11th August – 3rd September 2011
Minor Revisions
Tenderpixel Gallery
curated by Marina Kassianidou
Rebecca Chalmers
Cadi Froehlich
Cristina Garrido
Andrea Muendelein,
Loizos Olympios,
Gali Timen
Marina Kassianidou
Tenderpixel is pleased to present the group exhibition ‘Minor Revisions’, curated by the artist Marina Kassianidou. The exhibition focuses on the use of found objects or images. Each artist presents work that results from the layering of the original object or image, with all its previous history and meanings, with the artist’s action. The artistic intervention, or whatever the artist does to each object, does not completely erase the object but rather revises it. In a sense, the found object and the artistic gesture come to work together. As such, meaning in these works is not produced in isolation from the world. Rather, the meanings produced are a combination of what was there with what was added, emphasizing overlaps and interconnectedness. The viewers are asked to look at the works closely and reconsider how they may be understood as both everyday objects/images and artworks.
The artists participating in the exhibition include Rebecca Chalmers, Cadi Froehlich, Cristina Garrido, Andrea Muendelein, Loizos Olympios, Gali Timen and Marina Kassianidou.
Chalmers makes intricate drawings on the inner surface of found envelopes. These drawings are informed by the existing patterns and colours on each envelope. As a result, the drawings sometimes partially blend in with the printed design. Froehlich presents a different type of drawing on a found side table. Her intervention, which is based on the passage of time, evokes past moments as well as potential future moments in which this side table might participate.
Garrido’s work focuses on ‘erasing’ existing information from found or purchased printed material. Her labour-intensive process of working raises questions concerning value and worthlessness. Muendelein presents a photography installation based on a collection of found photographs from 1900 depicting land- scapes, travel encounters and street scenes. By revisiting fragments from these private histories today, Muendelein’s work explores their resonance in the present.
Olympios photographs found footage, capturing the response of his digital camera to the TV monitor or the demise of scrambled low-resolution trailers from the Internet. The resulting captured image is transformed, leading to the undoing of film genres, the destruction of images, and the concealment or deconstruction of the depicted body. Timen has performed very simple and humorous actions to alter two found toys. Despite their simplicity, her actions manage to effectively revise the narrative associated with each toy, resulting in double or multiple meanings. Finally, Kassianidou has used found surfaces to create collages that partially disrupt existing patterns in space.
Tenderpixel is a unique space for promoting critical and conceptual work by emerging and mid-career artists. An artist-run space in Central London, Tenderpixel showcases new work by individual artists, curators & collectives. Acting as a project platform, programming includes talks, performances, workshops and an annual experimental film festival, Tenderflix. Tenderpixel’s programming generates an expansive network of international artists, & fosters opportunities for commissions, collections and museum acquisitions. Altering the way galleries conventionally represent via a roster of exclusive artists, Tenderpixel believes in constantly supporting new artists and projects.
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