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Anna Bialobroda - New Paintings - 03.07-01.08.1999
 
 

Anna Bialobroda is a New York artist who has exhibited widely in the US and Europe. For her first London show she chose to use small painted wooden blocks and panels, each in a different size and thickness, to form loosely connected ensembles, like a wall relief or a three dimensional comic strip. The figurative subject matter, all photographic images taken from different contexts and partially submerged by paint, is presented in such a way as to resist any narrative coherence.

The persons depicted may be engaged in familiar, ordinary activities but their relationship with each other is defined only by spatial suggestions of the panels, the wooden background, or some language game initiated by titles such as "Through", "From", "Into". Thus several processes combine to act against the happy superficiality of the figures. A closer look shows that the eyes and mouths have been left exposed, revealing the "original", a print on a magazine page.

The wooden surface of the blocks assumes an appropriate setting, as the wood becomes a beach or a room, according to a purely associative context. Such artifices make these small scale paintings into witty and subtle comments on a number of issues, space and language, representation and content, technology and narrative, depth and surface, while making it look child's play.

Venue: 97-99 Sclater Street London E1-6HR

Dates: 3rd July - 1st August 1999 Wed - Sun 1 - 5pm, and by appointment

Opening: Saturday 3rd July 1999 7 - 10pm

Press contact: Alfred Camp 020-7729 9498
 
 

This exhibition is supported by; LR Brand cigarettes, London Gin Company, Greenleaf Hemp Lager and Solé