Le Cabinet Dentaire presents Hanging by a Thread, an exhibition of works by:
Edmundo Arigita Gavin Lockheart Alessandro Roma
“Hanging by a Thread; to be in a risky or unstable situation”
Hanging by a thread, the imminence of a breaking point. The potential
of collapse is what gives a great painting it's energy. For the artist,
it's the awareness of a moment in a work when you've overcome the fear
of beginning but not yet become subdued in the resolution of the image.
In this moment, you can build energy that remains in the painting,
capturing the ephemeral and making it last forever. For the viewer, it
is a feeling hard to explain; that one moment that sets the whole work
off and creates a vibration that we cannot quantify.
What happens then, when you visually combine works by different
artists, each with their own energy and their own moments? The hanging
canvases of Edmundo Arigita, delicately propped up and draped against
the walls like flags of romanticism, look over at the carefully
constructed collages of Alessandro Roma.
“How do you stop from collapsing?” Arigita's paintings would ask. “How do you keep from falling down?” reply Roma's works.
Across the room, a small pink and green oil painting by Gavin Lockheart
looks on with intrigue. “Their feeling of instability is in their
structure and their hanging” Lockheart's work thinks to itself. “My
structure is safe” he shouts across the room to them.
“But your
image is vibrating” replies Arigita's marooned palm tree, “I feel that
your colours or your drawing might collapse within your work at any
moment, I have to keep my eye on you to stay in your painting”.
And so the discussion bounces across the gallery, from one work to
another, each sharing their energy with the next and knowing that it is
only the idea of collapse that they fear, not collapse itself.
Sobering Gallery respresents Alessandro Roma in France.
To glance at the correspondence between the artists in their quest to
nail a title is to become alert to articulations of comradery. John
Baldessari’s writing, T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,
hymns to the potency of color and bodies both in and out of painting,
and calls for attentiveness toward looking, are swiftly cited,
circulated and served in idiomatic idiosyncrasy aplenty; ultimately,
Full House was settled upon for its capacity to evoke the fullness of
circumstance which has brought these artists together, in this space, but also in life.
Uniting the practices of Bea Bonafini, Sandra Fujii, Cecilia Granara,
Nathanaëlle Herbelin and Kathryn Marshall—versions of cross-continental
(or channel) transplants—Full House is conceived as a dialogue about
painting, and its possibility for embodiment and transmission, across
media; about the affectivity of encounters over time. Unabashed,
visually opulent and explorative, their work is given an opportunity to
collide in humming confluence due, at least in part, to a painterliness
of friendship cultivated by the artists via the medium of their lives.
Text by Emma McCormick-Goodhart.
Opening Hours:
17 October - 18 October / 12 - 5pm 19 October - 23 October / by appointment
PRIVATE VIEW / 16 October 2015, 7 - 10pm
Vis-à-vis
26 / 09 / 15 - 02 / 10 / 15
Le Cabinet Dentaire invites you to our upcoming exhibition, Vis-à-vis, with works by:
Kate Hiley / Orlando Mostyn Owen / Humberto Poblete-Bustamante / Sofia Silva
Night time, four painters sit, huddled together in a garden.They talk
over one another, feeling for hands to find each other in the
darkness.“Is it OK for a painter to be a surfer as well?” asks one. “Or is the pursuit of solitude not appropriate after so many hours spent in the silence of the studio?”
“We’ve got to hold a show called ‘Painting is Only Catholic’,” the other exclaims.
“Who do you think’s going to come to a show with a title like that?” the third interjects.
The fourth painter is eating a fruit salad with strawberries and
walnuts. He’s thinking about just how much he’d like to see that old
Frank Capra film again, ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’.“Let’s dedicate a show to
pedalos, pedalos for lakes, for the sea…” he suggests.
“No!
Let’s do a show denouncing Chilean architects, who pretend to be
oh-so-chic and then forget to put up satellite dishes on the roofs of
their terraced houses!” Thus the painters go on and on, for hours on
end, greeting passing frogs and junkies lurching around the gardens
while they invoke Francisco de Zurbarán and the Aztec muralists, sipping
away from their hipflasks.
Phantom Projects Contemporary represents Orlando Mostyn Owen and Humberto Poblete-Bustamante in France.
Opening Hours:
26 September - 27 September / 12 - 5pm 28 September - 02 October / by appointment
PRIVATE VIEW / 25 September 2015, 7 - 10pm
Confuses Paroles
04 / 07 / 15 - 10 / 07 / 15
"La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles" - from Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire
Le Cabinet Dentaire presents a collection of works by a select group of British painters:
Bobby Dowler / Ralph Hunter-Menzies / Michael Lawton / Shaun McDowell
Opening Hours:
4 July - 5 July / 12 - 5pm 6 July - 10 July / by appointment
PRIVATE VIEW / 03 July 2015, 7 - 10pm
botanica
22 / 05 / 15 - 30 / 05 / 15
Co-directors Sandra Fujii and Kate Hiley will
inaugurate Le Cabinet Dentaire by presenting a selection of their new
works in " botanica "
Opening Hours:
22 May - 23 May / 11am - 5pm 24 May - 30 May / 11am - 2pm