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| Adam Latham |
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Born Lancaster 1981
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| 关于此艺术家 |
Are You Our Missing Winner?
Adam Latham
TAKE COURAGE GALLERY
388 New Cross Road
London
13/3/09 - 19/3/09
P.V. Thursday 12th March 2009 6:00pm
Take Courage proudly presents Adam Latham’s new solo exhibition, Are you our missing winner? The exhibition comprises of an installation in which the walls of the gallery space are covered by brightly coloured shimmer curtains, gently swaying in the breeze created by an oscillating fan. The motion created by the fan is accentuated by a soundtrack of instrumental versions of songs from the 1949 musical South Pacific, re-recorded by exotica group The Surfmen in the early 1960s. The central focus of the exhibition is a separate panel of purple shimmer curtains set away from the wall slightly. Autonomous from the surrounding curtains the panel becomes an object in its own right somewhere between a stage backdrop and a canvas. The fan and a congratulatory bouquet of flowers also act as sculptural objects breaking up the space of the exhibition.
The title of the exhibition, with its lure of the possibility of personal gain, sets the scene for two new poster-drawings in the style of vintage holiday advertisements inviting the viewer to ‘be a winner in Hawaii’ or suggesting that ‘If you don’t like where you live you should move’. Through evocation of ideas of leisure, aspiration and sensory indulgence as manifested in a hallucinatory exotic environment, Latham examines the complex mechanics connecting fantasy and consumerism. The pictorial-symbolic logic of advertising is shown to become surreal or uncanny when divorced from its commercial function.
Latham’s work is endearingly humorous and grimly repulsive in equal measure. It takes on a broad range of source material: adverts, cartoons, propaganda, as well as the work of artists as diverse as Archimbaldo, Gauguin and Robert Crumb. In his referencing of examples of kitsch, pop and folk culture, Latham looks at how they are uprooted and mythologized within the contemporary liberal pluralist hegemony. The work unearths what is repressed in these present-day appropriations: currents of fear and desire that come to life as obscene, grotesque and taboo imagery.
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Nicetits Shameabouttheface
2005 ink on paper 40x60cm |
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Hut
2005 Gloss on Board 183x183cm |
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Heather
2006 ink on paper 60 x 80 cm |
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We Gat Binanas
2008 ink and watercolour on paper 42 x 60 |
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If You Dont Like Where You Live You Should Move
2009 ink and Watercolour on paper 42x 60 cm |
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Ambition's F' Them what Can Afford It
2008 ink and Watercolour on paper 30 x 40 cm |
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Holiday Man
2008 coloured pencil on paper 60x84cm |
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Be A Winner In Hawaii
2009 ink and Watercolour on paper 50x65cm |
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Put It Out
2008 watercolour on paper 50 x 40 cm |
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If Y' Can't Fight Good Fight Dirty
2007 ink and watercolour on paper 40 x 60 cm |
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Make Poverty History(Burn The Bastards)
2008 Poster 100x150cm |
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Sulphur Blue
2008 Ink and watercolour on Paper 60 x 60 cm |
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A Godless And Miserable Lump of Rock
2008 Ink and watercolour on Paper 42 x 60 cm |
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Arrietta
2008 ink on paper 60 x 84 cm |
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desserted hut
2006 gloss and fairy lights on board 183 x 183 cm |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
Adam Latham
Born Lancaster, Lancashire, 1981. Lives and works in London.
Education
2003 – 2005 Painting student, Royal College of Art, London
2000 – 2003 BA(Hons) in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London
1999 – 2000 BTEC Diploma in Art Foundation
Blackpool and the Fylde College
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Are You Our Missing Winner, Take Courage, London
2006 The Lights Are On But There’s Nobody Home, One Small Step, London.
Group Exhibitions
2009 ‘Rank’ Picturing the social order 1516-2009, Leeds Art Gallery.
2008 Culture Clash, The Working Rooms, London
The Future Can wait, London
Inaugural Show, Ibid Projects temporary space, Hoxton Square, London
‘A Modest Proposal’, N.G.C.A., Sunderland
Command and Control, Standpoint Gallery, London
The Painting Room, Transition Gallery, London
2007 Golden Fluffer, Transition Gallery, London
Saatchi Online room at Zoo Art Fair, London
Stick Stamp Fly, Gasworks, London.
Jerwood contemporary painters 2007 London, Cardiff, Salford.
What is it? , I-cabin, Wysing art’s Cambridge.---
Group, W.S. Bartlett’s Gallery, London.
2006 Posters exhibition, i-Cabin, Zoo Art Fair, London.
East international, Norwich Gallery, Norwich.
2005 Ich Bin Eine Sachenaufschiesse, i-Cabin, London.
Black History Month Part One, UWE, Bristol.
Invasions of Piquancy, Rove, Hoxton Square, London.
SV05, Studio Voltaire, 1a Nelsons Row, London.
Young Masters, 148a Saint John’s Street, London.
2004 Chamber Pot Now, Chambers Gallery, Long Lane, London.
PowerClapyourhandsSucker!, Chambers Gallery, Long Lane, London.
2003 Tarts Eggs, 10 Vyner Street, former Nylon space, London.
Awards and Prizes
2005 The Fatima and Faiza H Alkazzi Painting Prize, Royal College of Art.
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| 未来的展览 |
Rank: picturing the social order 1516–2009" runs at Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow from Saturday 14 February until Sunday 26 April 2009
Are You Our Missing Winner?
Adam Latham
TAKE COURAGE GALLERY
388 New Cross Road
London
13/3/09 - 19/3/09
P.V. Thursday 12th March 2009 6:00pm
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