Ruin is Rune - Alex Dordoy

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ALEX DORDOY RUIN IS RUNE

MARCH 06 - APRIL 25, 2020 202 BOWERY, NEW YORK

GRIMM 202 BOWERY NEW YORK NY 10012

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ALEX DORDOY RUIN IS RUNE

EXHIBITION

OPENING

Friday, March 6

th

Friday, March 6th, 2020, 6-8pm

until Saturday, April 25th 2020

GRIMM is proud to announce Ruin is Rune, Alex Dordoy’s (1985, Newcastle, UK) first solo exhibition in New York and his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Presented at GRIMM New York are a new series of paintings by London-based artist Alex Dordoy. The title of the exhibition, Ruin is Rune, references ruins as a symbol of impermanence and an allegory for the fragile balance between humans and nature. The artist’s paintings—ethereal and austere with an intimate focus on their subject matter— are digitally edited so that their source material takes on new symbolic meaning. Multiple renderings of a single image suggest the passage of time; as light and color change, playing poetically across the surface of forms, the feeling is one of unnatural stillness. Landscape is an important component in Dordoy’s paintings; it conveys themes of adventure, exoticism, nostalgia, and desire. However, these motifs are tinged with an ominous sensibility—as if we are presented with the remainders of a past from which we have been completely erased. The figure is conspicuously absent in each painting and instead swathes of color gradients occupy the canvas. This absence both beckons the viewer to picture themselves within these haunting spaces and elevates this perceived emptiness to become the subject matter itself. Through this body of work Dordoy continues his investigation of a visual language rooted in imagery from early 20th century advertisements. Here the vernaculars of Art Deco and Object Poster design are combined with elements from Metaphysical and Postdigital strands of painting. Two works in particular, Nature Nurture and Nurture Nature, play with this layering of references. In these colorways a Japanese screen is translated to a printed poster, to JPG, and then returns to the physicality of painting, in order to serve as the wall of Plato’s cave to an impossibly healthy water lily. Stylized and reproduced, the landscape and flower have almost had all the unruliness of nature distilled from their being; and yet they persist, even as the light begins to fade.

About the artist: Alex Dordoy (b. 1985 in Newcastle, (UK). He received his BFA from the in 2007 and completed the residenc Amsterdam (NL) in 2009.

Recent exhibitions include Summer (NL); The Moss is Dreaming at Blain Svalbard Soil at The Modern Institut The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK The Hague (NL) and Persistencebea in Edinburgh (UK). He has also part exhibitions: Doodle & Disegno at Bla Eaters, at the Monash University Mu Use/User/Used, Zabludowicz Collec Northern Gallery for Contemporary NOING UV IT, Bergen Kunsthall, Be Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, S

Alex Dordoy’s work can be found i well as the Zabludowicz Collection Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); the Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); S the KRC Collection, Voorschoten (N

About the gallery: GRIMM represents thirty internatio establishment in 2005, it has been represent and support the work of artists. The gallery has two exhibit in New York.


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ALEX DORDOY

Nature Nurture 2020 Acrylic on canvas 140 x 200 cm | 55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in

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ALEX DORDOY

Detail | Nature Nurture


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ALEX DORDOY

Nurture Nature 2020 Acrylic on canvas 140 x 200 cm | 55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in

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ALEX DORDOY

Ruin is Rune 2020 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in

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ALEX DORDOY

Arpeggi 2019 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in




ALEX DORDOY

Weird Fishes 2019 Acrylic on canvas 140 x 200 cm | 55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in

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ALEX DORDOY

Detail | Weird Fishes


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ALEX DORDOY

50 Years Over 40 Million (Coral Flame) 2020 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in


ALEX DORDOY

50 Years Over 40 Million (Goldenrod) 2020 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in

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ALEX DORDOY

Regatta 2019 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 125 cm | 78 3/4 x 49 1/4 in

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ALEX DORDOY

Eternal Sunshine 2019 Acrylic on canvas 75 x 50 cm | 29 1/2 x 19 3/4 in



ALEX DORDOY

Apocrypha 2019 Acrylic on canvas 75 x 50 cm | 29 1/2 x 19 3/4 in



ALEX DORDOY

Apocrypha 2019 Acrylic on canvas 75 x 50 cm | 29 1/2 x 19 3/4 in




ALEX DORDOY

Silicon Sunset 2018 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 60 cm | 35 3/8 x 23 5/8 in

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ALEX DORDOY

Golfe du Morbihan (dusk) 2019

Acrylic on canvas 200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8


ALEX DORDOY

Golfe du Morbihan (dusk) 2019 Acrylic on canvas 200 x 140 cm | 78 3/4 x 55 1/8 Sold

ALEX DORDOY

Golfe du Morbihan (dawn) 2019 202 BOWERY NEW YORK NY 10012

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ALEX DORDOY

Young Scottish Painters, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)

b. 1985 in Newcastle (UK)

2009

Winner, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)

Lives and works in London (UK)

2008

Alex Dordoy, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)

EDUCATION

Black Aspirin (with Neil Clements), The Project Rooms, Glasgow (UK)

2009

Residency Program, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)

When We Say Dive, We Mean Straight Down, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK)

2005

Undergraduate Exchange, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (US)

2007

No Man’s Land, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK)

2007

BA (hons) Painting/Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK)

2006

Reasons to Worry, A405 gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (US)

AWARDS

2008

Scottish Arts Council, Visual Arts Development Grant (UK)

2005

Fine Arts Exchange scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (US)

2003

Samling Foundation Residency, Kielder Forest (UK)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020

Ruin is Rune, GRIMM, New York (US)

2018

Summer’s Ego, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)

2017

The Moss is Dreaming, curated by Tom Morton, Blain|Southern, London (UK) From Svalbard Soil, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)

2015

Model T, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK)

2014

Sleepwalker, De Ateliers Debut Series, Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)

2013

2012

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

Away in the Hill, GRIMM, New York (US)

2018

Doodle & Disegno, Blain|Southern, Berlin (DE) Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels (BE)

2017

Future Eaters, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield East (AU)

2016

I still Believe in Miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (UK) What’s Up, Soho Revue and Union Club, London (UK) Use/User/Used, Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK)

2015

Crab Walk, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (UK) WINTERMUTE, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)

Persitencebeatsresistance, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (UK)

Against Automatism, Fused Space, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Fransisco (US)

Caster and Krast Crack Autumn, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)

Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do, KARST, Plymouth (UK)

I’d Planned a Cloud but it Took me by Surprise, ReMap4, Athens (GR)

THE NOING UV IT, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)

Alex Dordoy, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (DK)

2014

2010

Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)

Upstairs at the Modern Institute, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK) Demoscene, Hochstrasse 45, Berlin (with Neil Clements) (DE)

A Merman Should I Turn to Be, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (UK) Group Show, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)

Alex Dordoy, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (UK) 2011

Office Space, YBCA, San Francisco (USA)

2013

Does the it fit, Stephenson Works, Newcastle (UK)

Psychopomp Counsel, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)

Batman Electronic, Mikael Andresen, Berlin (DE)

Pirates, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)

Traces of Life, curated by Ariel Roger-Paris,


Wentrup, Berlin (DE) I’d planned a cloud but it took me by surprise, Remap4, Athens (GR) 2012

Recent British Painting, curated by Tom Morton, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) A House Leaves: Second Movement, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK)

2011

AKZO Nobel ARt Foundation, Amsterdam (NL) David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK)

Look with all Your Eyes, Look, Frith Street Gallery, London (UK)

Start Museum, Shanghai (CN)

Picasso in Paris, 1900-1907, Museu Picasso, Barcelona (SP) What You See is Where You’re at, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)

2009

Fears That I May Cease To Be Generator Projects, Dundee (UK)

2008

New Work Scotland, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) Neil Clements/Alex Dordoy/Morag Keil, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) Autarchy, SWG3 Warehouse, Glasgow (UK) Mamones Ready to Go!, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles (US) Art LA, Los Angeles (with The Modern Institute/Toby Webster ltd.) (US) Hell-o from Hell-a, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles (US) The Degree Show 2007, Glasgow School of Art (UK) Natural Geographic, Norma Desmond Productions, Los Angeles (US)

2006

Zabludowicz Collection (UK)

EKARD collection

Picasso in Paris, 1900-1907, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

2007

Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)

Into the Surface, Brand New Gallery, Milan (IT)

Psychopomp Counsel, Offspring De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)

2010

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Panoptican Event, The Panoptican, Glasgow (UK)

KRC Collection, Voorschoten (NL)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Future Eaters, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield East (AU) I aint the noing uv it im jus onle the showing uv it, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO) Alex Dordoy, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow (UK) Neil Clements – Alex Dordoy – Morag Keil, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)


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