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12/10/2006

Obsession

Sartorial Contemporary Art, London

an idea or feeling that completely occupies the mind

curated by Robin Mason

With: Allman.Mason Debra Allman Andy Bannister Ann-Caroline Breig Michael Buhler Tony Carter Gerald Davies Teresita Dennis Zavier Ellis Tessa Farmer Conrad Frankel Shelly Goldsmith Andrew Grassie Takayuki Hara Barnaby Hosking Jane Howarth Katarina Ivanisin James Jessop Tatsuya Kimata Mette Klarskov Larsen Gretta Sarfaty Marchant Robin Mason Hektor Mamet Hugh Mendes Gavin Nolan Kate Palmer Tim Parr Hideyuki Sawayanagi Wendy Smith Amikam Toren James Unsworth Stephen Walter

Obsession is enjoyable, annoying, frustrating, dangerous and often unavoidable. Obsession, obsessive practices or obsessive subjects can move artists onto higher planes of experience and expression. The artists' obsessions have a quality that will reward the viewer with a fascinating journey into creative thinking. The cerebral will rub shoulders with the satirical, while the minimal will sit alongside the kitsch. From obsessions with the self, the erotic, the geometric, replication, death and more, this exhibition serves as an obsessive collection of artists and art works born out of obsession. A celebration of creative impulses, this will showcase works by some of the country's leading established and new emerging artists. It is hoped that this exhibition will slowly reveal a glimpse of something wonderful.

Selected obsessions in the artists' own words

Debra Allman Obsession: Chasing Why' The potential of a flat sheet of metal to evolve through the use of process, using small tools and hammers into a hollow, organic contemporary form through a process that is thousands of years old is compulsive.

Andy Bannister Obsession: Disused Public Conveniences Why' I have been considering making a work which refers to this building for a long time. I grew up in its vicinity, and from an early age was aware of it as a notorious, even dangerous place, having heard lurid stories about the goings-on that allegedly took place in there from the neighbouring kids that I grew up with.

Ann-Caroline Breig Obsession: Urban Eroticism Why' Living in the city arouses sexual desires. The competitive environment evokes the need of external expression.

Teresita Dennis Obsession: Compulsion Why' The promise of painting.......A Time opened, by a longing for myself. It seems that in the gap between desiring to paint and the acts of making I am forced to negotiate that I have a body and a life to which it corresponds. Face to face with painting, aren't we confronted and called to respond'

Tessa Farmer Obsession: The Miniature Why' The skeleton fairies came to life around 1999, they were much larger (6-7 cm height), with leaf skeleton wings. They amassed in swarms and were mischievous, but not especially bad. Being a perfectionist I decided to see how small I could make the fairies.

Conrad Frankel Obsession: Obscure Self-Portraits Why' People are always thinking about themselves, but they are not always looking at themselves. I have spent years on end watching myself, often for 4 or 5 hours a day... The mirror is my movie camera and I aspire to being Marlon Brando...

Takayuki Hara Obsession: Childhood Sexuality Why' Being aware of my sexuality in my childhood, in the Japanese tight-structured society, I repressed my sexual desires not to let people know. That repression over a long period of time consequently grew bigger and became distorted, and it became an obsession which I don't have a control with, more like a vicious monster inside of me.

James Jessop Obsession: Graffiti Why' I don't know why for sure, but when I was younger it was to do with doing something beautiful and energetic looking in a place you're not allowed to paint or draw..

Mette Klarskov Larsen Obsession: Condition of Life - Hole in the Heart Why' Because even though I believe my body is strong, I still see life as being fragile. I do not know what will happen tomorrow or next week or in a few years time.

Gretta Sarfaty Marchant Obsession: Self Image Why' I am obsessed with my self-image and the repetition of it. I duplicate the same image several times to the point of creating visual patterns that have a kaleidoscopic effect. Perhaps this is caused by the fact I am dyslexic; I want to make sure I am understood.

Robin Mason Obsession: Constant use of Metaphor Why' Because I can't help it and now in a period of contemporary practice that enjoys a freedom of quotation and reference from any or many moments in the historic past to the present, without constraint, the doctrines of movements have lost their ability to censor

Gavin Nolan Obsession: The Bloody Never Ending Cycle of Life and Death Why' Because of the Bloody Never Ending Cycle of Life and Death.

Kate Palmer Obsession: Bereavement Why' Following a personal bereavement I started a series of drawings and writing that allowed me to enter into and explore my relationship with myself, my practice and my situation

James Unsworth Obsession: The Grotesque Image of the Body Why' Initially an interest in low/peasant humour. More likely Sexual frustration

PV Thursday October 12th 6.30 - 9pm

Sartorial Contemporary Art
101A Kensington Church Street, London W8 7LN (tube Notting Hill)
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