Damien Roach
10 May - 30 Jun 2006
DAMIEN ROACH
"Departures"
T293 is pleased to announce the opening of the solo exhibition by Damien Roach (1980, Bromley, Kent, UK). The strength of Roach’s art lies in the fact that he breaks up the rules of culture, replacing its reference models and putting them together through a psychedelic though that creates a visionary art, made by sensations, which could be considered as a game intended to mix different styles and languages.
The first element of 'Departures' is a double slide projection of collages made on the computer which are the result of the merging of natural and artificial forms. The two projections, by their turn, are drenched in a rich orange light entering through the window glass, covered by a film.
His entire research is based on the attempt to re-order the word according o new criteria, without specific finalities, gathering together those fragments of sense that represent a scientific model of reality. One of his most frequent subjects is to draw a line between the perception of similarity in art, and simple observation of reality.
In this direction lies the second element of ‘Departures’, that consists of a small 'house of cards'
structure built from second-hand 12" vinyl records of Classical music, featuring photographs of landscapes on the sleeves. Fundamental is the relationship between the type of image and the music on the records. It reflects more in general on the whole of rules that are designed by humans to govern nature. Western Classical composition is based upon the idea of a strict organization of the chaotic phenomena of noise into an highly ordered form that we define as music. It is, in a sense, very similar to the activity of gardening or the selective framing of 'nature' that results in the photographs on the record sleeves.
"Departures"
T293 is pleased to announce the opening of the solo exhibition by Damien Roach (1980, Bromley, Kent, UK). The strength of Roach’s art lies in the fact that he breaks up the rules of culture, replacing its reference models and putting them together through a psychedelic though that creates a visionary art, made by sensations, which could be considered as a game intended to mix different styles and languages.
The first element of 'Departures' is a double slide projection of collages made on the computer which are the result of the merging of natural and artificial forms. The two projections, by their turn, are drenched in a rich orange light entering through the window glass, covered by a film.
His entire research is based on the attempt to re-order the word according o new criteria, without specific finalities, gathering together those fragments of sense that represent a scientific model of reality. One of his most frequent subjects is to draw a line between the perception of similarity in art, and simple observation of reality.
In this direction lies the second element of ‘Departures’, that consists of a small 'house of cards'
structure built from second-hand 12" vinyl records of Classical music, featuring photographs of landscapes on the sleeves. Fundamental is the relationship between the type of image and the music on the records. It reflects more in general on the whole of rules that are designed by humans to govern nature. Western Classical composition is based upon the idea of a strict organization of the chaotic phenomena of noise into an highly ordered form that we define as music. It is, in a sense, very similar to the activity of gardening or the selective framing of 'nature' that results in the photographs on the record sleeves.