Review: Dark Nature
The previously peripatetic Poppy Sebire has a permanent location in an airy former church hall near the Jerwood Space from this, her fourth show, onwards. Danish-based gallery artist James Aldridge has curated an Anglo-Scandinavian group examination of the darker aspects of humanity as filtered through natural processes. I like the circle of double decay with hidden black metal darkness orchestrated by the Swedish artist Roger Andersson. What looks at first like a set of delicate sepia drawings of plants, together with a small and apparently unrelated wooden statue, turns out to be images mad with the rust cleaned from the old tools which Andersson collected in order to carve the statue. A very close examination of the drawings also reveals images insinuated into the detail, such as the goat's head in the sunflower illustrated above. Beautifully convoluted crepuscularity.
| Review Date | 12 Oct 2010 12:24 |
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The circle of double decay with hidden black metal darkness orchestrated by the Swedish artist Roger Andersson |
