HADLEY + MAXWELL
January 24, 2008 — February 23, 2008
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Untitled, 2007 watercolour and pencil on apaper | Colour Field for Charlie, 2008 Vintage Ludwig Snare drum (1967), Wittner mahogany metronome, event carpet, par 56 stage light with tripod and red filter, custom finish. | Ok, We'll Try for a Groove (Mick), 2007 Silkscreen print, edition of 5 |
HADLEY + MAXWELL
Exhibition extended till February 23rd!
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects is pleased to welcome the dynamic Berlin-based Vancouver duo Hadley + Maxwell who will mount a special project for the gallery. Following upon their acclaimed 1 + 1 – 1 multi- media installation recently shown at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, Berlin, in this exhibition the artists will create pieces in a range of media adapted to the gallery space. Hadley + Maxwell’s chosen social and political subjects are seen through the lens of popular culture and considered through moving image, sound, drawing, painting and sculpture. In this ensemble of objects and images the script of Jean-Luc Goddard’s film Sympathy for the Devil is brought together with the filmmaker’s footage of sessions of the Rolling Stones rehearsing their hit song of the same title.
Hadley + Maxwell have collaborated and exhibited their work in Canada, the United States and abroad since 1998. Born in 1973 and 1966 respectively, the duo has created film sets, opera and dance productions, as well as conceptual works in all media. In 2005 they were recipients of the prestigious VIVA award. Their work was the subject of a solo exhibition, Deleted Scenes, at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, in 2006 and the same year work from their Décor series was included in Habitat at Jessica Bradley Art + Projects. In December 2007 their video work was included in the Art Basel Miami video lounge curated by Michael Darling, curator of contemporary art at the Seattle Art Museum.
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects at ARCO '08 Madrid, Feb 13 - 18
The gallery has been invited by this prestigious international art fair to present a special installation of photographic works entitled Vanités, conceived by the Montreal artist Nicolas Baier. Baier's Vanités project consists of an assemblage of photographs of antique mirrors whose surfaces have been altered to accentuate their decrepit condition. The effect of this work is at once like a salon-style hanging of paintings - each mirror evoking images that paradoxically recall classic modernist abstract paintings - and at the same time, a hall of mirrors in which we find other worlds rather than our own reflection. The use of the mirror also recalls its iconic presence in Vanitas painting of earlier eras.
Artists:
Nicolas Baier