LUXNEWSWIRE - The Unnamable: Sebastian Buerkner. PV invite Wed 19 April

[newswire at lux.org.uk]

You are invited to the private view of
the first part of The Unnamable
- SEBASTIAN BUERKNER -
Wednesday 19 April 6-9pm


Lounge
28 Shacklewell Lane, London E8

THE UNNAMABLE
a Lounge/LUX project
20 April – 28 May 2006
Opening hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 1 – 6pm

Lounge and LUX are pleased to present the debut London solo show of  
Sebastian Buerkner (20-30 April), the first of three two-week solo  
shows by three emerging artists.

With a nod to Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable is loosely themed around  
the notion of gaps in language and experience: the primæval stratum  
to everyday existence, the background hum of subjective states which  
never quite break through into the world of speech, commerce and  
common sense. This inchoate stream of velleities and half-fleshed  
fantasies can be unspeakably trivial, or unutterably disturbing.

The  works presented in The Unnamable each, in their different ways,  
evoke these subliminal states. Sebastian Buerkner’s The Conversation  
involves an ongoing attempt to develop visual dictionaries, a shadow  
language of images which are associated with particular sounds or  
words, but which gradually take on a life of their own. Laure  
Prouvost’s Abstractions Quotidiennes are synaesthetic stories in  
which abject details, examined in tactile close-up, give rise to  
elaborate and macabre fictions. Duncan Campbell’s Falls Burns Malone  
Fiddles examines a series of photographs from a Belfast community  
archive, as the narrator questions not only his own position as  
observer but his very existence.


Individual Show Dates
Sebastian Buerkner
20 - 30 April 2006 (Private view Wednesday 19 April, 6 - 9pm)

Laure Prouvost
4 - 14 May 2006   (Private view Wednesday 3 May, 6 - 9pm)

Duncan Campbell
18 - 28 May 2006 (Private view Wednesday 17 May, 6 - 9pm)

Transport
Rail: Dalston Kingsland
Bus: 67 76 149 236 243
Tube: Highbury & Islington, then 30/38 bus to Dalston Junction

www.lux.org.uk/theunnamable
www.lounge-gallery.com

Sebastian Buerkner was born in Berlin in 1975. He studied Fine Art,  
at University of Halle/Saale in Germany and Chelsea College in  
London. Having initially worked in sculpture, he has recently begun  
to work with Flash animation. His video work has been included in a  
number of shows, including Pilot 2, London (2005) and Centre of  
Attention at the Rio, London (2005), and he has recently been  
commissioned to make a film for broadcast on Channel 4 by the  
animate! scheme (www.animateonline.org). He lives and works in London.

The Unnamable is supported by funding from Arts Council England


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