quick and The Dead, Royal College of Art, London The Impossible Document: Photography and Conceptual Art in Britain 1966-1976, Cameraworks Gallery, London, travelling to Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge [cat.] Icons, Touring, Tokyo, Kyoto and Hong Kong Life/Live: Young British Art, Musee d�Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; travelling to Centro Cultural de Bel�m, Lisbon [cat.] Various group shows, Bank London (1996, 1997, 1998) 1996 The Body, Touring Exhibition Canada 1995 Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; The Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida; The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon; The Philbrook Academy, Tulsa, Oklahoma; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; The Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii; Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan; Daimaru Museum, Umeda-Osaka, Japan; Takamatsu City Museum, Takamatsu, Japan; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan The Curator�s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1994 Who�s Looking at the Family, Barbican Art Gallery, London 1992 Flora Photographica, Serpentine Gallery, London 1990 Art Conceptuel, Formes Conceptuelles, Galerie 1900/2000, Paris 1989 John Stezaker, Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles 1987 Altered States, Kent Fine Art, New York [cat.] Multiple vision: Ron Haselden, Colin McArthur, John Stezaker, Paul Wombel, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge 1984 1984: An Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London [cat.] 1983 Geometry of Desire, Galerie Venster, Rotterdam 1982 Simulacra, Riverside Studios, London Aperto, XL, Biennale di Venezia, Venice [cat.] Close to the Edge, White Columns, New York 1980 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London 1979 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London [cat.] Un certain art anglais�, ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris JP2, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1978 Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1977 British Art, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels 1976 Art Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan Times, Words and the Camera, Akademische Druck-U, Graz, Austria 1975 9th Biennale de Paris, Paris 1974 Project 74, Kunsthalle K�ln, Cologne Critic�s Choice, Tooth�s Gallery, London Beyond Painting and Sculpture�: works bought for the Arts Council by Richard Cork, Arts Council touring Exhibition [cat.] toured Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; 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