Ian Grose
Other Things
11/05/2011 - 11/06/2011
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(WORKS FEATURED IN THIS EXHIBITION)
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Ian Grose. Twin Apparition (The Shining). 2010. Oil on paper
That translation incurs a loss of detail or meaning is unremarkable. The interest is in the nature of the remnant, the new thing.
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In painting from existing images, and understanding myself as a translator of visual material, I have tried to find the embedded counterpoint to the loss of translation, and even the poetry of that loss. This function of painting finds allegories in my subject matter, which serve to represent it: the traces of the departed (whether creases in linen or apparitions), a pregnant absence, an empty room or car filled if only by the products of longing.
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If paint itself can function as a signifier of its practice and history, then in erasing an object or person it is also acting as its proxy. It is the substance (and daily practice) that fills the void.
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Painting, having died and stuck around, is also a ghost.
-Ian Grose
'Other Things' is the first solo exhibition of Ian Grose (b. 1985 in Joburg) since completing his Postgraduate Diploma in Painting at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2010. Subsequent group exhibitions include 'This Must Be The Place' - iArt Gallery, CT, 'Judgement 2011 Case No. 001/05/2008' - Association for Visual Arts Gallery, CT, 'The Night Show: a group exhibition in three parts' - The Goodman Gallery, CT and 'Alptraum!' - Deutscher Kunstlerbund Projektraum, Berlin. He lives and works in Cape Town.
