exhibition

Amikam Toren / Kate Atkin, new works

Artists Amikam Toren, Kate Atkin

03.Oct.08 - 18.Oct.08
11am - 6pm

Squid and Tabernacle
65 Hanbury Street
London
London E1
info@squidandtabernacle.com
www.squidandtabernacle.com

In its inaugural exhibition, Squid & Tabernacle is pleased to present new works by
Kate Atkin and Amikam Toren.
Kate Atkin graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005 and has exhibited internationally since then, including solo exhibitions in London and New York. Her work is in a number of major international collections including The West Collection, The UBS Art Collection and The British Council. In finely detailed drawings and sculpture, Atkin manipulates photographs and literary references to create drawings and reliefs that are neither abstract nor figurative, and are isolated from their source material. Sea Pyramid (2008) demonstrates the distance and resonances between reference and object; a dark, imposing, apparently abstract form which protrudes into the gallery space from its position on the wall in exaggerated relief, while concealing its true identity. Accompanying this piece is a group of drawings, ambiguously suggestive of organic forms. Multi-disciplinary artist Amikam Toren has exhibited widely internationally since the 1960s, and has had recent solo exhibitions in Tel Aviv, London, Cologne and Paris. He was founding co-editor of Wallpaper in 1974. In Toren’s practice, the objects and actions or everyday life are processed and reinterpreted. His sculpture Fragile (2008) is a development from his series of ‘readymade prints’ appropriating the varied and ubiquitous semiotic language of the handling instructions found on cardboard packaging. Reinterpreted, these icons become a set of instructions for a sculpture.

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