Sam Porritt
8 October – 5 November 2005
Private View: Saturday 8 October 6-8pm
This will be the first solo exhibition in LA by the emerging British artist Sam Porritt. Porritt, who recently gained his MA from the Royal Academy Schools, London, works in paint and plaster to create head-like sculptural forms with a talismanic or totemic quality.
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David Burrows and Bob & Roberta Smith
POPNOSIS
12 November – 17 December 2005
Private View: Saturday 12 November
Chung King Project is pleased to announce, for the second exhibition at the new gallery, a collaboration between David Burrows and Bob and Roberta Smith.
Popnosis, will be David Burrows and Bob and Roberta Smith’s first collaborative project in the USA. Together the artists will use the formal devices of intense colour, abstraction, scale, and the over-loading of information to exert an hypnotic charge upon the exhibition’s audience. The exhibition will present Bob and Roberta Smith's text panels 'I BELIEVE IN PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA', 'LEFT IS THE NEW RIGHT', 'BOTICELLI SUCKS', alongside Burrow's foam wall text works 'The Modern Spirit is Never Again', 'The Spirit has Eyes Like Almonds','The Modern Spirit is Bee-sting Lips' and the pure formal overload of mirror-works such as 'Total Blam Blam'. Popnosis employs the aesthetic of pop in the service of formal hypnosis.
If this is the works' affect, their subject is the quasi-religious, evangelical communication of a system of beliefs, a hierarchy of values, a redressing of the rules of the game of art. Popnosis declares the possibility of spiritual and epistemological change through art.
Alongside the wall pieces in the show, the artists will fabricate two sculptural works in the space. A barricade will combine found debris from the city of Los Angeles with painted panels and fabricated elements in an alchemical work which transforms the base material of the city through slogans, collage and ephemera specific to the time and place of its making into a message for a civilisation in crisis. Alongside it will rest a floor sculpture in the form of a shrine.
Popnosis will be the newest development in the history of collaborative exhibitions, projects, performances and events between David Burrows and Bob and Roberta Smith, which began in the days of BANK, and have resulted in Dub'le-in TROODER, Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Le Ecole de Burrows et Bob Smith, The Trade Apartment London, Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Enough Swan for All, Victoria and Albert Museum, London and their exhibition at Galerie Praz-Delavallarde, Paris.
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