Andrew Grassie, Installation: Banks Violette, 2006. Image courtesy of Maureen Paley London.
Andrew Grassie, Installation: Dick Evans, 2006. Image courtesy of Maureen Paley London.
Andrew Grassie's exhibition at Tate Britain last year (as part of the Art Now series) saw him rigorously tamper with the complexities of the gallery space. Prior to the exhibition there, he photographed every angle of the room at Tate Britain where his show was due to be held, while all the Turners, Stubbs and Picassos were still hanging on the walls. Having painted these photographs, the Old Masters were soon replaced with the new works--the pictures-within-pictures-within-pictures--and the room was transformed into a facsimile of itself, a parallel universe.
Grassie will develop these ideas of dimension and perception with his new set of works at Maureen Paley. He has documented every exhibition that has been installed at Paley's Bethnal Green premises over the past year, with the following as his mission statement:
'Install a series of paintings at the gallery depicting the year's previous exhibitions during their installation. Each painting should hang at the very spot from which the image was taken enabling the viewer to compare views of the space.'
With this new exhibition, Grassie will fix his sight on his contemporaries, including Dick Evans and Banks Violette, as he tries to delve deeper and deeper into the issue of the gallery space's artistic value, and the question of perception.
Andrew Grassie
25 November 2006 - 21 January 2007
Maureen Paley Gallery,
21 Herald Street
London E2 6JT
T: +44 (0)20 7729 4112
www.maureenpaley.com
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