exhibition

Sideshow

04.Sep.08 - 28.Sep.08
Thu-Sun 11-6 or by appt

Gallery Primo Alonso
395-397 Hackney Road
London E2 8PP
020 7033 3678 / 07939 580 247
info@primoalonso.com
www.primoalonso.com
Tube Bethnal Green; BR Cambridge Heath, Hackney / Bethnal Green

Gallery Primo Alonso is delighted to present Sideshow. An exhibition of new work and collaborative projects by nine artists with widely differing practices. Sideshow examines the role of the artist as the many-faceted entertainer, be it freak, magician, daredevil or fortune teller, exploring the relationship between artist and audience and examining the complications implicit in this ‘them and us’ scenario.

While one section of the gallery will display the artist’s individual practices, the other will be given over as an experimental space for artistic dialogue. Here, working together for the first time, they will consider their roles as members of the sideshow. The nature of the collaboration, its final form and the ‘stage’ that it is presented on is an unknown quantity and will vary from one set of collaborators to the next, rotating weekly throughout the exhibition run for the delectation of the gallery visitor.

Lisa Ivory’s abject and pitiful aberrations will be paired with Lee Maelzer’s unsettling visions. David Holland, David Ben White and Gabriela Talavera practices promise to clash in a cacophony of flesh, structure and ridicule. Hyo Myoung Kim and Taryn Takahashi will push their obsessive logics to a new level while Alex Gough and Bethany Murray grasp for the untouchable through their painting and photography.