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From: standpoint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "vip-exhibitions.2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FW: The Beautiful and the Useless
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:50:15 +0000
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From: "Nik Ramage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 23:26:34 -0000
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Subject: The Beautiful and the Useless
Standpoint Gallery
The Beautiful and the Useless
works by Claire Brewster and Nik Ramage
Private view: Thursday 16 January,
6-9pm
Exhibition Open: 17 January-15 February 2003
Gallery Open: Wednesday - Saturday, 12-6
pm
Nearest Tube: Old Street (Northern Line -
Bank Branch) Exit 2
For further information contact: Rebecca Finney 020 7739 4921 /
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Claire Brewster 07940 818781 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nik Ramage 07976 314302 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Beautiful and the Useless is about retrieving the discarded, celebrating
the unwanted and
giving new life to the obsolete.
In between glossy retail consumption and the rubbish dump, is the
netherworld of second-hand. It is in this netherworld that the artists
Claire Brewster and Nik Ramage find the inspiration and raw materials for
their work, though each artist proceeds to a different conclusion. Claire
Brewster composes wall-based collages (some of which are complemented with
sound installations); Nik Ramage constructs 3-D 'machines. However, both aim
to reanimate their finds in order to create new and unexpected things from
old and discarded stuff.
Claire Brewster has a passion for collecting ephemera and images found when
rummaging through the detritus that turns up at car boot fairs and charity
shops. Brewster enjoys the serendipity of these finds, the idea that they
are lost items, no longer wanted by their original owner and abandoned to
their fate, awaiting rescue and to be given a new lease of life. These
recovered things are starting points for the collaged images, combining
diverse pictorial elements with sound installation, Claire Brewster makes
works with lyrical, rhythmical and theatrical qualities.
Nik Ramage makes machines from a pre-digital age. Opposed to machines made
for industrial or domestic use, designed to be labour saving and efficient,
Ramage1s constructions are non-utilitarian and fragile. Assembled with
components from obsolete devices, he embraces the damaged and worn-out. Some
of the machines work relentlessly at their tasks for the world of the almost
useful; others with more hesitant actions struggle under their loads,
attempting to get somewhere or do something but are continually thwarted.
This is technology from the shadows - absurd , paradoxical and on the verge
of giving up.
Private view bar kindly sponsored by
Standpoint 45 Coronet Street London N1 6HD tel/fax: 020 7739 4921
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registration Number 3437596Charity Number 1064750/0
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