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SUMMARY:Alan Rankle "Pastoral Collateral"
DESCRIPTION:Art Bermondsey Project Space is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of paintings by\nAlan Rankle\nPastoral Collateral \n4-30 April 2016\n  \nIn association with Maerz Contemporary\, Berlin \n  \nAlan Rankle was born in Lancashire in 1952. His first exhibition dates back to 1973\, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts of London.\nPastoral Collateral is a suite of new paintings that follows on from shows in Copenhagen\, Milan and Berlin. The show coincides with the launch of his new book Alluvione di Nero commissioned by the Marriott Resort and Spa in Venice. Rankle revitalises the tradition of landscape art within the context of our post-industrial\, and arguably pre-apocalyptic\, world. In his works he fuses aspects of Classical/Romantic painting with Abstract Expressionistic gestures.\n  \n\nCatalogue available\nPress contact Serenella Martufi\n\nsm@project-space.london \n0203 441 5152\n  \nPastoral Collateral\nby \nJudy Parkinson \nFollowing on from major shows in Copenhagen\, Milan and Berlin\, Alan Rankle arrives in London with a suite of new paintings ‘Pastoral Collateral’ in which he continues his preoccupation with revitalising the tradition of landscape art within the context of our post-industrial\, and arguably pre-apocalyptic\, world.\nRankle fuses aspects of Classical/Romantic painting with Abstract Expressionistic gestures; he paints trompe l’oeil elements as though from a 19th Century naturalist’s journal.  He knowingly references conceptual asides to provide an undercurrent of contemporary unease.  All these elements collide as portentous montages in the paintings\, depicting a world splintering and fragmenting towards chaos\, yet still evoking an eerie\, and somehow threatening\, illusion of harmony. \nIn 1998 the critic\, Anthony Wallersteiner observed that Rankle’s paintings “represent re-workings of a single theme: that of a sudden encounter with a dark edge of water – a pond or river – on the outskirts of the city. A place reeking of desolation and the potential energy of decay\, the meeting of urban and rural landscape.”  Now in the 21st Century that dark edge looms between our whole planet and the abyss. \nAs with much of Rankle’s work this evolving series has a multi-layered aspect. The 2007 title ‘Formal Concerns’ for example refers to the way “abstract” artists of the 1970s\, when Rankle was a student\, would distance their work from an involvement with “ordinary life” and political issues by using the term to describe their aims. It refers also to the belated pronouncement by the British Government’s Chief Scientist who recently expressed “Formal Concerns” on the subject of Global Warming.  Further to this\, the title could be considered in the light of Rankle’s interest in the formal structures within the Baroque and Modernist paintings he emulates. \nIndividual painting titles: ‘Hybrid’\, ‘Landscape with Electrostatic’\, ‘Fællenparken: Ice Shelf’\, ‘Picturesque: Industrial Memoir of the Earth & Air’\, ‘Running from the House’ and ‘Pastoral Collateral’ add to an informed reading of these works. \nPutting all of these social and political implications aside (as Robert Smithson once put it “sooner or later politics comes and bites the artist in the ass”)\, Rankle is equally keen to state his intention is essentially to create a language for landscape art in modern times. \n  \nPress images on request. \n  \nTel: 0203 441 5152 \n  \n[row][one_col] \n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n[/one_col][/row] \nphotos by Alice Cox
URL:https://project-space.london/event/alan-rankle-pastoral-collateral-2
LOCATION:Gallery 1\, 183 - 185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events
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