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| Event: | Marta Marce - A Riflemaker Exhibition |
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Riflemaker Gallery, Soho, London |
| Date: | Monday 5th June 2006 |
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MARTA MARCE PASEJERO Collectors Private View Monday 5th June 2oo6 6.3o - 9.oo
In her second solo show at Riflemaker - a bold new exhibition of large scale paintings and, for the first time, sculpture - Catalonia born, London-based artist Marta Marce continues her previous conceptual investment in game theory and universal methodologies of play by exploring through the relationship between the dual forces of order and chaos as they manifest themselves in the play of the ancient stick game of Mikado.
In Pasejero, using the given framework of Mikado, wherein players cast sticks in order to read them like an oracle, Marce conducts and exploits her painterly mode to unearth, in every line and colour decision, something fundamentally human in the idea of the game.
It is in Mikado that Marce sees a perfect demonstration of the fundamental balance of binary forces in the world, the game representing an energetic example of the complex plays of life in which we are all continually engaged.
In casting down our lot - by playing the game - we actively engage the dual forces of order and chaos. This idea is equally extendable to the microcosm of the painter's world. In painting, via practice-based development, the rules of the medium are established and a methodological order is set.
Ever existstant however, is the potential to challenge this order through the spontaneous gesture and passionate uncontrolled movement of inspired creative action.
Marce then, as an artist who continues to reinvent her painterly medium with an unceasing zest and originality, is at one with this schism, understanding both order and chaos as necessarily coexistent forces.
Considering these works we must appreciate as apparent a three fold relationship between the game, painting and life itself. By investigating this trinity, Marce re-energises her work with a beautifully raw essential force.
A clear and apparent élan reels outwards from Marce’s canvases, and now in a radical new development, for the first time in London, she introduces a three dimensional element into her oeuvre with one of the central works in the show being a fully interactive version of Mikado.
By exploiting the dynamics of the game, Marce relates some fundamental realities intimate to the energetic ecology of existence itself. Once again, come and be lost in the joy of play while discovering some of the vital complexities intrinsic to the games we all participate in.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT VIRGINIA DAMTSA OR PAUL PIERONI AT TEL 0207 439 0000 / E INFO@RIFLEMAKER.ORG WWW.RIFLEMAKER.ORG |
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