Archive 2009-10
Alexis Harding
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:00:00 GMT
Harding has described his work as being made “within a set of limits that I can only discover by squeezing and pushing these limits to extremes: to present prosaic stuff (paint) in a moment of change and transformation. I want to subject painting to a specific singular force and allow one cohering structure to vanish while another emerges", (2004) and more recently (2007) "the work is deeply controlled yet somehow makes itself through failure and cancellation."
There is a continued exploration of control, failure and contingency in the making of the work, but the grid has been replaced with a single poured line which subsequently becomes broken, distorted and corporeal. The new series of Broken Line and Arrow paintings engender a deepening dialogue between the bodily act of painting and the reception of it.
Recent exhibitions in 2009 include solo shows, 'Bi-Product Depositories' at Mummery+Schnelle Gallery and 'Broken Lines', Marabini Gallery' and the group exhibition 'Getting Nowhere' at Galleria Gentili, Prato, Italy.