Rooster Gallery is pleased to present 1:3 LIGHT, an exhibition curated by Sara G. Arjona and featuring the work of RU Alum Marian Tubbs, Alejandro Botubol, Philip Emde and Yann Pocreau.
Light has been an eternal problem in art, apart from the obvious tensions between matter and representation, light is also a very powerful metaphor. It is a meaning engine directly connected to the mysteries of creation, perception, and its opposite, the paranoia of the hidden and the obscure.
But in the contemporary world, the era of the screen, a new kind of light is present, a light that suggests utopia, apocalypse, inspiration, stupidity, connection and isolation, all at the same time: the light of the virtual, artificial light.
The work of the artists featured in 1:3 LIGHT shares some concerns and obsessions in regards to the notion of light. By probing its limits on a mental or on a physical level, the exhibition becomes a contemporary meditation on the possibilities of light, a collective laboratory, a particle accelerator that explores ways of manipulating energy to produce insights, experiences and thoughts.
Through his work, Yann Pocreau emphasizes mysticism and the spectacle. The light of Pocreau transforms buildings into gothic chasms and objects become poetic statements. Philip Emde casts a shadow of dark emotions that contrasts with the vivid colors of the background. Marian Tubbs works with artificial icons in a limbo-space created with the light of the virtual. Alejandro Botubol works on the marriage of artificial and natural light. In this exhibition he plays with monochrome xylographies and the intensity of fluorescent paint that vibrates in every brushstroke, emitting its own light.
The viewer’s rods and cones will therefore be stimulated and it is up to the viewer to either dodge or be seduced by the photons in 1:3 LIGHT.
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