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Galleri Tom Christoffersen: JAMES JESSOP � UNCANNY TALES - 9 Jan 2009 to 7 Feb 2009 Current Exhibition |
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James Jessop: Uncanny Tales. 2008, oil and acrylic on canvas, 255x154 cm
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JAMES JESSOP - UNCANNY TALES Opening: 09.01.2009 at 5-8 pm Duration: 09.01. - 07.02.2009 UNCANNY TALES at Galleri Tom Christoffersen is James Jessop�s (UK/1974) first solo exhibition in Denmark. Featuring Jessop's latest spoof horror b-movie/pulp fiction disturbing strangeness - Uncanny Tales continues his series of relentless large-scale epic painterly adventures. The exhibition represents two tracks of the artist�s production. The first deals with power games embodied in femme fatale, sex and violent fantasies in decadent yet glamorous settings. A visual cocktail, which could match any cover on pulp literature such as �true crime detective magazines� so popular from the 1920ties to the 80ties. The other track shown relates to uncensored, dark sided comics putting forth terrifying scenes as vampires fight mummies and zombies rise from death � a track which is just as intriguing and camp as the retro-crimes. The artist�s trademark "Horrific" style burst onto the London art scene with impact at Charles Saatchi's infamous New Blood exhibition at The Saatchi Gallery London 2004. But already as aged eleven Jessop bagan his artistic adventures spraying Hip Hop style graffiti, and today is a highly respected and wel-known street tagger in London. With a strange story to tell and an approach to the media departing both from graffiti and from the Royal College of Art James Jessop�s direct, dense and dynamic works demonstrate an energy seldom found in contemporary painting. James Jessop (1974) lives and works in London. He graduated from the Royal College of Art London in 1999. On the 24th October 2008 he founded the "Graffatarian" religion, based on leading your graffiti life with 1970's New York Subway graffiti writing values. Previous solo exhibitions have been shown at Galeria Thomas Cohn Sao Paulo, Sartorial Contemporary Art London, Rockwell London and This Way Up Gallery London. Jessop has has featured in group exhibitions in Copenhagen, Berlin, New York, Melbourne, Bratislava and Sweden. In 2008 Jessop curated Burning Candy at Leeds College of Art and Design, which toured to Sartorial Contemporary Art London. The show presented three of England's finest graffiti writers Cyclops, Sweet Toof and Tek33(Jessop). For more on Jessop/Tek33 visit: www.sartorialart.com, www.tomchristoffersen.dk, www.myspace.com/jamesjessop, www.myspace.com/originaltek33 |
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