Amikam Toren
11 Jan - 22 Feb 2014
Amikam Toren
Neither a Teapot or a Painting, 1979
mixed media
canvas: 46 x 61 cm, jar:14 x 8 x 8 cm, shelf: 170 x 15 x 2 cm
Neither a Teapot or a Painting, 1979
mixed media
canvas: 46 x 61 cm, jar:14 x 8 x 8 cm, shelf: 170 x 15 x 2 cm
AMIKAM TOREN
Neither A Teapot Nor A Painting
11 January – 22 February 2014
MOT INTERNATIONAL Brussels is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of Amikam Toren in Belgium.
The gallery exhibits key works from the artist’s practice, including the seminal Neither a Teapot Nor a Painting. Deliberately echoing René Magritte’s famous play on the paradoxes of imagery, “This Is Not a Pipe” (1929), the artist produced a painting of the titular teapot using its ground fragments as pigment. Displaying both the destroyed object and the painting side by side, the work is the first instance of the artist’s ‘tautological’ paintings, and represents a pivotal moment in his practice. The exhibition focuses on how
Toren continues to work with materials from destroyed ready-made objects which are resurrected as artworks, with a selection of paintings from his Reproductions series, and an example of the Stack sculptures.
A significant figure of British conceptual painting, Toren has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at The Serpentine Gallery, 1976, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1979, Chisenhale Gallery and Arnolfini, Bristol, 1991. Internationally, his work has been represented at the Paris Biennale, 1967, Venice Biennale, 1984, and Guangzhou Triennial, 2012, with recent exhibitions
including the John MooresPainting Prize, 2012, Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, 2011, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2009 and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2008.
Neither A Teapot Nor A Painting
11 January – 22 February 2014
MOT INTERNATIONAL Brussels is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition of Amikam Toren in Belgium.
The gallery exhibits key works from the artist’s practice, including the seminal Neither a Teapot Nor a Painting. Deliberately echoing René Magritte’s famous play on the paradoxes of imagery, “This Is Not a Pipe” (1929), the artist produced a painting of the titular teapot using its ground fragments as pigment. Displaying both the destroyed object and the painting side by side, the work is the first instance of the artist’s ‘tautological’ paintings, and represents a pivotal moment in his practice. The exhibition focuses on how
Toren continues to work with materials from destroyed ready-made objects which are resurrected as artworks, with a selection of paintings from his Reproductions series, and an example of the Stack sculptures.
A significant figure of British conceptual painting, Toren has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at The Serpentine Gallery, 1976, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1979, Chisenhale Gallery and Arnolfini, Bristol, 1991. Internationally, his work has been represented at the Paris Biennale, 1967, Venice Biennale, 1984, and Guangzhou Triennial, 2012, with recent exhibitions
including the John MooresPainting Prize, 2012, Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, 2011, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2009 and Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2008.