'A Knight's Move' - Oliver Clegg at the Freud Museum, 2008

The title comes from Freud’s earliest reference to chess in ‘Studies on Hysteria’ (1893) where he relates the complex, zigzagging, move of the Knight to the twists and turns of the human mind in psychoanalysis. Central to Oliver Clegg’s project is his exquisite fabrication of an extraordinary chess set. This incorporates exact replicas of Freud’s famous desk with its anthropomorphic chair and his favourite antiquities as the chess pieces. The exhibition also comprises a series of specially conceived paintings, etchings and tapestries distributed throughout the house and includes an installation in the psychoanalyst’s famous study. A Knight’s Move explores the wider theme of play with paintings of strangely disarrayed children’s toys on old drawing boards and etchings that include images of Tarok cards and references to the poetry of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) both favourites of Freud. Clegg’s haunting images and installations evoke shadowy childhood fantasies and daydreams that provoke a volatile dichotomy between the real and imagined.

2 October - 23 November 2008.

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'A Knight's Move' – Oliver Clegg at the Freud Museum, 2008

Oliver Clegg (b.1980), is a multifaceted artist, capable of producing brilliantly conceived and meticulously executed works in a broad range of expressive disciplines. He often incorporates and reworks found objects with a history to them, like heavily inscribed and paint-splattered ex-art school drawing boards or pages from old diaries and books. His paintings with their rich surfaces and haunting subject matter have a dark brooding tension that evoke ambiguous narratives, transient dreams and shadowy childhood memories. Although he tends to excel at using traditional materials and techniques his work retains a powerful conceptual edge and the press have hailed him as a ‘rising star’ of the London contemporary art scene.

2 October - 23 November 2008.

Curated by James Putnam and produced in association with RS&A

Links:-

<www.freud.org.uk> <www.r-s-a.co.uk> <www.oliverclegg.com>

Anila Rubiku - Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, 2009

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Anila Rubiku was born in Durres (Albania), 1970 and currently lives and works in Milan. Her recent project 'Urban Pornitecture' consists of architectural models, embroidery and video installation

Link:-

www.galleriabagnai.it

Andreas Hofer - The Freud Museum/Hauser & Wirth, 2009

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Andreas Hofer was born in 1963 in Munich and lives in Berlin. He has had solo exhibitions in 2007 in the MARTa Museum in Herford (The Long Tomorrow), at Metro Pictures in New York (Only Gods Could Survive) and in Paris (Sweet Troubled Souls), presented by Hauser & Wirth Zu�Nrich, London and Silverbridge. Sta�Ndtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich dedicated the first comprehensive museum exhibition to Hofer in 2005, entitled Welt ohne Ende (World without end). He will create a special new site-specific project for the Freud Museum, London in 2009. .            

Link:-

http://www.ghw.ch/artists/portrait.php?findexisting=1&artist_id=95

Miroslaw Balka - The Freud Museum/White Cube Gallery

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"Contemporary time does not exist, we cannot catch the continuous. As we move ever into the future we are always based in the past. This is the state of my sculpture, there is heat from this pillow, and its impossible to catch, this continuous flow. As soon as you touch it, it's colder than it was at its source. Everything we touch is coming from the past, it's our access to death. For me the important thing in art is to try to catch that consciousness of life." Miroslaw Balka lives and works in Poland and has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally.

Link:-

http://www.whitecube.com/artists/balka/