Graham Hudson
28 Feb - 05 Apr 2009
Opening February 28th 2009, 7.00-9.00 p.m.
Two years after his first solo show in Italy, Graham Hudson returns to MONITOR's new premises with new series of sculptures and a monumental installation: The Ruins.
The result of two weeks accumulation of industrial materials, and stratification result in this large fragile installation made of scaffold, pallets, ladders, strip-lights and a series of turntables that flash into life for one second at a time, creating a new and ever changing score. The work is a fusion of architecture and theatre, equally a sculpture and a sound work, a bridge between the landscape of the environment and that of the psyche. The Ruins takes up one of the gallery's two rooms.
The other room functions as a kind of antithesis to the The Ruins, displaying a series of more intimate pieces, here the provided light comes from a rotating light box in the work ; The look of the future (The 80,s ) - stripped of its advertising content it creates a serene atmosphere, delicately propped against it a decommissioned Fruit machine whose guts of jackpot signs, cash trays and broken glass lay scattered across the floor.
The other two works on display Industrial Revolution (8.34 secs) and The justification for political authority, demonstrate Hudson's work to be becoming increasingly racked with tensions and a sense of equilibrium, expressing "the vibration of challenge on the verge of a collapse" (A. Antolini) - a precarious series of impossible balancing acts that, ultimately, through a mysterious alchemical composition, appear to breathe life into matter itself.
Monitors new large space is able for the first time to present the two inter-linked strands of Hudons research. The large constructions which require extensive space, logistics and materials creating a visceral experience, alongside the studio based works which focus on a simplicity of materials and construction. Presented together the works show a commitment to the materials of the everyday - industrial and domestic, the works are alive with the making action of the artist, combining the delicate with the brutal, both a traditional enquiry into the nature of the artwork and the politics of our society.
Born in 1977, Graham Hudson lives and works in London.
Solo Shows:
2009 Zinger Presents, Amsterdam (upcoming); 2009 Monitor, Rome; 2008 Jan Cunen Museum, Oss, The Netherlands; 2007, LISTE Basel, Zinger Presents
Group Shows:
2010 Newspeak, Saatchi Gallery, London (upcoming); 2009 Ctl Alt Shift, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (upcoming); 2008 Material Presence, 176/Zabludowicz Collection, London; 2008 6 of 1: Live Art Performance, Camden Art Centre, London.
Hudsons own website portfolio is online at http://web.mac.com/grahamhudson
Two years after his first solo show in Italy, Graham Hudson returns to MONITOR's new premises with new series of sculptures and a monumental installation: The Ruins.
The result of two weeks accumulation of industrial materials, and stratification result in this large fragile installation made of scaffold, pallets, ladders, strip-lights and a series of turntables that flash into life for one second at a time, creating a new and ever changing score. The work is a fusion of architecture and theatre, equally a sculpture and a sound work, a bridge between the landscape of the environment and that of the psyche. The Ruins takes up one of the gallery's two rooms.
The other room functions as a kind of antithesis to the The Ruins, displaying a series of more intimate pieces, here the provided light comes from a rotating light box in the work ; The look of the future (The 80,s ) - stripped of its advertising content it creates a serene atmosphere, delicately propped against it a decommissioned Fruit machine whose guts of jackpot signs, cash trays and broken glass lay scattered across the floor.
The other two works on display Industrial Revolution (8.34 secs) and The justification for political authority, demonstrate Hudson's work to be becoming increasingly racked with tensions and a sense of equilibrium, expressing "the vibration of challenge on the verge of a collapse" (A. Antolini) - a precarious series of impossible balancing acts that, ultimately, through a mysterious alchemical composition, appear to breathe life into matter itself.
Monitors new large space is able for the first time to present the two inter-linked strands of Hudons research. The large constructions which require extensive space, logistics and materials creating a visceral experience, alongside the studio based works which focus on a simplicity of materials and construction. Presented together the works show a commitment to the materials of the everyday - industrial and domestic, the works are alive with the making action of the artist, combining the delicate with the brutal, both a traditional enquiry into the nature of the artwork and the politics of our society.
Born in 1977, Graham Hudson lives and works in London.
Solo Shows:
2009 Zinger Presents, Amsterdam (upcoming); 2009 Monitor, Rome; 2008 Jan Cunen Museum, Oss, The Netherlands; 2007, LISTE Basel, Zinger Presents
Group Shows:
2010 Newspeak, Saatchi Gallery, London (upcoming); 2009 Ctl Alt Shift, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (upcoming); 2008 Material Presence, 176/Zabludowicz Collection, London; 2008 6 of 1: Live Art Performance, Camden Art Centre, London.
Hudsons own website portfolio is online at http://web.mac.com/grahamhudson