Exhibition

'Erosion of Bodies, Spaces and Materials'
The Constantine Gallery, 10th November -16th December 2011

Opening Times:

9am - 4pm Mon - Friday
Closed on Weekends and Bank Holidays

Private View

Thursday 10th November 2011 6pm-8pm

Address

The Constantine Gallery,
Middlesbrough Tower, Teesside University,
Middlesbrough TS13BA UK
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About the Exhibition

In his work Christian Mieves has examined the site of the beach as a threshold which not only explores the transgression of two entities but which often eschews Western thought. The liminal site of the beach becomes here a metaphor for a semantically uncertain field, associated with a kind of Arcadia and, the other side of the same coin, Modernity. His paintings deal often with a certain ambiguity in its representation which does not allow a clear categorisation.

In his current work he focuses on the idea of erosion more broadly, extending the scope onto city environs and found, arbitrary objects. This allows him to explore the conceptual resonances of some of his earlier work and to develop a new trajectory for his artistic practice. For the purposes of this project, erosion is defined as that set of processes by which surfaces are worn, thinned or marked. It will be observed both on a formal ‘painterly’ level (the breaking up of the image surface), and more broadly in the decaying or disappearance of the object.