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CLAUSEN :: DE MENIS :: SCOTT :: THOMAS

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1 August - 2 September 2020

configurate ANDREW CLAUSEN I VA N D E M E N I S LAURA JANE SCOTT JON THOMAS 1 August - 2 September 2020

Additional works will be available during the exhibition.

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C O N F I G U R AT E Four invited artists, Andrew Clausen (The Netherlands), Ivan De Menis (Italy), Laura Jane Scott (London) and Jon Thomas (Swansea) will be presenting wall-based three-dimensional pieces. This is an exciting opportunity to showcase a different kind of work concerned with structural and threedimensional explorations, playful constructions and experiments in depth, shapes and surfaces.

Andrew Clausen (U.S.A.) began his artistic training in the cooperative studios of Art City in Southern California. From there he travelled to Italy where for 13 years he worked alongside master artisans and developed his craft into a tuned combination of conceptual ideas and refined use of materials.

Cast concrete and fabricated metals are his primary mediums which are used to form works that span between minimalist thought-provoking objects to engaging fabrications. He currently lives and works in the city of Arnhem, Netherlands.

Ivan De Menis (Italy), studied in the institute of Art in Vittorio Veneto and the Venice Academy of Fine Arts. He lives and works in the countryside of North Italy, close to Treviso. Ivan’s work, made of wooden panels, is of a deceptive simplicity of appearance. He uses materials such as polystyrene and airball, traditionally used for packaging, to create intimate, refined tridimensional art pieces.

The viewer is drawn in, allowed to see the building process behind the work as if looking at its beating heart and witnessing the unravelling of its beauty.

Laura Jane Scott’s (UK) desire for formal simplicity through geometric form and striking use of colour has enabled her to produce a body of work where painting explores a model of architectural form and where the colour literally embodies a physical structure. The resulting work is a hybrid of painting and sculpture; a refined visual vocabulary of form and colour. Laura lives and works in London (UK).

Jon Thomas is an artist & sculptor based in Swansea, South Wales (UK). He constructs free standing and wall based dimensional sculptures using a combination of contemporary and traditional materials from casting with plaster of Paris to thermoforming with industrial materials including acrylic sheet & EPS (polystyrene). John’s latest sculptures are constructed using a spontaneous substractive process of hand cutting dozens of geometrical shapes, stacking, balancing and finally glueing the individual forms to wooden boards before painting them. This recent, freer body of work reaches beyond some of his purer earlier examples, leaning more towards process art than pure minimalism.

ANDREW CLAUSEN

Untitled 19.08 Cast concrete and inkjet print transfer on resin-bonded canvas 30 x 24 x 2.5 cm

IPKW 2 Cast concrete and pigment transfer on resin-bonded canvas 30.5 x 24.5 x 2.5 cm

IPKW 1 :: Bouwput Cast concrete and pigment transfer on resin-bonded canvas 40 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm :: 24.2 x 18.5 x 2.5 cm

Untitled 19.06 Cast concrete and inkjet print transfer on resin-bonded canvas Daith 24 x 14 Hir x 2.5 cm Acrylic on board, 40 x 40cm

I VA N D E M E N I S

Tessera 1A9/y1 Mixed media on wooden panel, 24 x 17 cm Vestige Mixed media on wood, 60 x 60cm

Tessera 1A9/y3 Mixed media on wooden panel, 24 x17 cm

Retta 438/y1 Mixed media on wooden panel, 120 x 17 cm Tessera 1A9/6 Mixed media on wooden panel, 24 x17 cm

Tessera 1A9/y2 Mixed media on wooden panel, 24 x17 cm

LAURA JANE SCOTT

Perspective Study 010 MDF and interior paint Twilight Hue & Golden Meadow 14 x 14 x 4 cm Mixed media on canvas, 30 x 30cm

Form 20 Set 4 MDF and interior paint each piece 20 x 20 cm, oberall grid 70 x 70 cm

Perspective Study 012 :: Perspective Study 013 MDF and interior paint 14 x 14 x 4 cm

Perspective Study 011 MDF and interior paint 14 x 14 x 4 cm

JON THOMAS

Primary Red Fluorescent arylic and plaster 36 x 18 x 15 cm

Untitled Blue paint on EPS 30 x 45 x 17 cm

Saturation Point Marble, plaster, fluorescent acrylic 20 x 20 x 3 cm

Space between Polystyrene, plaster, MDF, acrylic paint 37 x 25 x 5 cm

Naked ambition Plaster, cast acrylic 40 x 8 x 7.5 cm

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