Alex Dordoy
26 Feb - 26 Mar 2011
ALEX DORDOY
Upstairs at The Modern Institute
26 February - 26 March 2011
The Modern Institute is pleased to announce its second gallery exhibition of work by Alex Dordoy. The show contains work made in the last six months while Dordoy has been resident at De Ateliers studio programme in Amsterdam.
Producing work that’s in scale with the human body, Dordoy’s works hold and exude energy. Made and remade, Dordoy’s work operates at the threshold of completeness and retains the potential for change and destruction.
Headbox is constructed from two plaster paintings bearing photocopy-transfers of barely legible drawings of hippies and counter-culture dropouts. After being deemed failed paintings by Dordoy he destroyed them, reconstructing them with a frame to make the sculpture. By shifting the focus to backs of the paintings, the structure compels viewers to peer in.
The small plaster pieces Folded, Unfolded, Sunk and Scanned 1, 2 and 3 take their shape from the shape of an unfolded paper aeroplane. The process of folding and unfolding the cardboard mimics the change of the plaster from liquid to solid and from a two-dimensional sheet of paper to an aerodynamic structure. As with Headbox, the surfaces of the works also bear photocopy transfers. Untitled, 2011 is a plaster table; initially an ∞ (infinity symbol), the sign was then broken and reformed into a new symbol, one which is ambiguous yet somehow hopeful. I am falling apart depicts a page from a medieval manuscript of monks, undertaking alchemical experiments. Again made of plaster, the surface of this work is coated in aluminium powder.
Alex Dordoy is currently completing De Atelier Studio Programme in Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Grimm, Amsterdam 2010 and Young Scottish Painters/What You See Is Where You’re At, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He has also exhibited at Collective Gallery (2008). He graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2007 and is based in Amsterdam.
Upstairs at The Modern Institute
26 February - 26 March 2011
The Modern Institute is pleased to announce its second gallery exhibition of work by Alex Dordoy. The show contains work made in the last six months while Dordoy has been resident at De Ateliers studio programme in Amsterdam.
Producing work that’s in scale with the human body, Dordoy’s works hold and exude energy. Made and remade, Dordoy’s work operates at the threshold of completeness and retains the potential for change and destruction.
Headbox is constructed from two plaster paintings bearing photocopy-transfers of barely legible drawings of hippies and counter-culture dropouts. After being deemed failed paintings by Dordoy he destroyed them, reconstructing them with a frame to make the sculpture. By shifting the focus to backs of the paintings, the structure compels viewers to peer in.
The small plaster pieces Folded, Unfolded, Sunk and Scanned 1, 2 and 3 take their shape from the shape of an unfolded paper aeroplane. The process of folding and unfolding the cardboard mimics the change of the plaster from liquid to solid and from a two-dimensional sheet of paper to an aerodynamic structure. As with Headbox, the surfaces of the works also bear photocopy transfers. Untitled, 2011 is a plaster table; initially an ∞ (infinity symbol), the sign was then broken and reformed into a new symbol, one which is ambiguous yet somehow hopeful. I am falling apart depicts a page from a medieval manuscript of monks, undertaking alchemical experiments. Again made of plaster, the surface of this work is coated in aluminium powder.
Alex Dordoy is currently completing De Atelier Studio Programme in Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Grimm, Amsterdam 2010 and Young Scottish Painters/What You See Is Where You’re At, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He has also exhibited at Collective Gallery (2008). He graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2007 and is based in Amsterdam.