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Wm Turner gallery launches with its inaugural show,
“The End of the World,” a solo exhibition of works by Matthew Rose
SHOW DATES: September 18–October 15, 2008
OPENING CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION WITH ARTIST: September 18, from 6 to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Wm Turner gallery, at The Stove Works, 112 Krog St., Ste. 9, 404-660-4337, www.wmturnergallery.com
From the creative genius of the former art director of Art & Antiques magazine comes Wm Turner gallery, a thoroughly modern and contemporary fine art gallery specializing in hard-to-find but renowned international artists. Owner David Turner has cultivated his training in the arts and business toward the goal of one day opening his own space to display well-edited works from artists around the world. “My global art focus is contemporary,” says Turner. “The artists hail from as far away as India and Europe, and as close by as Houston, Texas.” Turner plans to produce 12 shows a year in his new gallery space on Krog Street (next door to Rathbun’s beloved restaurant).
The inaugural show is Parisian Matthew Rose’s “The End of the World.” Rose, a U.S.-born artist now living and working in France, is a humorist in his art. “The end of the world is near,” claims Rose about his new series. And in his showing of new drawings, collages and surrealist prints at the new Wm Turner gallery, he proves his point. The world ends not in a bang, not in a whimper, but in a traumatic fit of über-consciousness. Among the works on display in Rose’s solo exhibition is his “A Perfect Friend” collection. With “A Perfect Friend,” the artist reinvigorated and personalized surrealism, combining vintage and popular images of the 1920s and 1930s, often with children’s science drawings from the 1950s, photographs from grammar books, and bits of detritus he found. The “stories” that issued from each of these pages were ink-jet printed.
The collages mixes sex and promiscuity, chemistry and character. A snarling English setter’s head is rooted firmly to the elegant torso of a 17th-century Dutchman; in others, a startled hostess balances a head of plates on her neck, a swan reads a libretto while at the opera, and a porn queen balances a kitten on her hairdo.
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