ZOO
Zoo art fair opened it's doors for the third year running in the great setting of London Zoo on friday (or thursday for some of us lucky few) to a huge surge of people eager to snap up new emerging artists' work, and invest in the Next Big Thing.
Of the talent on display here is my pick of the new names that I think are worth watching for the future-
TITUS KAPHAR-
'White Underneath' are a collection of vintage portrait photographs from the late 1800s which the artist has painted over to replace the white face of the original sitter with a black one of a member of his family. He explains it as "experimenting with transgressive interventions on paintings as a means of undermining hierarchical roles of the past and imposing them on contemporary narratives".
Titus has just graduated from Yale and been awarded the prestigious artist-in-residency programme from the Studio Museum, Harlem.
ROBERT MCNALLY-
A recent graduate of Camberwell College of Art, 'So How was It?' is one of Robert's delicate pencil works combining soft atmosphere with quirky humour. All four of his pieces have already sold, but look out for more offerings in his first solo show next year
RAFFAEL WALDNER-
'Fiat Coupe 2.0 Turbo' is just one of Raffael's amazing photographs of crashed luxury cars. His pictures are observations of everyday objects and locations that have lost their original function- in this case taken live at the crash scene (the police call to notify him whenever a sports car crashes), and the resulting images seem hyper-real. Due to have his first solo gallery show in Berlin in November
RENATO GARZA-
'Mental Passages' is an installation of 54 typographical images, each one representative of the artist's emotion at the time of conception. The artist is a recent graduate from his native Mexico and has already been picked up by the MOMA Mexico, plus there are plans to produce the images as a book. An ironic title considering the extortionate price tag on this piece- £5000!
Zoo art fair opened it's doors for the third year running in the great setting of London Zoo on friday (or thursday for some of us lucky few) to a huge surge of people eager to snap up new emerging artists' work, and invest in the Next Big Thing.
Of the talent on display here is my pick of the new names that I think are worth watching for the future-
TITUS KAPHAR-
'White Underneath' are a collection of vintage portrait photographs from the late 1800s which the artist has painted over to replace the white face of the original sitter with a black one of a member of his family. He explains it as "experimenting with transgressive interventions on paintings as a means of undermining hierarchical roles of the past and imposing them on contemporary narratives".
Titus has just graduated from Yale and been awarded the prestigious artist-in-residency programme from the Studio Museum, Harlem.
ROBERT MCNALLY-
A recent graduate of Camberwell College of Art, 'So How was It?' is one of Robert's delicate pencil works combining soft atmosphere with quirky humour. All four of his pieces have already sold, but look out for more offerings in his first solo show next year
RAFFAEL WALDNER-
'Fiat Coupe 2.0 Turbo' is just one of Raffael's amazing photographs of crashed luxury cars. His pictures are observations of everyday objects and locations that have lost their original function- in this case taken live at the crash scene (the police call to notify him whenever a sports car crashes), and the resulting images seem hyper-real. Due to have his first solo gallery show in Berlin in November
RENATO GARZA-
'Mental Passages' is an installation of 54 typographical images, each one representative of the artist's emotion at the time of conception. The artist is a recent graduate from his native Mexico and has already been picked up by the MOMA Mexico, plus there are plans to produce the images as a book. An ironic title considering the extortionate price tag on this piece- £5000!
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