SUSAN COLLIS：Twice Removed

开幕时间：2009年12月10日 20：00
展览时间：2009年12月10日-2010年2月6日
画廊地址：Galería Espacio Mínimo,Doctor Fourquet, 17, E-28012 Madrid ,Spain
联系电话：34 91 467 6156

    Espacio Minimo Gallery presents British artist SUSAN COLLIS’s first solo show in Spain. COLLIS’s installation was recently included in the “Frame” section at FRIEZE Art Fair in London, and has been commissioned to create the image for the next edition of THE ARMORY SHOW in New York.
Twice Removed, is the exhibition title chosen by the artist, a clear reference to her working process in which, making use of precious and valuable materials, she recreates humble and discarded objects. In her practice SUSAN COLLIS deploys a kind of camouflage, a game of illusion and confusion that turns her projects into formal and conceptual re-workings of the idea of trompe-l’oeil. First impressions would make us think we are looking at the remnants of a dismantled exhibition; wall plugs, bent screws, broken pieces of wood with nails sticking out of them that are covered in paint and ridden with woodworm, dirty floors and walls, stained bits of cloth, etc. Upon closer inspection we find the plugs are made from coral or turquoise, the screws and nails are made of gold or platinum, the drips of paint are in fact mother-of-pearl, the worm-holes are small gems, the blue paint on a timber frame turns out to be incrusted lapis lazuli, and the stains on the cloth are delicately embroidered.