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                Michael Craig-Martin : Alphabets and Sunsets

               12 June - 19 July 2008  @ 34 Cork Street
   
         

This exhibition includes new silkscreen prints, digital animations and light boxes.

Throughout his career, Craig-Martin has explored the aesthetic and linguistic character of everyday, designer and most recently iconic ‘art-historical’ objects. In the new Alphabet prints, outlines of familiar objects from his recognisable vocabulary - an umbrella, a glove, a glass - are set against a background of vivid monochrome colour and overlaid with a single letter. In some cases there appears to be a link between the object and letter and in others the connection is more ambiguous.
 
For this exhibition, the artist has also completed his first series of digital inkjet prints, Tokyo Sunsets, which again draws upon his vocabulary of generic and iconic objects, only this time set against a backdrop of vivid colours which graduate seamlessly from one print to the next.

 Craig-Martin has long embraced the computer as a tool for working on ideas and compositions and now he has expanded his oeuvre to include digital animations. He uses the computer both as a vehicle for display and as the tool for aesthetic decision-making. In both Coming and Going, each object is drawn separately by the artist, but the composition we see is the result of a constantly evolving, randomly generated combination of these objects. In Going his well known vocabulary of images appear and disappear and in Coming, classic iconic objects from twentieth century art history (Duchamp, Johns, LeWitt, Judd, Andre etc) randomly appear and disappear to create an ever-changing and unpredictable artwork.




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