FARCE
Neill Kidgell Jack Killick
8 April– 12 May 2017
PV: Friday 7th April, 6–9pm
Lychee One Gallery is pleased to present “FARCE”. This exhibition brings together new paintings by Neill Kidgell and a sculptural installation work by Jack Killick.
The works presented here share the appearance of being made up of fragments and emerge out of an improvisational approach to image and mark making, and to the manipulation of physical material and error. Both the paintings and the sculpture engage archetypal forms, quotidian or close-at-hand subject matter and material, and the desire to shift, transform and re-encounter the familiar in an unfamiliar way. Through this muddling of reality and imagination, scale, colour and shape become heightened or distorted and signification becomes ambiguous or nonsensical. In this way, for all their stillness and embeddedness in the tangible world, these works move between representation and abstraction and seek to directly address the non-fixity of perception.
Neill Kidgell (b.1981, Ipswich, UK), lives and works in London. Neill studied at the Royal Academy Schools (PG Dip Fine Art, 2013–16), Chelsea College of Art and Design(BA Hons Fine Art, 2000–03) and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design(Foundation, 1999–2000). Recent exhibitions include: Opening Ride, Carousel, London (2017), Summer Blue, Lychee One, London (2016), RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2016) and Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2015). Neill is currently a lecturer on the BA Fine Art course at Kingston University and will be the Artist in Residence at Eton College from September through December 2017.
Neill makes paintings that involve abstract form, mark making and representational suggestion. Things are worked out and edited on the surface and the traces of this process, of erasing and over painting, remain visible in the finished works. The paintings frequently look like an accumulation of fragments that hover, or oscillate, between being recognisable and not, between being or suggesting one thing and another. These elements emerge and often repeat, combine and transform within an individual work and across a number of paintings.
Jack Killick (b.London, 1985) studied at the Royal Academy Schools (PG Dip Fine Art, 2013–16),The Slade School of Art (BA Hons Fine Art, 2004–08). Recent exhibitions include: QUESTION CENTRE, Studio RCA Riverside, London (2017), Strike Site, PiARTWORKS, LONDON, (2017), CRISPS, UEL project space, (2016), RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2016) and Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2015).
Jack makes paintings, drawings and sculptures which tend to culminate in immersive environments. He often paints on walls claiming the architectural nuances of a given space as a starting point to dictate large abstract forms highlighting the sculptural qualities within painting. Frequently the paintings also form the basis for sculptural environments, sets or stages that are activated by the presence of people and these installations, made from robust building materials like wood and plaster, often seem too large for the space they inhabit.
尼尔·基德戈尔 杰克·基力克
玩趣世界
展期：2017年4月8日 至 5月12日
开幕：4月6日 晚 6-9点
荔枝一号画廊很荣幸地为您呈现 “玩趣世界”。这次展览集合了尼尔·基德戈尔的新画作和杰克·基力克 的全新雕塑装置，在万物初苏的春季，不啻一场视觉盛宴。
两位艺术家的作品演示了图像和形态的碎片性组合，他们的创作既包含了即兴任情的自由迸发，又有对于过程中错失的把控玩趣。
无论是画作还是雕塑，艺术家都融入了个人对事物原初状态的思考过程，以及对触手可及的种种物质材料的深度探究。他们决意改变和转换一切物质存在模式，以令人耳目一新的手法重新组合你熟知的世界。
模糊实体和想象力的边界，转换比例和颜色的现实性，他们的作品变得敏锐而细腻；又或者索性扭曲和偷换实体概念，他们让世界变得混沌无稽。
正是如此，艺术家让自己的作品游离于表现性和抽象思维之间，只为了呈现出现实世界里，静止状态和侵入性的交互作用、相互冲击，他们甚至试图从中获取超越有常世界的洞察力，并把其中的种种领悟与观众一起分享。
艺术家简介
尼尔·基德戈尔(生于1981, 伊普斯威奇, 英国) 工作生活于伦敦。2013-16年间，他在伦敦皇家艺术学院学习并获得硕士学位。在此之前他在中央圣马丁艺术学院学习艺术并获得学士学位。他最近的展览包括2017年 Opening Ride, 伦敦Carousel空间, 2016 年 Summer Blue, 伦敦 荔枝一号画廊, 以及皇家艺术学院毕业展。 尼尔目前在金斯顿大学的艺术系本科任讲师，并将于2017年9月至12月成为伊顿公学的驻留艺术家。
尼尔的画作糅合了抽象表现形式、涂鸦和具象主义的语言表达，在这个基础上，所有事物都被他解构和重新编辑，又或者擦除消减和重新渲染，一切创作运动的痕迹都在已完成的画面中有迹可循，并无遮掩。他的作品看似记忆碎片的堆积，每一个瞬间都蕴含着情绪的波动犹疑，在可否辨识或是否确定指向目标之间一再徘徊。这些沉思的线索有时若隐若现，激荡时却反复强调，在单幅作品甚至整个系列都端倪可察。
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杰克·基力克生于1985年，同样于2016年毕业于伦敦皇家艺术学院，在此之前他在斯莱德艺术学院取得本科学位。近期展览包括：问题中心, Studio RCA Riverside, London (2017), 罢工地点, PiARTWORKS, London, (2017), 清脆, UEL project space, London (2016), 皇家艺术学院期末展， Royal Academy of Arts, London (2016) and Premiums, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2015).
杰克·基力克的绘画作品和雕塑尝试对浸入式环境探本溯源。为了阐述大型抽象形式在绘画表现里的雕塑性，他经常在墙上作画，以此表示既定空间的建造微观差别。所以他以绘画构成了雕塑环境的基础，而以常见的建筑材料木头、石膏等构建的装置又常常被他们与观众之间的互动方式而激活。这些装置豪放庞然，从不畏惧在空间中显得过于庞大而荒诞惊人。