Coleman Project Space is proud to present, ‘Cosmic Laziness’, an exhibition of new works by painter Tim Renshaw and a film installation by Swiss artist Klodin Erb.
The notebook is the central motif for Renshaw’s concise series of works on metal that present a variety of architectural painterly propositions. Hung in pairs, they operate much like the pages of a book; each ground at once implying the sense of an object of many layers and, collectively, a set of surfaces in conversation across the margins.
Renshaw is known for his beautiful, meticulously manufactured paintings of Modern structures. In recent years he has been playing with the idea of the painted surface as page and form as notation, as part of his ongoing creation of a visual shorthand for organisational systems synonymous with the built environment. His hybrid entities leave one with the sense of having encountered them before, that they may already exist somewhere in the mind as a result of a previous encounter, whether in reality or reproduction.
Motifs once mirrored upon, or sharing the space of, a single surface have become twinned towns on separate grounds. This encourages investigation of the multiple layers of each image and of the painting as a possible entity that might be flipped through, or book-marked at a particular point of interest. The notebook also refers to the importance of research processes to Renshaw’s studio practice and the fact that the key architectural point of reference here is remembered, not from experience, but a photocopied image reproduced from a book.
Coleman Projects
94 Webster Road, Bermondsey, London, SE16 4DF
Dates 27 October – 25 November
Times Fri,Sat, Sun, 12-6
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