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David Thorpe: Evolution Now, 2000 - 2001
paper cut-out, 110x70cm
Courtesy Maureen Paley, Interim Art
Private Collection |
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Tailsliding was a British Council international touring exhibition, featuring 12 young British artists currently creating eclectic work within the conventions of painting and sculpture, selected by Stephen Hepworth, former curator of the Jerwood Gallery, London.
The highly coloured, large, exuberant works draw imagery from a gamut of high and low populist sources; from the gothic fairy tale to contemporary cartoon imagery, acknowledging historical influences along the way. Through contemporary materials, the artists express a joy of making, often playfully evoking ideas centred on our perception of time and place.
Tailsliding is concerned with the fleeting nature of history. Of what went before, and how these events alter our perceptions of place and self in the present. These concerns are reflected through the exhibition title – a skateboarding term for a difficult trick. Art has many parallels with street culture. Transient in nature, erased, written over and superseded by new styles, new names, new colours. Street graffiti recognises history through the places it is written, the act of writing being both an assertion of an individual and a tribute to those that have gone before. It has its own language.
Likewise, Tailsliding demonstrates that the languages of painting and sculpture are far from safe options - that they are capable of taking on an extraordinary new direction in the hands of these young practitioners.
The exhibition toured to:
2 October - 2 November 2001 Bergen Centre for Contemporary Art, Norway
23 November 2001 – 13 January 2002 Vilnius Centre of Contemporary Art, Lithuania
25 January – 3 March 2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallin, Estonia
19 March – 12 May 2002 Brno House of Arts, Czech Republic
June – July 2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Summer 2002 New Museum of Modern Art, Salamanca, Spain
Autumn 2002 Centre of Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
November 2002 – February 2003 Krakow Bunkier Sztuki, Poland
An illustrated catalogue http://www.artspublications.britishcouncil.org accompanied the exhibition, with interview texts by curator Stephen Hepworth and Colin Ledwith. The catalogue is available from Cornerhouse Publications For further information please contact Louise Wright |
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