Relational Extravaganza : Arbitrary Dreams

Curated by Christina Mitrentse Projectswww.cmitrentseprojects.com

7 April - 13 April 2015

Alex Bunn, Jonas Ranson, Katrina Kotcheff, Nana & Felix, Sumer Erek,

Gareth Lloyd, Yutaka Inagawa, Naoya Inose

COVER/BACK IMAGE: JONAS RANSON - Maison De RetraiteHand –pulled CMYK Screen print on 285gsm fabriano avorio paper,

ltd of 15 signed & numbered, 80x60cm

£750 framed and £350 unframed

8 Clarendon Cross | W11 4APlaceycontemporarygallery.co.uk

Lacey Contemporary Gallery is proud to present ‘Relational Extravaganza : Arbitrary Dreams’ a dynamic multi-media group

exhibition encompassing a collection of painting, photography, print and sculpture, created by eight carefully selected,

emerging artists, and curated by Christina Mitrentse Projects. The exhibition reveals the artists diverse working processes,

styles, medium and scale. The seductively deceptive artworks offer a case study of the aesthetical interaction between nature,

seduction, & commodification. While the selected artists produce an assortment of highly stimulating visual data, there is a

common thread holding the works together –in search of Aesthetic Forms and their Opposites, they echo abstraction.

ALEX BUNN

Oslo based British artist Alex Bunn, creates supersensory large scale images that explore fresh realms of

combined sculpture and photography, and they reconcile disparate perspectives on the world around us.

Bunn's work can be seen as an attempt to reconcile the various models, modes and statuses we employ to

navigate and engage with the cosmos without compromising it's natural disorder. Alex Bunn’s work has been

exhibited at the Frieze Art Fair, The Royal Institution, in solo shows at Aubin Gallery, Another Roadside

Attraction Gallery Unit24 in London as well as in New York, Tokyo and Stockholm.

ALEX BUNN - Defixion Trap Giclee print on board

150x 150x10cm 2015

£2700

ALEX BUNN - PumpGiclee print on board

150x 150x10cm 2015

£2700

Gareth Lloyd is a painter who studied technical and industrial drawing at Berkshire College of Art and

completed a post-graduated fine art degree at St Martins School of Art. His doctoral research in philosophy

at the University of London, examined 'Image' in the light of Derrida's notion of 'Return Inquiry'. Drawing

inspiration from the cinema, Lloyd plays with iconography, but the icons at its heart are not those of classical

painting, they stem instead from the kind of imagery that has become iconic merely because of the role it

has played in all our everyday histories.

- Paul Ryan Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

GARETH LLOYD

GARETH LLOYD - Dreaming Milk & HoneyPrint, paper, oil, graphite and gesso, milk & honey on Masonite

152 x91cm with oak frame, 2014

£3500

JONAS RANSON

Jonas Ranson is an established British screen-printer and graduate of the Royal College of Art. His images

engage with the aesthetic experience that emerges from perceiving boundless landscape. Through obtrusive

fractures, darkness, obscurity, privation and vastness, the images encompass subjects relating to the apocalyptic,

biblical, and the sublime. The Landscapes become a metaphysical realm for the purging of emotional trauma.

Jonas Ranson work is a part of significant national public collections including Pallant House Gallery.

JONAS RANSON - Gone To EarthHand pulled ,Screen print on paper

ltd of 15 signed & numbered, 100x70cm

£750 framed and £350 unframed

NANA & FELIX

Nana & Felix is a Korean-Finnish artist duo who work on photography-based project and are based in Finland.

For this exhibition they present new work from their popular ‘Ways of Seeing’ series. They re-document and

re-assemble what they see in those desire-oriented found, public, and superficial images, present in their

everyday environment, both online and offline, in order to question their ways of seeing. Through a

photographic play, Felix reproduces and distorts the image with the aim of questioning which one is the

referent and which the representation. Nana cuts and freely assembles these photographs, in order to

reconstruct and to translate the same repetitive nature of the image while questions the ontological state

of Nybergh´s photographs. Nana & Felix have won many awards and their work is in collection at City of

Turku, Finland.

NANA & FELIX - 5mm of Ibid – Ways of Seeing Series60 inject prints, shredded photograph placed on a mirror

60x75cm, 2013

£3200

NANA & FELIX - SoMe 01 (faces)mixed media

60 x 68 x 10 cm , 2015

£3500

NANA & FELIX - SoMe 02 (bodies)mixed media

43 x 50 x 8 cm, 2015

£3500

NAOYA INOSE

Naoya Inose is a Japanese painter and graduate from Tokyo University of the Arts, with a BA in Oil Painting.

He is currently based in London . His works are included in Takahasi Collection FONDAZIONE BENETTON.

Inose work explores the tension between the natural world and its grasping appropriation by human

influence. Drawing from traditional genre of painting, Inose uses oil paint techniques to create both

meticulously realistic landscapes, and abstract oil paintings on canvas which question our perception of and

relationship to nature, and the paintings’ historical and current role.

NAOYA INOSE - Untitledacrylic on canvas

10x10cm

£550

NAOYA INOSE - Commonplacesoil, acrylic, alkyd, gesso, pencil on canvas

18x14cm, 2013

£900

NAOYA INOSE - Escape Acrylic, alkyd, Oil on canvas

60x60cm, 2015

NFS (private collection)

SUMER EREK

Sumer Erek is a multi-disciplinary conceptual creator with

extensive experience in public art installation,

creating large-scale works and participatory projects in the

UK and abroad. He studied an MA in Theory and

Practice of Transnational Art at Camberwell – UAL. In his

site specific sculptural installation The Sound of

Cicadas on five finger mountains, Mountains and cicadas

becomes the metaphor for the politicised nature of our

created existence. This installation is made from tiles of

scaled-down images of the mountains, like the war game

console. Empty cicadas shells, collected from Cyprus and

filled with dye, gather the reminiscent of cataleptic existence,

and further investigates the conflict between the nature and

man; individual and society.

SUMER EREK - The Sound of Cicadas on five finger mountainsinstallation mixed media

74x107x75 cm, 2015

£3200

(detail)

YUTAKA INAGAWA

Japanese artist Yutaka Inagawa graduated with an MA from Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2004. He has

been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in France, U.S, Japan, Seoul, Shanghai and London. Yutaka’s

diverse body of work stems from his fascination with the notion of deceptiveness and integrity in digital

photo manipulation and painting. This gradual shift in reality and perception manifest itself as a form of

enigmatic complexity in the artist’s detailed oil paintings. A twisted fusion of the West and Japan, blurs the

seriousness of identity and race.

YUTAKA INAGAWA - Shoulder-Oompj-Kouros 1oil on canvas

70x62cm, 2014

£1700

YUTAKA INAGAWAShoulder-Oompj-Kouros 2oil on canvas

70x62cm, 2014

£1700

YUTAKA INAGAWAMatter-Of-Fact

oil on canvas

70x62cm, 2014

£1700

KATRINA KOTCHEFF

Born in London Katrina Kotcheff is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, film, installation, and

drawing. She studied architecture and BA Fine Art at the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design

and has since worked in UK film and television. She has exhibited widely in group art shows and

galleries in East London. She also exhibited at theVenice Biennale as part of Personal Structures: ‘Culture/

Mind/ Becoming’ exhibition. In this show she presents photographic works from her personal archive, or in

this case Anti-archive; as through a random event, a collection of photographs were damaged by water,

separating out the colour chemical processes, they are transformed into new evocative images. This

destruction is the very thing that brings them new life, connecting water and memory. Photographs Grass

Cloud I and II were originally taken (1987) on a sea wall in The Wash in Norfolk where the land has been

reclaimed over time from the sea. In Rainbow Head, a portrait of the artist (1990 ), the hair has turned into

a myriad of colours, framing the face creating an other worldly landscape..

KATRINA KOTCHEFF - Grassland CloudColour Photographic Giclee prints

edition of 10, signed & numbered

68x45cm, 2015

£800

KATRINA KOTCHEFF - SeawallColour Photographic Giclee prints

edition of 10, signed & numbered

68x45cm, 2015

£800

RELATIONAL EXTRAVAGANZA : ARBITRARY DREAMS

7 April - 13 April 2015