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6 June - 5 August 2001
Mark Bynon
Bynon's earlier works have consisted of small groups of objects that appear to be paintings, each with the same lacquered gold and silver leaf surface as De-Sign, installed in (or around) the corners of exhibition spaces. Bynon lives and works in London, is a graduate of the Byam Shaw School of Art and gained his MA at The Unieversity of Northumbria. His exhibitions have included Fresh Art at the Business Design Centre, London; Located at The Globe Gallery, North Shields and Sweetie at The levi Gallery, London. Luke Oxley
Oxley graduated from the MA course at Goldsmith's College in 2000. He is known particularly for installations created within non-gallery spaces. His British exhibitions have included New Contemporaries 1999, Club at Beaconsfield, Tardis at Tardis Studios and Mighty Real at Dazed and Confused Gallery. He also took park in April Fools, Sao Paulo in 2000. Showing concurrently will be another new project by Oxley at Habitat, Tottenham Court Road, that will involve packaging the exhibtion space with bubble wrap and packaging tape printed with familiar messages from advertisements. |
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During
June and July Bynon will be presenting a new work De-Sign
conceived specially for the plaza at The Economist building. De-Sign
consists of two shimmering cubes, each approximately two feet
square, placed on waist high stone plinths. Many layers of lacquer
and pigment encase these carefully crafted wooden boxes that have,
respectively, a delicate covering of gold and silver leaf.
Oxley's
installation Scheme was commissioned for the foyer of The
Economist building. It consists of 500 two-feet-square cardboard
boxes placed in an L-shaped bank around the exhibition space. On
each face of every box a word from the phrase Your Future Dream
is a Shopping Scheme (a line of street graffitti that Oxley
observed) is printed in stretched black lettering. The boxes,
placed randomly within their L-shaped configuratin, avoid any immediate
reading forcing the viewer to decipher the message.