Summer Show

Tacita Dean, Callum Innes, Giuseppe Penone and Dayanita Singh

from the 6 July 2004

Tacita Dean's alabaster drawings are created using the natural grain of this soft and opaque rock. By subtly inscribing the random, organic lines Dean somehow exposes a hidden world of signs, meaning and stories within an apparently lifeless material.

Callum Innes' intimate watercolour paintings require a one-to-one examination by the viewer. He uses the sheer beauty of paint and the infinite subtleties of colour and texture to entice one into a longer look, seeking to slow down our customary response so that we begin to notice the little things that gives each work its particular identity.

Giuseppe Penone first achieved recognition for his work associated with the Arte Povera movement in Italy in the 1960s, in which artists worked using materials from daily life such as sand, earth, stones, fabric and newspapers. Penone often makes use of these simple materials in order to push the boundaries between art and nature. His drawings form part of a process of open-ended experimentation showing connections among all organic life.

Dayanita Singh's black and white photographs could be seen as a form of portraiture - of places rather than people, but just as expressive and individual. They depict a diverse range of interior spaces which have all, through time and association, developed a very distinctive character.

 

© 2004 Frith Street Gallery