4 April – 11 May 200
One in the Other is pleased to present an exhibition of new painting by Simon Linke, his first since his retrospective at Le Consortium, Dijon 2005 and his first in the UK for seven years. Linke is known for his paintings of the Ed Ruscha designed advertisement pages of Artforum, which he started making in 1986. He has featured in international exhibitions in both museums and commercial galleries including solo shows at Tony Shafrazi, NY, Lisson Gallery, London, Kohji Ogura, Nagoya, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, Franz Paludetto, Turin and Michael Janssen, Cologne. Group exhibitions of note include Venice Biennale, Objects for the Ideal Home, The Legacy of Pop Art, Serpentine Gallery, London and Everything that’s interesting is new, Deste Foundation, Athens.
Linke has continued painting Artforum advertisements, while periodically exploring editorial content and other publications as source material. His trademark application of paint, where brush-width lateral bars of blocked-in colour sit next to schematised graphic outlines, remains a distinctive icon of the work. The current series of paintings are on a one-to-one scale i.e. Artforum page size. Though retaining the same central branding methods and subject matter, the magazine advertisements have been transformed over time by new print media techniques and design and, as a result, the technical nature of the paintings has evolved with the complexity of imagery. Through the representation of the advertisements the work engages in the themes of fashion, business, taste and commodity as manifested in the art world and by extension society in general.
In many instances adverts are remade in series and with unscripted alterations. Sometimes they echo more closely the minimal layout adopted by the look of the early paintings, when title and typography were preferred over pictorial content. Made with dense and loosely applied paint, and juxtaposed with minute detail of imagery and miniscule text, the paintings contrast humour, scepticism and seriousness with a tradition of painterly sensuality.
Damien Hirst 2008
Oil on linen,
25 x 25cm
John Currin 2008
Oil on linen,
25 x 25cm
John Wesley 2007
Oil on linen,
25 x 25cm