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| Event: | Stuart Pearson Wright - I Remember You - A Riflemaker Exhibition |
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Riflemaker, 79 Beak Street, W1F 9SU, London |
| Date: | Wednesday 5th May 2010 |
| Time: | 6PM- 9PM |
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STUART PEARSON WRIGHT
Private view at Riflemaker Gallery - Wednesday 5th of May at 6PM- 9PM
Exhibition: Wednesday 5 May - Saturday 26 June 2010
"I have a face, but a face is not what I am" Julian Bell, 'Five Hundred Portraits' (Phaidon) 2001.
The work of Stuart Pearson Wright reflects a search for lost identity. Wright’s new series of paintings at Riflemaker - shown alongside a film installation featuring Keira Knightley - explore and dispel the stereotypes of masculinity and femininity as depicted in films, books and comics; specifically in the stories and myths of the American West.
Painting the human figure in an era when it was not always seen as a legitimate part of contemporary art, and a winner the BP Portrait Award aged just 26, Wright has spent much of his career attempting to subvert traditional portrait painting. He and his subjects, employing his own features and those of his fiancée in meticulously painted and stylised characters set in pulpy, fictional situations.
The artist's work features in numerous public collections including the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum.
The film installation, Maze, running concurrently with I Remember You, casts the artist as an Elizabethan courtier trying to reach his lover, played by the actress Keira Knightley. |
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