exhibition

Tobias Buche

31.Oct.07 - 14.Dec.07
Wed-Sat 11-6 or by appt

Store
27 Hoxton St
London N1 6LP
020 7729 8171
info@storegallery.co.uk
www.storegallery.co.uk
Tube Old Street; Bus 242, 243, 149, 67, 26, 141, Shoreditch / Hoxton

Tobias Buche
31 Oct — 14 Dec 2007

For this exhibition at Store, Tobias Buche has worked on-site to install a translucent maze of overlapping storyboards. The work consists of collections of drawings, formal studies by the artist, personal photographs, newspaper clippings, found images from the internet, computer prints, photo-copies and other vernacular paper mapped onto clear, free-standing acrylic walls. Many of the images are easily recognizable fragments of personal, cultural and political life: snapshots, ghost rider cars, the sketch released by the McCann family of an unknown man carrying a child, Francis Bacon’s ‘Study After Velasquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X’, a portrait of Jerry Adams as a young man. The images signify an interest in counter cultures, in marginal and controversial ideologies. For some images the source remains unknown, asking that the viewer free-associate. The complex arrangement is deliberately complicated, yet seemingly random, and without a storyline the meanings overlap and motives blur. Tobias Buche’s emotive assemblage triggers memories in the viewer who cannot help but come up with their own connections and narrative