GALLERY GUIDE
Opening hours: 10am-6pm, 7 days a week, last entry 5:30pm Please check the visitor information page to find out if the Gallery is open on a specific date: http://www.saatchigallery.co.uk/visitor/visitor.htm
Third Floor
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First Floor
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EXHIBITION ROOM 1
EXHIBITION ROOM 2 First Floor Exhibition - OUT OF FOCUS
Matt Lipps
Daniel Gordon
Meredyth Sparks
John Stezaker
David Noonan
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DANIEL GORDON
Portrait 2010 Chromogenic print 101.5 x 76 cm
Daniel Gordon describes himself as a photographer, “as straight as you can get”, before throwing a spanner in the works by adding that what he’s photographed never really existed. It’s the act of photographing that brings things into existence.
Daniel Gordon Portrait In Orange And Blue 2010 Chromogenic print 117 x 91.5 cm
By way of explanation, he relates a story of seeing a woman step on a
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pile of baby birds, though it turned out to have been a heap of shredded cardboard. The feeling he tries to
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convey in his work is the one felt in such a moment, when things suddenly turn out to be not what
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MATT LIPPS
Untitled (Stove) 2008 C-print 113 x 77 cm
Lipps’ dream-like Home series also deals with the past and another kind of yearning: the call of the wild. Father-figure Ansel Adams makes his appearance on this stage in the form of his Yosemite pictures, fragments of which float like clouds through mundane but reassuring domestic interiors – the maternal domain.
Untitled (Stove) 2008 C-print 113 x 77 cm
By way of explanation, he relates a story of seeing a woman step on a pile of baby birds, though it turned out to have been a heap of shredded cardboard. The feeling he tries to convey in his work is the one felt in such a moment, when things suddenly turn out to be not what you’d thought they were.
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JOHN STEZAKER
Old Mask VIII 2006 Collage 24.5 x 19.5 cm
John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’.
Old Mask IV 2006 Collage 24.5 x 19.5 cm
Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings.
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DAVID NOONAN
2006 Screen print on birch plywood 188 x 268 cm
Beginning each of his screen prints by making a collage, David Noonan brings together an eclectic array of found imagery – sourced from film stills, books, magazines, and archive photos – to create dramatic scenes that suggest surreal narratives.
Untitled 2006 Screen print on laminated plywood 188 x 133 cm
Printed in harsh contrast black and white, Noonan’s images encapsulate the romanticism of golden age cinema, and its associations to memory, fiction, and modern mythology.
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MEREDYTH SPARKS
Gudrun Constructed I-V - detail 2008 Digital scan, aluminium foil, glitter, vinyl 5 parts, each 152.4 x 106.7 cm
Meredyth Sparks enjoys exploring the zone between figuration and abstraction across a variety of subjects for which a plethora of images already exists: musical subcultures (bulimic in the idolatory-image department), the historical avant-garde and what she calls the “ever-evolving legacies of labor and gender-based issues�
Gudrun Constructed I-V - detail 2008 Digital scan, aluminium foil, glitter, vinyl 5 parts, each 152.4 x 106.7 cm
Like a number of her fellow artists in Out of Focus, she allows her works to step out of conventional frames and spill across floors and walls in quasiConstructivist style, following El Lissitzky’s realization that the picture frame had become too narrow for representations of ‘the new reality’.
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HOW TO ARRIVE
By Underground: The gallery is 3-4 minutes walk from Sloane Square Underground (District and Circle lines) and 10-12 minutes' walk from Victoria (Victoria, District & Circle lines).
Bus: 11,19,22,49,211,319 (King's Road), 11,137,211 (Lower Sloane Street).
By Train: The nearest mai nline railway station is Victoria. It is 10-12 minutes' walk from the gallery.
SCHEDULE: Monday - Sunday 10:00 - 18:00