Pseudo-Museology by dalla Rosa Gallery

PSEUDO-MUSEOLOGY Caroline Corbasson Jane Hayes Greenwood Catrin Morgan Kasper Pincis 5 - 27 September 2014

dalla Rosa Gallery | 121 Clerkenwell Road | London EC1R 5BY | dallarosagallery.com

PSEUDO-MUSEOLOGY CAROLINE CORBASSON, JANE HAYES GREENWOOD, CATRIN MORGAN, KASPER PINCIS 5 – 27 September 2014 Archaeology, Astronomy, Cartography, Geography, Geology, and Typography – these disciplines and their systems of classification are a strong influence on the four artists presented in PseudoMuseology. Their visual language is rooted in a tradition of displays aiming at knowledge promulgation, although their take on this iconography places their work in the realm of contemporary art. By filtering museological categories through visual art the artists combine credible and fictional elements, playing with our response to archetypal images of knowledge and research. Paris-based artist Caroline Corbasson works with an array of different materials, from vintage books to graphite applied to sculptural pieces, and more traditional landscape drawings. FrançoisRené Martin (École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris) observed that ‘Corbasson is fascinated by stars, constellations, planets, astrophysics, the Milky Way, with telescopes and by light years. She is equally fascinated by climatic hazards, tornadoes, the northern lights, and eclipses.’ Her series Blackout Book merges this interest in celestial bodies with the traditional study of Art History in the form of a large art encyclopedia where all the photographic reproductions of old masters paintings have been replaced by a layer of graphite powder suggesting astronomical charts, while the book covers have been masked to create a vacuum reminiscent of black holes. Martin adds ‘What is instigated, in the work of Caroline Corbasson, is a poetic history of art, bordering on fantasy: an atlas of forgetfulness, an enigmatic series of names from conversations to which only she possesses the key.’ Corbasson studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des BeauxArts and Central Saint Martins, her work has been shown in France and Europe, most recently at BALTIC, Newcastle. As Thomas Groves writes ‘In Jane Hayes Greenwood’s recent work, ancient archeological artefacts curiously anthropomorphic in form, or familiar twentieth century artworks are resurrected and filtered through the contemporary lens of a distinctively restless making process. Here, the museological or ‘dug-up thing’ is remodelled, painted and restaged before being photographed and then meticulously described as a drawing or in paint.’ ‘Each of Hayes Greenwood’s works is clearly indebted to the specific properties of the unique archeological, historical or psychological object, but they are also driven by a need for rearticulation, a radical reframing within her own particular visual language.’ Hayes Greenwood has shown in London and around the United Kingdom, she is a co-founder and Director of Block 336, a large artist-run project space and studio provider in Brixton, South London.

Catrin Morgan’s work explores the relationship between text and image, she is particularly interested in creating work governed by underlying frameworks, rules and hidden meanings. Most of her projects are conceived in relation with the book format, from limited edition artist books to mainstream publishing. Her research on the Taxonomy of Deception developed into a PhD at the Royal College of Art, a project closely connected with her illustrations for Ben Marcus novel The Age of Wire and String, commissioned and published by Granta Books (2013). Kasper Pincis’ practice plays with ideas of fiction, adventure, folklore and exploration, balancing conventional imagery with his experimental approach to medium and technique. ‘My recent work using photocopiers has been inspired by an interest in time, and attempts to capture a moment of movement. Like the abstract typewriter pieces, there is an implicit period of time or labour that has been captured, whether it’s the sum total of the individual taps on the typewriter keyboard, or the second of movement of the photocopier’s scanner under the glass.’ ‘In a way, it relates to Zen calligraphy, where all the preparation beforehand is preserved forever when the brush commits to the paper in a single meditative instant, like a fly being trapped in amber’ (Kasper Pincis). He studied at Camberwell College of Art, Goldsmiths, and Royal Academy Schools, was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 and is featured in the book Typewriter art: a modern anthology by Barrie Tullet (Laurence King, 2014).

previous page: Catrin Morgan, Untitled (2014), digital collage this page: Kasper Pincis, Geological Hammer III (2014), balsa wood, gesso and graphite powder, 25 x 7.5 x 4.5 cm

CAROLINE CORBASSON Education 2008 –13 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris), DNSAP (Honors) 2011 Central Saint Martins (London) BA Fine Art 2013 2012 2011 2010

Solo Exhibitions DNSAP, Beaux-Arts, Paris Constellation, Galerie Antonine Catzeflis, Paris DNAP, Beaux-Arts, Paris Salon d’Oriano, Paris

2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

Selected Group Exhibitions To Fill A Void, with Anthony Faroux, Kasper Pincis, and Andy Wicks (curated by Kasper Pincis), A.P.T. Gallery, London Art Paris At Fair with Galerie L’Inlassable, Grand Palais, Paris Géodésie, l’impossible tracé, Galerie Odile Ouizeman, Paris They Used to Call it the Moon, BALTIC, Newcastle Pseudo-Museology, dalla Rosa Gallery, London Multiplied Art Fair, Christie’s South Kensington, dalla Rosa stand, London Bruno Albizzati / Caroline Corbasson, Galerie Antonine Catzeflis, Paris They Used to Call it the Moon, BALTIC39, Newcastle La Recherche, Boiler Room, Oslo Scope 2014 with L’Inlassable Galerie, Bâle BIENNALE DU DESSIN, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris London Art Fair, Art Projects with L’Inlassable Galerie, London Prix Icart-Artistikrezo, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris Rise/Home, La Base, Paris Nature Morte, Honoré #1, Galerie Rue Visconti, Paris Cutlog, L’Inlassable Galerie, New York The Corner, curated by Oona Doyle, London SCOPE, with L’Inlassable Galerie, Miami Mandrosagora, L’Inlassable Galerie, Paris Il Viaggiatore Immobile, L’Inlassable Galerie, Turin Series of Lines, Galerie Daniez & de Charette, cityParis Micro salon #2, L’Inlassable Galerie, Paris

2014 2011

Prizes Finaliste Prix Icart-Artistikrezo Lauréate Prix Diamond

opposite: Caroline Corbasson, Blackout Book (2013), spray paint on book cover, 50.7 x 59.5 cm

JANE HAYES GREENWOOD

2015 2011

Education MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School BA (Hons) Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School

2015

Solo Exhibitions Jane Hayes Greenwood, Art Bermondsey, London

Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 Pseudo-Museology, dalla Rosa Gallery, London Art Athina, with Lubromiv-Easton, Athens (Greece) Test Space Open, Spike Island, Bristol, May 2014 Future Flesh, Gallery 223, Waterloo, London Block 336 Studio Artists Exhibition, Block 336 Gallery, London 2013 Aid & Abet at Manchester Contemporary 2012 Block 336 PRESENTS..., Block 336 Gallery, London Secret Gallery, London ArtWorks Open 2012 Searcys, The Gherkin, London ‘1’, Block 336 Gallery, London 2011 Stitch Art Auction, The Dairy WC1, London Liber Abaci - Geometry in Nature, Coldharbour London Gallery Recent Graduates Exhibition, Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead Heath, London Recent Graduates Exhibition, Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London Art Lynx, Skinners’ Hall, London City & Guilds of London Art School Degree Show, London Art | Unity | Hope, London 2010 VAULT, Lambeth Accord, London 2009 On The Vyne, Vyner Street, London Grants and Awards 2011 The Haworth Trust Award Outstanding Work in Show (Fine Art) Selected by The Board of Trustees The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers 2010 - 11 The Worshipful Company of Grocers The Savoy Educational Trust 2010 Philip Connard Travel Award (The Worshipful Company of Skinners) The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers 2009 - 10 Worshipful Company of Grocers The Savoy Educational Trust

Projects Jane Hayes Greenwood is co-founder and Executive Director of Block 336, an artist- run project space and studio provider in Brixton, South London. Working with a team of artists, all of which have studios that are set alongside the central gallery space, Block 336 has held ten exhibitions to date since opening in March 2012. Block 336 is a space which foregrounds emerging practices within a supportive and critical context, free from the constraints of the commercial market. opposite: Jane Hayes Greenwood, The Returned (2013), detail, graphite on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm each

CATRIN MORGAN

2014 2008 2005

Education PhD in Visual Communication, The Taxonomy of Deception, Royal College of Art, London MA in Communication Art and Design, Royal College of Art, London BA Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University

2015 2014 2013

Solo Exhibitions Relay, dalla Rosa Gallery, London The Taxonomy of Deception, Royal College of Art, London The Age of Wire and String, dalla Rosa Gallery, London

2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007 2005

Selected Group Exhibitions Pseudo-Museology, dalla Rosa Gallery, London Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space (London) and UK tour We Are What We Hide, ICA Maine (USA) Carta, Sluice Art Fair with dalla Rosa Gallery, London Cross Section/02: Benjamin Bridges and Catrin Morgan, dalla Rosa Gallery, London Ghost Stations, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes Fieldwork, Regency House, Brighton Summer Show, Florence Trust, London Open Studios, Florence Trust, London She dreams that they are somewhere near. They are somewhere near, Bromley House Library, Nottingham Butterfly, Fulham Palace, London Pocom Comica Festival, ICA, London Talent, Designhuis, Eindhoven We came to take your jobs away, Hockney Gallery, London We came to take your jobs away, Spodnji Knezji Dvorec, Celje (Slovenia) 5x5, Hockney Gallery, London 21g, dazed and Confused Gallery, London September 29th 1860, 1851 Gallery, Nottingham

Awards and Residencies 2011 Funding in support of research from Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust 2010 - 11 One year residency at Florence Trust, London 2013 2011

Publications The Age of Wire and String, a novel by Ben Marcus illustrated by Catrin Morgan, Granta Books (ISBN: 9781847086389) Jerwood Drawing Prize 2013, catalogue edited by Professor Anita Taylor and Parker Harris (ISBN: 978 -1-908331-12-0) Phantom Settlements, Mireille Fauchon and Catrin Morgan, Ditto Press (ISBN: 978-0-9567952-1-2)

Teaching Catrin Morgan currently teaches on the MA Illustration Authorial Practice program at University College Falmouth and on the Illustration BA at Norwich University College of the Arts. She has also taught at the Royal College of Art as visiting lecturer. opposite: Catrin Morgan, Swimming, an inscription (2013), detail, gouache on paper

KASPER PINCIS Education 2004 - 07 Royal Academy Schools: PGdip Fine Art, Gold Medal Winner 2001 - 04 Goldsmiths College, University of London: Joint Honours BA Fine Art and History of Art 2000 - 01 Camberwell College of Art 2012 2010

Solo Exhibitions Pekee-Nuee-Nuee, dalla Rosa Gallery, London Perek, Aanant&Zoo Gallery, Berlin By Any Means, dalla Rosa Gallery, London

2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006

Selected Group Exhibitions Carta, dalla Rosa Gallery, London To Fill a Void, with Caroline Corbasson, Andy Wicks, Anthony Faroux, A.P.T. Gallery, London The Missing, or: One Thing Next to Another, Kunstsaele Berlin Solid Mark: Richard Ducker & Kasper Pincis, dalla Rosa Gallery, London London Art Fair, Art Projects, dalla Rosa Gallery stand Multiplied, dalla Rosa’s stand, Christie’s South Kensington, London Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings Cluster: Benjamin Bridges, Aaron McElroy, Kasper Pincis, dalla Rosa Gallery, London Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition, Jerwood Space, London Cross Section/01, dalla Rosa Gallery, London Summer Show, Royal Academy of Art, London London Art Fair, Art Projects, dalla Rosa Gallery stand Print & Design, Bearspace at SW1 Gallery, London London Art Fair, Art Projects, Bearspace stand Open Studio, Deptford X, London Zero, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps, Parlour Project Space, London Identity, Martinart Gallery, Turin Royal Academy Schools Diploma Show, London ASP.KRK.RAS.LDN, Wisnicz Castle, Krakow Premiums, Royal Academy Schools interim show, London

Collections Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library (London) The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (Miami, Florida) Private collections in Germany, Italy, and United Kingdom

2014 2012

Publications Typewriter art: a modern anthology, Barrie Tullet, Laurence King Publishers (ISBN 9781780673479) Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012 Catalogue, edited by Anita Taylor and Parker Harris (ISBN 978-1-908331-07-6)

opposite: Kasper Pincis, 0,297 Metres per Second (2014), one-off photocopy of a moving object, 41 x 32 cm