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Rowena Hughes, Eddie Peake, Jean
Charles de Quillacq
20th November - 18th December, 2010
Private View: 18th November, 6 - 9pm
Rod Barton Gallery, London EC1
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Flag-like, a red crest thrusting from green head and beak made
of two triangles, the rooster on Kelloggs Corn Flakes is representative
of so much more than the small feathered creature with a loud
call. And cleaner too - there is something a little obscene about
their fleshy red combs and flaccid wattles. Birds make great
symbols; freedom, peace, and here - farm fresh vigour, a healthy
diet and prompt morning wake up calls. Words will not do, we
need a cock to immediately reveal the Sunshine that was missing
from our morning.
Eddie Peake’s paintings, sculptures and prints interrogate
the slippages in meaning that occur when things are made explicit.
Apparently straightforward visual statements employ an array
of familiar and quotidian languages, yet are acutely personal.
Appropriating mass-produced images by the simplest of gestures
in high-octane colours, his works seem preoccupied by the autobiographical
- the surface being a pretext for the internal.
Rowena Hughes applies geometric forms to found materials in a
restrained play of evocatively stylish printed matter and mathematical
absolutes. Recent work develops from a fascination with Penrose
tiling patterns -a complex geometric tessellation that uses two
diamond shapes that can extend into infinity without ever creating
a regular, repeating, symmetrical pattern. For The Split Penrose
Series, Hughes has developed a printing method that allows for
chance compositions, querying the gap between the logical and
the inadvertent.
Jean Charles de Quillacq’s approach is more reckless,
his incongruous installations are blatant scams with depth and
purpose. Reproduced 2D printed images of wooden
surfaces (or veneers) are skewered onto semi-upturned office tables, which in
turn become odd tableaux when displayed as a balancing act between a real object
and an object of representation. This pared down aesthetic is either a ploy or
a distraction, asking the viewer to suspend belief when in their presence.
This exhibition of works on paper opens on 18th November 6 - 9pm.
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