Pablo de Lillo
07 October - 30 October 2010
Exhibition: Spanish artist Pablo de Lillo uses drawing, painting, sculpture or collage to develop his work of shaped formal presence and symbolic ambiguity in a calculated installation that enhaces the dialogue between the work and the viewer.
Private View: to be confirmed
“Modernism is for him a huge store where he finds to take parts and pieces for his artistic bricolage. His objects and artifacts or drawings dont talk the utopian language of the pioneers, as they look much more like fragile and isolated words of a discontinued language .
Made of aluminium, fibreglass, cardboard or wood, his work adopts the form of an old modernist style building in south america or becomes a handmade replica of a bauhaus famous chair devored by mass production and middle class taste.
Revisiting the objects, buildings or artworks of our disillusioned past is the way Pablo de Lillo questions our complex present . His domestic scale works surround us like everyday objects, but its useles condition makes this aproach sometimes a disturbing experience althoug the elegance of its formal language.”
An Antidote to the Ghastly Turner Prize
7 October - 30 October 2010
Private View: THURSDAY 7 October 2010 18-21.00 All Welcome
The Stuckists, unified by commitment and enthusiasm yet diverse in themes and directions. Paintings with directness and conviction, strong, clear and colourful.
Sometimes not for the fainthearted but saved by candour and some satirical works which lift the mood of the work of the Stuckist group shows as a whole. Another Alladin’s Cave if ever there was one.
Having seen their first Liverpool show at the Walker Art Gallery the View Two Gallery was delighted to show the Stuckists in 2008 as part of the Independent Biennial when Liverpool was the European Capital of Culture .It was a popular and successful show. The exhibition was well received by people visiting the gallery and there was a good response to the work.
To single out individual artists is not the remit of this short piece although Eamon Everall’s Olympia 11 was sold and now sits handsomely on the living room wall in Ken Martins home.
The Stuckists second Exhibition at View Two in 2010 is a further feather in our cap.
Whilst smaller in the number of paintings in the exhibition includes a bargain wall —- an idea which will please the visitors to the gallery and also help the gallery with sales. View Two is a commercial gallery, a market place for lively art, music (see our website viewtwogallery.co.uk) and possibly a drink to enjoy the art a little more.
Image from the 2008 Stuckists Show at View Two
