Tony Taglianetti and Danielle Horn, the curator at the Brick Lane Gallery, have teamed up with young artist Abby Jackson to create a show bringing together an exciting host of international artists from the Saatchi Gallery's Your Gallery website, the second exhibition of work by Your Gallery artists to open in London this week.
With a recent focus on the figure and painting in the traditional sense, 'Lost & Found' seeks to reclaim the unfettered aesthetic beauty which an accomplished abstract work of art beholds. In contrast to such abstract works by Cate Maddy, Hugh McCarthy, Annie Lin, Diamantis Stagidis & Laurent Koller, a backdrop of sculpture featuring the worlk of artists Chongwoon Choi, Alexander Small and Hektor Mamet will unfold. The exhibition also presents photographs and video works by Antti Laitinen, Jef Bourgeau and Chris Clark.
According to the Brick Lane Gallery's press release, "'Lost & Found' is an exhibition in stark contrast to some of its contemporaries who like to conceptualise the conceptual; this exhibition won't add 'strap lines' to works of art." The aim behind the exhibition is to highlight the immense talent available online and to endorse the simplicity of art which 'really works as art - in other words, art that doesn't have to try too hard'.
LOST & FOUND
19 - 30 January 2007
The Brick Lane Gallery
196 Brick Lane
London E1 6SA
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www.thebricklanegallery.com
Antti Laitinen, Self Portrait on the Swamp, C-Type print
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