Diann Bauer
01 Feb - 12 Mar 2006
DIANN BAUER
"bludgeonerator"
1 February to 12 March 2006
Wednesday - Sunday 13.00 - 18.00 hrs
Opening 31 January 19.00-21.00 hrs
The Showroom is delighted to present a newly commissioned, large-scale installation by London-based artist Diann Bauer.
Diann Bauer deploys the attraction of violent images from a number of cultures to create large-scale paintings and installations. The integration of diverse visual styles in Bauer's work generates a sense of confusion and dissolution between space, object and subject, and leaves us trying to decipher a narrative that seems graspable, but is just out of reach. Combining source material from nineteenth century Japanese woodcuts, European Baroque painting and experimental contemporary architecture, Bauer situates the viewer within a swirling visually complex representation of space, time and movement.
Since graduating from Goldsmiths MA Fine Art course in 1999, Diann Bauer's work has received significant national and international interest. It has been included in high profile group shows such as Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale 2, and New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Diann Bauer has made solo projects for the Fine Art University of Hanoi and Vamiali's, Athens: her project for The Showroom will be her first solo show in a publicly funded London gallery. This is a significant opportunity to see a major new body of work by this exciting young artist.
© Diann Bauer
"bludgeonerator"
1 February to 12 March 2006
Wednesday - Sunday 13.00 - 18.00 hrs
Opening 31 January 19.00-21.00 hrs
The Showroom is delighted to present a newly commissioned, large-scale installation by London-based artist Diann Bauer.
Diann Bauer deploys the attraction of violent images from a number of cultures to create large-scale paintings and installations. The integration of diverse visual styles in Bauer's work generates a sense of confusion and dissolution between space, object and subject, and leaves us trying to decipher a narrative that seems graspable, but is just out of reach. Combining source material from nineteenth century Japanese woodcuts, European Baroque painting and experimental contemporary architecture, Bauer situates the viewer within a swirling visually complex representation of space, time and movement.
Since graduating from Goldsmiths MA Fine Art course in 1999, Diann Bauer's work has received significant national and international interest. It has been included in high profile group shows such as Expanded Painting, Prague Biennale 2, and New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Diann Bauer has made solo projects for the Fine Art University of Hanoi and Vamiali's, Athens: her project for The Showroom will be her first solo show in a publicly funded London gallery. This is a significant opportunity to see a major new body of work by this exciting young artist.
© Diann Bauer