Adam Dant 10 October - 9 November, 2008 Opening Reception: Friday, 10 October. 7-9pm   click on thumbnails above to see larger images Press Release Temples and Theatres British artist Adam Dant has been compared to the 18th century English artist, William Hogarth, in satirically exposing human folly. Last year he spent six months in the offices of the major English hedge fund companies studying the architecture, appointments, and the socio-behavioral aspects of the participants. Recently he has been interested in architecture, especially buildings and public spaces. This exhibition of new work includes sepia ink drawings that incorporate European myths and histories into the architecture and public arenas of New York City—in effect, a view of the New World from the very Old. Dant’s method of transforming the familiar architecture of New York reveals a world of the everyday and of the individual’s aspirations and achievements that is infused with and conditioned by the beliefs, systems and cultural constants of society in general. In a series of works depicting the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the bridges’ hefty towers is transformed into cathedral doors of the gates of the Garden of Eden to frame various types of Adam and Eve figures; skeletal, historical, edible, etc. In another new sequence of drawings the vast concourse of Grand Central Station is occupied in each by a different oversize ‘beast.’ These prone and restrained creatures—a whale, an eagle, a bear—are all plundered as valuable commodities by numerous industrious figures. There will be two large-scale drawings; one of the Brooklyn Bridge as a triumphal arch, and the other—Monastery (Chrysler Building II) —of the Chrysler Building turned on its side so that it resembles a ship at dry-dock in the middle of a medieval monastery settlement. Canons point out the side windows and the levels that form the top of the building, which resemble the receding decks of a cruise ship, provide a place for tethered farm animals and various human activities. Adam Dant has significant artworks, in particular very large narrative drawings and maps in the collections of The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Government Art Collection, Musee de L’Art Contemporain, Lyon, MOMA New York, San Diego Museum of Art, Deutsche Bank and various other public and private collections. His work is currently on tour in the US as part of “Art and Advertising.” He has recently published two books with Redstone Press, London. Dant is currently working on a Museum show for Walsall Art Gallery, England and a major publication for 2010. CV Born 1967, Cambridge Lives and works in London Education 1989-91 Royal College of Art, Fine Art Printmaking, MA 1988 MS University Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda, India 1985-89 Liverpool School of Art, Graphic Design BA Hons, First Class Selected Solo Exhibitions 2007 Monuments and Menageries, Hales Gallery, London, UK 2006 The Fortification of Islington, Arts Council of England Commission, UK 2005 Standing Under, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York Donald Parsnips Daily Journal, Maroondah Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The Guild of Neologists, C.A.S commission 2004 Reading Children’s Police Force, Reading Public Art Commission 2003 Bureau for the Investigation of the Subliminal Image, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York The People Who Live on the Plank, Touring to The Drawing Room, London, UK Mead Gallery Warwick, The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2002 Your Tomorrow Better (Call Now), Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York 2001 The People Who Live on the Plank, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France Archive de Parsnips, Galerie Brighi, Paris, France 2000 Dant’s Maps, Map Gallery, London, UK 1999 The Institute of Coincidence, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Total Liquidation, Galerie Brighi, Paris, France 1998 Academy for the Improvement of the French Language, Galerie Brighi, Paris, France 1997 1000 Sung Artworks, Levi Strauss Store, Regents St, London, UK Selected Group Exhibitions 2007 Cult Fictions, Arts Council Touring Exhibition Text Messages, Adam Baumgold, New York 2006 How to improve the world, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Cezanne Centenary, Mas des Graviers, Provence, France Eye on Europe, MOMA, New York Pimps and Hookers, 1000000 mph Gallery, London, UK New News from Nowhere, William Morris Museum, London, UK 2005 Only Make Believe, Compton Verney, Oxfordshire, UK British Art, Laden Fur Nichts, Leipzig, Germany 2004 Voodoo Shit, Hales Gallery, London, UK John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2003 Independence, South London Gallery, UK Tirana Biennale Museum of Modern Art, Tirana, Albania 2002 Ganzfeld, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York The Map is not the Territory, England and Co, London, UK 2001 Vernacular Inscriptions, University of Calgary, Canada Funny, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK 2000 Out of Line, Arts Council Touring Exhibition Pertes & Profits, CNEAI, Chatou, France Nervous Kingdom, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester 1999 Indoor, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon Surfacing, ICA, London Relics of the A to Z, Atlas Press, London Sampling, Ronald Feldman, New York 1998 Dessin, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris Comic, Oldham City Art Gallery Loisirs, Glassbox, Paris Host, Tramway, Glasgow 1997 Kind of English, Die Box, Berlin Life Live, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris Centro Culturel, Belem, Lisbon New British Drawing, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York Questioning Office of Art, Tate Gallery, St Ives Printers Inc, Arts Council Touring Exhibition Picture Stories, Victoria Miro, London 1996-98 Owner and Curator of numerous exhibitions at Gallerette, London 1995-00 Publication and Distribution Internationally of Donald Parsnips Daily Journal Publications 2006 The Drawing Book, Black Dog Press 2003 & 2005 The Ganzfeld 2004 Situations, Black Dog Press The People Who Live On the Plank, Drawing Room Editions The London Art Gang Register Commission, Art Review: May 2004 2003 Tirana Biennale, Catalogue Opuscules, London Institute of Pataphysics 2001/ 02 Commissioned Artist for Tate Magazine, Winter 2000 / 02 Weekly Column for The Independent on Sunday 1995/ 02 Regular Column for Untitled Art Newspaper 1999 A to Z for the Effective Use of Your City Atlas Press 2000 Diary Cornerhouse Publications 1999 Indoor Edizioni Charta 1997 Lexicon de 1000 Paroles Nouveux, Galerie Brighi, Paris 1996 Substitude Ridiculousification and the Art of Donald Parsnips, Gallerette Awards and Scholarships 2002 Jerwood Drawing Prize, First Prize 1993-94 Eremo di S.Caterina Isola d’Elba, Italy Residency 1992-93 British School at Rome, Rome Scholar in Printmaking 1991 Cite International des Arts, Paris Studio Award 1991 Hochschule die Kunste, Berlin Erasmus Scholarship Collections Arts Council of England Collection BP Amoco Collection Government Art Collection HRH Prince of Wales Middlesborough Art Gallery Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon Museum of London Museum of Modern Art, New York Penguin Books Collection San Diego Museum of Art UBS Collection Victoria and Albert Museum Numerous Other Public and Private Collections
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