Eline McGeorge
26 Apr - 31 May 2008
© Eline McGeorge
Landscape and Constellation 2, 2007
Water colour, pencil, photographic computer print, aluminum tape on paper
41 x 29 cm, Framed: 48 x 36 cm
Landscape and Constellation 2, 2007
Water colour, pencil, photographic computer print, aluminum tape on paper
41 x 29 cm, Framed: 48 x 36 cm
ELINE McGEORGE
"Travelling Doubles 2"
It is a pleasure to invite you to the opening of Eline McGeorge’s solo show Travelling Doubles 2 in the gallery Friday April 25th from 5-8 pm. The exhibition period is April 26th – May 31st.
Eline McGeorge is engaged with the act of drawing. Presenting collages with coloured tape, photo print and pencil; crayon or stain on sculptures of wood; framed pencil drawings, watercolours and an animation of drawings, McGeorge unfolds her drawing though different media. Drawing has traditionally been used for sketching - for the process of creating a piece. McGeorge takes advantage of these exact same qualities. Not meant as a sketch for something else but to underline process, transformation and the non-stable.
She has altered the gallery space by setting up a wall which also functions as a screen. It even functions as a sheet of paper. Projected onto it, are 400 animated drawings that originate from the same sheet of A4. Each drawing has been scanned, then erased, filled in and scanned anew, letting each frame be constructed from the destruction of the one before. The drawings are given a temporality, a narration unfolded in time and through transformation.
Time, movement, scale and space are concepts that are found in all of McGeorge’s works. The sculptures of wood resemble architectural models in human scale. They vary from every angle, head in different directions like movements, caught in a glimpse of time. Inverted perspectives and tension between surfaces and depths are part of the drawings, prints and collages, where Modernist architecture meets landscapes. News paper clippings, film stills and Norwegian tourist brochures from the 60s are juxtaposed to McGeorge’s own photographs. The blended spaces, perspectives and temporalities form a notion of estrangement and discontinuity. An assumption that space is dissolvable, multifaceted and ephemeral. Just as the title implies, Travelling Doubles is a displacement of the self on a journey in time and space.
McGeorge’s works are related to the historical avantgarde’s Cubism, Futurism and Russian Constructivism, as well as the later Deconstructivism. Still, the works point forward by reassembling things differently and making something new out of the materials, situations and ideas that are already here.
McGeorge’s abstract scapes and topographies have been exhibited at e.g. Fotogalleriet, Olso 2007, Hollybush Gardens, London 2007, Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Copenhagen 2007, Stenersen Museet, Oslo 2006, Momentum, Moss 2006 and P.S.1., New York 2002. Kirkhoff included her work in the group show Form Matters, May - June 2007. Eline McGeorge holds a Master of Fine Art from Goldsmith’s College, London, and has tended both the National College of Fine Art, Bergen, and Städelschule, Frankfurt. She was born 1970 in Norway and now lives and works in London and Oslo.
"Travelling Doubles 2"
It is a pleasure to invite you to the opening of Eline McGeorge’s solo show Travelling Doubles 2 in the gallery Friday April 25th from 5-8 pm. The exhibition period is April 26th – May 31st.
Eline McGeorge is engaged with the act of drawing. Presenting collages with coloured tape, photo print and pencil; crayon or stain on sculptures of wood; framed pencil drawings, watercolours and an animation of drawings, McGeorge unfolds her drawing though different media. Drawing has traditionally been used for sketching - for the process of creating a piece. McGeorge takes advantage of these exact same qualities. Not meant as a sketch for something else but to underline process, transformation and the non-stable.
She has altered the gallery space by setting up a wall which also functions as a screen. It even functions as a sheet of paper. Projected onto it, are 400 animated drawings that originate from the same sheet of A4. Each drawing has been scanned, then erased, filled in and scanned anew, letting each frame be constructed from the destruction of the one before. The drawings are given a temporality, a narration unfolded in time and through transformation.
Time, movement, scale and space are concepts that are found in all of McGeorge’s works. The sculptures of wood resemble architectural models in human scale. They vary from every angle, head in different directions like movements, caught in a glimpse of time. Inverted perspectives and tension between surfaces and depths are part of the drawings, prints and collages, where Modernist architecture meets landscapes. News paper clippings, film stills and Norwegian tourist brochures from the 60s are juxtaposed to McGeorge’s own photographs. The blended spaces, perspectives and temporalities form a notion of estrangement and discontinuity. An assumption that space is dissolvable, multifaceted and ephemeral. Just as the title implies, Travelling Doubles is a displacement of the self on a journey in time and space.
McGeorge’s works are related to the historical avantgarde’s Cubism, Futurism and Russian Constructivism, as well as the later Deconstructivism. Still, the works point forward by reassembling things differently and making something new out of the materials, situations and ideas that are already here.
McGeorge’s abstract scapes and topographies have been exhibited at e.g. Fotogalleriet, Olso 2007, Hollybush Gardens, London 2007, Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Copenhagen 2007, Stenersen Museet, Oslo 2006, Momentum, Moss 2006 and P.S.1., New York 2002. Kirkhoff included her work in the group show Form Matters, May - June 2007. Eline McGeorge holds a Master of Fine Art from Goldsmith’s College, London, and has tended both the National College of Fine Art, Bergen, and Städelschule, Frankfurt. She was born 1970 in Norway and now lives and works in London and Oslo.