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The Taile of the One-Armed Snake Charles Avery
GRIMM is proud to announce The Taile of the OneArmed Snake, a new solo exhibition by Charles Avery at GRIMM in Amsterdam. Since 2005, Charles Avery’s work has focused on a fictional island: an all-encompassing investigation of the fabric and mentality of another place. Through drawings, texts and objects the artist describes the inhabitants, architecture, philosophies, customs and idiosyncrasies of this imaginary territory. With accents of the Scottish Hebrides and East London, the Island is located at the centre of an archipelago of innumerable constituents. The gateway to the Island is the port of Onomatopoeia, once the stepping off point of the pioneers who first arrived, turned colonial outpost, turned boom town, bustling metropolis, depression ravaged slum, and regenerated city of culture and ultimately tourist destination. It has many stories, played out within the limits of a monumental city wall that separates the dark and violent wilderness beyond. The title of the show, The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, takes its name from a bill pasted on the wall, under the porticos, where a market takes place by day. The poster is surmounted upon layers of other notices, stuck up, torn down, peeled off: signs to and remnants of the Islanders’ cultural activity. Several large and medium scale drawings provide a textural insight into life in, on, around and beyond
the city wall: from the bustlin to a lonely oarsman bringing the twin lighthouses forming Onomatopoeia. Cultivators te Utopian fort, a satellite of the red-headed student with the cafe. Saltimbanques practice beasts devour scraps left ove
These scenes of Island life a projections and plans of the us a god’s eye view of the co mathematics that underpins
The centrepiece of the show of multiple parts: a section o manner of re-purposed conta various species. Immediately inspection the creatures can geometries: the hexagon, the Predominantly on offer on th sacred mainstay of the Island faced eels of all different col by Avery as ‘muscly lines wi simplest form, primitive bein
The Taile of the One-Armed S stories, ideas, and percepts i fabric of the Island.
ng society of the market g wood by boat to fire g the sea-facing gate of end to their crops outside a e city-proper. The attractive weak chin muses in a e beneath the arches, whilst er from the market.
are offset by isometric City wall and the fort, giving onstructions and the rigorous many of their systems.
w is a large glass installation of a fish market, with all ainer used to display y familiar, under closer n be seen to embody various e tetrahedron, the pentagon. he stalls are the ‘ninth’, the ders’ diet and economy: doglours and girths. Described ith faces’ they represent the ngs of pure, directional will.
Snake is a multitude of interwoven to create the rich
About the artist Charles Avery (b. 1973 in Oban, UK) lives and works in London and on the Island of Mull (UK). Recent solo exhibitions include The Gates of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK); These Waters, GRIMM, New York (US) and Study #15, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK). Avery’s work is now on view at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden (NL), as part of the exhibition Other Worldly. Recent exhibitions include the 16th Istanbul Biennale (TR) titled The Seventh Continent, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud; the Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK); NOW at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK); Auto fictions – Contemporary drawing Prix de dessin Guerlain, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE); Rhapsody in Blue, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL) and GLASSTRESS, Palazzo Franchetti, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT). Avery’s work can be found in the collections of Tate, London (UK); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL); David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK) and Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL), amongst others.
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Untitled (Onomatopoeia Harbour Gate, West Tower, with Oarsman in foreground) 2018 Pencil, ink, acrylic and watercolour on paper 227 x 145 cm | 89 3/8 x 57 1/8 in
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detail | Untitled, (Onomatopoeia Harbour Gate, West Tower, with Oarsman in foreground) | 2018
installation view | The Taile of the One-Armed Snake | GRIMM, Amsterdam, 2020
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Untitled (The gates of Onomatopoeia with landform in background) 2020 Pencil, acrylic and ink on board 162.8 x 121.8 x 48 cm | 64 1/8 x 48 x 18 7/8 in
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installation view | The Taile of the One-Armed Snake | GRIMM, Amsterdam, 2020
Untitled (Red-headed girl with weak chin) 2018 Acrylic, ink and pencil on paper mounted on linen 72.5 x 50 cm | 28 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
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detail | Untitled, (Saltimbanques practicing underneath the arches) | 2020
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Pencil, acrylic, ink and watercolour on paper 220 x 350 cm | 86 5/8 x 137 3/4 in
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installation view | The Taile of the One-Armed Snake | GRIMM, Amsterdam, 2020
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Untitled (Bowlers) 2018 Acrylic, ink and pencil on paper 78.3 x 106.1 cm | 30 7/8 x 41 3/4 in
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Untitled (What’s so great about Happiness?) 2014 Screen print on 315gsm paper 83.8 x 57.3 cm | 33 x 22.6 in Edition of 100
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Untitled (Looks like a unicorn smells like a unicorn..) 2016 Lithograph on 315 gsm paper 84 x 57 cm | 33 1/8 x 22 1/2 in Edition of 100
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Untitled (The Square Circle) 2016 Six colour screen print with gold leaf onto Dreadnought grey 84 x 57 cm | 33 1/8 x 22 1/2 in Edition of 100
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Charles Avery
What’s so Great about Happiness? The People and things from Onomatopoeia, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Lives and works in London (UK)
2013
It Means It Means! curated by Tom Morton, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (FR)
AWARDS
Vitrines: Charles Avery, L’Antenne, Le Plateau, FRAC, Paris (FR)
2017
Solo Exhibition, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
It Means It Means!, curated by Tom Morton, Pilar Corrias, London (UK)
2002 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, London (UK)
2012
New Works from the Islanders Project (Concerning the Qoro-qoros, the Jadindagadendar and the Eternal dialectic), GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2011 New Drawings of Onomatopoeia, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
b. 1973 in Oban, Scotland (UK)
Shortlisted for the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation’s Drawing Prize, Les Mesnuls (FR)
2004 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, London (UK) 2003 Prospects Drawing Prize, London (UK)
Shortlisted for the Prospects Drawing Prize, London (UK)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 The Taile of the One-Armed Snake, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) 2019 The Gates of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) 2018
Independent Brussels, GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
Charles Avery: What is it about the red- headed girl with the weak chin? New Portraits of the Onomatopoeians, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2017 These Waters, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
Study #15, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK)
The People and Things of Onomatopoeia: Part 2, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (UK)
2016 Charles Avery, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) Charles Avery, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (UK) 2015 The Impossible City, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (UK) Charles Avery: The People and Things of Onomatopoeia, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) What’s the Matter with Idealism?, GEM, Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague (NL)
Fig-2 2/50 Charles Avery, ICA Studio, London (UK)
2014 What’s So Great About Happiness? The People and things from Onomatopoeia – Part 2, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
A Million Miles from Home, The Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone (UK)
Place de la Revolution, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (UK)
2010 Onomatopoeia, Part 1, FRAC, Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris (FR) Onomatopoeia, Part 1, Kunstverein, Hanover (DE)
Onomatopoeia, Part 1, EX3 – Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Florence (IT)
Onomatopoeia, Part 2: The Port, Pilar Corrias gallery, London (UK)
2009 Onomatopoeia, Part 1: Creeds, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (IT) 2008
The Islanders: An Introduction, Parasol Unit, London; The National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
2007 The Islanders: An Introduction – Part III, Gowen Contemporary (formerly Arquebuse), Geneva (CH) Maquette of the Eternity Chamber, Gowen Contemporary (formerly Arquebuse), Geneva (CH) 2006 The Plane of The Gods, Cubitt Gallery, London (UK)
The Islanders: An Introduction – Part II, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (IT)
Charles Avery & Keith Wilson, Alexandre Pollazzon, London (UK)
2005 The Islanders: An Introduction, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK)
Hunting the Noumenon, Galleria Archimede Staffolini, Nicosia (CY)
Avatars, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2004 The Hunter, Man in the Holocene, London (UK)
It Thinks, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin (IT)
2003 The Square Root of 2, Sleeper, Edinburgh (UK)
The Freedom of the Universe, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2002 The Truth about the Truth, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK)
Triangle Land, Dee Glasoe Gallery, New York, NY (US)
2001 The Palace of the Gulls, Percy Miller Gallery, London (UK) 2000 The Last Yolk, Sonia Rosso Gallery, Pordenone (IT)
1999
Charles Avery, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US)
The Life and Times of Nancy Haselswon, Tablet Gallery, London (UK)
1998
The Creation of the Omniverse, Nylon, London (UK)
Portraits of People Who Never Existed, Entwistle Gallery, London (UK)
1997
The Underground Exhibition, Aldwych Tube Station, London (UK)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 Other Worldly, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (NL) 2019 Away in the Hill, GRIMM New York, NY (US)
Summer Exhibition 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK)
NOW: Anya Gallaccio, Charles Avery, Aurélian Froment, Roger Hiorns, Peles Empire, Zineb Sedira, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
16th Istanbul Biennale: The Seventh Continent, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Pera Museum, Istanbul (TR) 2018 Auto fictions – Contemporary drawing Prix de dessin Guerlain, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (DE) TWENTY, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
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Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (UK)
Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
On A Pedestal, Castletown House, County Kildare (IE)
2017
Plurivers, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier (FR)
GLASSTRESS, Palazzo Franchetti, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT)
Arts Night, London (UK)
Exhibition paintings, Kunst Meran/Merano Arte, Merano (IT)
Prix de Dessin, Salon du Dessin, Palais Brongniart, Paris (FR)
2016 The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Breese Little, London (UK)
The Riddle of Pooch Avery, Dee Glasoe Gallery, New York, NY (US)
The Ghost of Scirribin, Nylon Gallery, London (UK)
Drawing Conclusions, RISD Museum, Providence, RI (US)
Constructing Nature, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam (NL)
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kunnumpuram (IN)
2015
Animals in art – Collectie De Heus-Zomer, Museum Nairac, Barneveld (NL)
The Improbable City, Edinburgh Art Festival 2015, Edinburgh (UK)
Fig-2 (2/50), ICA, Institute for Contemporary Art, London (UK)
2014 Feels Like Heaven, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (IL) The Great Acceleration: Art in the Anthropocene, Taipei Biennial, Taipei (TW) Manifest Intention, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, (IT)
Huidige Zaken, GRIMM, Amsterdam, (NL)
Generation: 25 years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
Year after Year: Works on Paper From the UBS Art Collection, Galleria D’Arte Moderna di Milano, Milan (IT)
Potent Wilderness, Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Genia Schreiber Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL)
2013
Drawing Rroom, curated by Ami Barak, Carre St Anne, Montpellier (FR)
Mijn Derde Land, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
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The World is Almost Six Thousand Years Old, curated by Tom Morton, Collection and Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire (UK)
Altermodern: Fourth Tate Triennial, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Tate Britain, London (UK)
Beastly Hall: A Place Where Artists and Creatures Collide, Hall Place, Bexley, OH (US)
A Parliament of Lines, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (UK)
Imagining Islands: Artists and Escape, The Courtauld Gallery, London (UK)
2008 Scotland & Venice 2003, 2005, 2007 - Charles Avery, Simon Starling and Cathy Wilkes, The Pier Orkney (UK)
2012 A parliament of lines, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney (UK)
Biennal Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London (UK)
Made Up, International Festival of Contemporary Art, 5th Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (UK)
Irony & Gesture, Kukje Gallery, Seoul (KR)
A parliament of lines, The RMIT University Gallery, Melbourne (AU)
Haunts & follies, Linden Centre for Contemporary arts, St. Kilda (UK)
2007 Scotland & Venice, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice (IT)
Machines for living, Yaffo 23, Jerusalem (IL)
The Lyon Biennale, Lyon (FR)
Hedendaagse surreële tekeningen uit Rotterdam, collectie Boijmans van Beuningen, Institut Neerlandais, Paris (FR)
The Athens Biennale, Athens (GR)
The Comic Side of Art, Nest, The Hague (NL)
Every Eye Sees Differently as The Eye, The Drawing Room, London (UK)
Galicia: Topographies of Myth, SOKOL, Nowy Sacz (PL)
Timer, Triennial Bovisa, Milan (IT)
A Parliament of Lines, ECAC, Scotland (UK)
Welcome to My World, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., London (UK)
Le Mirir et l’encyclopedie, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris (FR)
2011 Folkestone Triennial: A Million Miles From Home, Folkestone (UK)
As the World turns: New Art from London, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney (AU)
2010 Recent British Sculpture, curated by Tom Morton, GRIMM , Amsterdam (NL) British Art Show 7: In the days of the Comet, New Art Exchange, Nottingham Castle Museum, and Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (UK); Hayward Gallery, London (UK); Centre for Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, and Tramway, Glasgow (UK); Peninsula Arts, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, The Slaughterhouse, and Royal William Yard, Plymouth (UK) Acquisition Presentation Contemporary Drawings, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
Languages and Experimentations, Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero, Trento (IT)
2009 Life Forms, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (SE) Walking in My Mind, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
A Duck for Mr. Darwin, BALTIC, Gateshead (UK)
Artfutures, Bloomberg Space, London (UK)
Ironie der Objekte, MUSEION Museum fur moderne und zeitgenossische Kunst, Bolzano (IT) 2006 Flip, Francois Ghebaly/Chung King Project, Los Angeles, CA (US) 2005 Sculpture Garden, Fortescue Avenue/ Jonathan Viner, London (UK)
Memphis, Flaca, London (UK)
Theoroma, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Avignon (FR)
Inaugurazione Nuovo Spazio, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2004 Premio del Golfo, La Spezia (IT)
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London (UK); Pitville Gallery, Cheltenham (UK); Bayart, Cardiff (UK); Midlands Art Center, Birmingham (UK); EICH, Hull (UK); The Lowry, Manchester (UK).
Trailer, Man in the Holocene, London (UK)
Io mi Ricordo, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2003 Il Premio per La Giovanne Arte Italiana, Padiglione di Venezia, 50th Venice Biennale (IT)
Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (UK)
Necessary Kids, Charles Avery and Piotr Uklanski, Costa Vece, Gallerie Civico d’Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Sicily (IT)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Dark Shadows, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Works on Paper, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia (CY)
De Heus-Zomer Collection, Barneveld (NL)
Prospects Drawing Prize, Truman Brewery, London (UK)
Edinburgh City Art Centre Collection, Edinburgh (UK)
AKZO Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL) Arts Council England Collection, London (UK) David Roberts Arts Foundation, London (UK)
2002 Contemporary Art Project, Museum of Modern Art, Seattle, WA (US)
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main (DE) EKARD collection FRAC Île de France, Paris (FR)
A Measure of Distance, Magnani, London (UK)
Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London; Midlands Art Center Birmingham; Glasgow School of Art; EICH Gallery, Hull; The Lowry, Manchester (UK)
Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv (IL)
Prospects Drawing Prize, Truman Brewery, London (UK)
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL)
Supersonic and Alien, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
Tate Modern, London (UK)
Flights of Reality, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (UK)
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR) Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) ProWinko Collection, Amstelveen (NL) VandenBroek Foundation, Lisse (NL)
Flights of Reality, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (UK) 2001 Ghosty, Mille Eventi, Milan (IT)
Works on Paper, Studio SALES di Norberto Ruggeri, Rome (IT)
2000 Made Space, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (UK); Changing Room, Stirling (UK); Pekao Gallery, Toronto (CA)
Drawing, Percy Miller Gallery, London (Uk)
Innuendo, Dee/Glasoe Gallery, New York, NY (US) 1999
Surveying the Landscape, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Selection from the Files, Nylon, London (UK)
The British on Paper, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Pordenone (IT)
Untitled, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia (CY)
Draw, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
Fine Line, Duncan Cargill Gallery, London (UK) 1998
Golf Sale, Merc House, London (UK)
1997 The Underdogs, Uncle Grey Presents, London (UK) 1996
Charles Avery & Peter Harris, Uncle Grey Presents, London (UK)
Conversation Pieces, Uncle Grey Presents, London (UK)
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