Paul McGowan’s “PRECIPICE” at Mauger's Modern Art London, Bath & The Eden Project
Mauger Modern Art In London 10 June to 3 July 2010 Mauger Modern Art, 81 Rochester Row, London SW1P 1LJ.
Mauger Modern Art in Bath 8 July to 31 July at 6 Bartlett Street, Bath, BA1 2QZ. Contact Richard Mauger for Details 0044 (0) 1225 315 110.
Eden Project date to be announced.
This Year Paul McGowan is opening 3 progressive bodies of work that follow on from the Eden Projects “Living on The Edge” Program. Each of the 3 shows will have its own identity. The new works were produced on McGowan’s Ark Studio that was given to him by Spectrum, a Cornish autism charity that is heading a pioneering study in the relationship between autism and art. A program that McGowan is participating in and helping Spectrum to develop.
At Mauger Modern Art London Paul will be exhibiting his new works that have followed on from the Eden Project. This exhibition will include Large Paintings, multi media and instillation pieces. There will also be a selection of McGowan’s experimental collaborative pieces.
The second show will include key pieces from his original Body of work from the “Living on The Edge” series, and a selection of new works including drawings. This exhibition will be the overview of the 3 years of McGowan’s work starting from his appointment as The Eden Projects Artist in residence. This will be a unique view into the vast body of work Produced by McGowan over the last 3 years. “I feel we are now confronted with a choice. We are standing on the precipice. Things will have to start changing. The physical and emotional landscape is changing and there is so much tension and anxiety all around us. ”
The 3rd show will be staged back at the Eden Project and will focus on His Blockhead project collaborations with artists from a variety of artistic backgrounds. It will be his final works for the Eden Project. The collaborations will include paintings, instillations and audio pieces that have been developed for the precipice series. McGowan informs us that where “Living on the Edge” was about the effect Man has on our surroundings, “Precipice” is about the effect the surrounding we have created has on us and our own existence. Examining social fear and anxiety. This Exhibition will include The Much Publicised “Divinity of Monsters” Now in the private collection of London art collector Udhyam Amin. McGowan is currently revising the 3rd panel of the triptych that was described in Vanessa Thorpe’s column in The Guardian as 'A potent symbol of a culture that's losing its self-respect'.
Mauger Modern Art London is in the heart of Westminster just 6 minutes walk from Tate Britain and Victoria tube. The gallery is ideally positioned to introduce the work of national and international artists to an wide audience. It also as a hub from which the directors communicate with clients and institutions while preparing a rigorous art fair and exhibition schedule. The gallery's branch in Bath is the biggest commercial gallery in the city, and exhibits shows that begin in London and move to the South West- exposing represented artists to clients and collectors from two different regions. The gallery's driving ethos is to encourage and stimulate experimentation through the support and presentation of new works by emerging and established artists. For an invitation to the private view please contact
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Coming to the Eden project Autumn 2010.
Entrances And Exits (The Anti Chamber)
The next works to be installed at Eden will examine the troubled human psyche along an unpredictable path. The work will echo the traces of a destructive human presence. The piece will operate on a conceptual and aesthetic level and will have 3 main layers to approach the work from.
The Anti Chamber
The work will consist of large hanging paintings and prints from the ceiling of the biome that will reference the framed windows of a comic book, these works will be satirical and will confront issues that affect us all every day. The pieces will discuss the world we have created outside of nature’s evolutionary process. The world we have made for ourselves to live in.
Entrances And Exits
Is about making a personal contribution to the solution. You can decide to make a positive contribution or you can choose to ignore the wealth of knowledge we now have and go through life as a mindless drone constantly ignoring the moral aspects of a society that has become blinded by a selfish lifestyle.
The artwork at the core of this installation is titled “Precipice”. The piece will be constructed on the foundations of the biome and will bring to the forefront our failings to control mankind’s destructive actions and the consequences we face as a result.
This work brings artists from many different creative fields together. Each discipline enriches the physical and conceptual nature of the work.
This piece is both for us as well as being about us. “We are the people” And we are responsible.