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Ben Wheele
Antiquity Bonk

  • date line one: 10 March -
  • date line two: 8 April

***Exhibition still viewable by appointment.***

The Sunday Painter is pleased to announce the opening of Antiquity Bonk, a collection of new work by Brighton based artist Ben Wheele.

A disgusting ‘museum catalogue’ befriends me, slops some images all over my eyes. We’re playing a winking game together – each time I think of the word ‘antique’ I have to wink at him, and vice-versa. We think of so many antiques, it gets to the point we’re just closing our eyes now (I wink with both of my eyes).

 Eyes closed, I find a salute – I think it’s me, I’m saluting to a disease. I check the room again, something’s happened to my work, the prints have all gotten infected, sculptures, everything, even the room. Ruined!

 What type of disease is this anyway. Examining a print, I discover mucus or something, it’s awful, like a child doing a joke on my work. How embarrassing. ‘It’s the catalogue…’ I snarl.. ‘It’s all the catalogue’s fault!’ I grab the grotesque catalogue and rip out all of the pages.

 I examine the pages, so rococo in their death. It’s sad to kill something that elegant. I’ll die of the disease too soon, but it’s a humorous disease, like a cartoon or something. Lots of love, Ben x

Primo Anniversario
bubblebyte.org

  • date line one: 28 January -
  • date line two: 12 February

Oliver Sutherland, Rob Chavasse, Laurel Schwulst, Pascual Sisto, Sara Ludy, Duncan Malashock, Oregon Painting Society, Nicolas Sassoon, Sabrina Ratté

On the 27th of January 2012 bubblebyte.org will celebrate its first birthday.

To mark the anniversary, bubblebyte.org has teamed up with The Sunday Painter in Peckham to host a group exhibition of works by the diverse selection of artists who have had solo shows at bubblebyte.org in the past year.

The various spaces of The Sunday Painter will be explored and inhabited by multi-form practices, installations and digital synesthesia.

PRIMO ANNIVERSARIO includes installation work by Rob Chavasse, prints by Oliver Sutherland and Laurel Schwulst, digital atmospheres by Oregon Painting Society, Nicolas Sassoon and Duncan Malashock and video installations by Pascual Sisto, Sara Ludy and Sabrina Ratté.

As part of the show, The Sunday Painter website play host to a special web base creation by Nicolas Sassoon. View here: Tides, Flash Animation by Nicolas Sassoon, 2011.

Jesse Wine
Modern Tone

  • date line two: 15 January
  • date line one: 9 December -

The Sunday Painter Gallery is pleased to present Modern Tone, a solo exhibition of new work by London based artist Jesse Wine. Taking a medium-sized leaf from the 2010 Picasso ‘Mediterranean years’ exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery Britannia Street site, Jesse Wine has transformed the rather more modest sized Sunday Painter space into a museum style viewing chamber in which to experience, whilst edging around in a legally-complicit gap, a new body of sculptures and a one-off replica of Picasso’s 1951 painting Les Pigeonnes Perches the artist has had commissioned.

With the selection of sculptures that includes a faux-marble sagging bottom and a ceramic pot that seems to be alluding to some vague primitive culture sitting atop a colossal plinth alongside the cost-price Picasso replica an odd array of domesticated art-objects have been elevated to uneasy heights.

Pascual Sisto
PUSH / PULL

  • date line one: 15 September -
  • date line two: 2 October

Preview : 14 September 6 – 9 pm

The Sunday Painter is pleased to announce the first London exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Pascual Sisto, in conjuction with PAMI (Peckham artists Moving Image Festival). Push / Pull (my Luck is your Misfortune) is the title of Sisto’s 2006 video installation and consists of two opposing large scale projections depicting a vortex constructed entirely from lanes of approaching and retreating traffic. As with a lot of Sisto’s video work a seamless digital manipulation allows an impossible scenario to arise from the ordinary. Sisto’s treatments are highly astute; using symmetry and repetition he constructs contained environments in which the implausible is given, for a time, an ironic reality.

 

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Seconds

  • date line two: 15 july –
  • date line one: 21 august

The Sunday Painter is pleased to announce the launch of ‘Seconds’, a collection of new limited edition artworks from more than twenty previously exhibited artists and studio members celebrating a first year of exhibitions at 12-16 Blenheim Grove.

Proceeds from ‘Seconds’ will enable The Sunday Painter to continue its work in supporting artists through the exhibition programme, providing affordable studios and engaging with the local community through workshops and talks.

The term ‘Seconds’ stemming from ‘Factory seconds’ is used to describe goods that, whilst still being usable, do not meet the quality control standards of the manufacturer – A black leather sofa with a funny brown scuff on it, a speaker with a little tear in it or perhaps an apple with a slight bulge in one side. These small flaws make the products irregular and therefore not fit for the consumer who likes a standard level of quality and regularity in their goods. After all who wants furniture that looks soiled or to eat food that looks a funny shape. You could be forgiven then for mistaking ‘Seconds’, the title for this project, as having negative connotations.

Certain outlets, however, sell on ‘seconds’ at a discounted price for the more utilitarian consumer who doesn’t mind trading off the regularity of their products in order to get something on the cheap, which works fine- after all isn’t there a charm to a potato that looks a bit like the queen?

See the seconds page for more information and art works.

Camille

  • date line one: 21 April -
  • date line two: 15 May 2011

Artists: Alex Rathbone & Jill Mason

The Sunday Painter is pleased to announce a two-person exhibition, Camille, incorporating painting and sculpture with work from Alex Rathbone and Jill Mason.

The title for the show, Camille, is the name given to the ‘pleasure gelf’ (Genetically Engineered Life Form) that appears in an episode of Red Dwarf. Camille has the special ability to project to whom ever is looking at her the image of their perfect companion, Camille can’t control how she is perceived; the viewer is wholly responsibly for that. For instance when Cat looks at Camille he seems himself; he is the object of his own desire, when in fact Camille’s natural state takes the form of an overweight, phlegmy green blob.

The fantastical plays out within both artists practice. The work is born out of detritus; bits of wood, string and ephemeral musings are hoarded; arranged and disarranged, and endowed with a mysticism and sentiment that only the conjurer could conjure up. We see the manifestations but are also left in the dark; the personal dealings and intimate rituals behind the work out of touch.

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