Back to the world

Continua presso la Blindarte la mostra Back to the World, personale di Simon Keenleyside. La mostra sarà aperta fino al 10 Gennaio 2014 tutti i giorni feriali dalle 10 alle 13.30 e dalle 15.30 alle 19.

Nato nell'Essex in Inghilterra nel 1975, Simon Keenleyside nel corso degli anni è diventato noto per uno stile di pittura che trae ispirazione ugualmente dalla tradizione della pittura paesaggistica inglese e dall'astrazione moderna. Diplomato al Royal College of Art di Londra, Keenleyside è stato celebrato per la sua magistrale capacità di manipolare la prospettiva e la profondità di campo con una maniera personale e sempre riconoscibile. Le fonti d'ispirazione dell'artista sono i paesaggi del suo ambiente familiare nell'Essex, comprese le rive del Tamigi e dei boschi che era solito frequentare da bambino, due siti che hanno indotto l'artista ad interrogarsi sulla comprensione ontologica del luogo. Sebbene i riferimenti ai paesaggi rimangano prevalenti nel lavoro, recentemente l'artista britannico si è allontanato dalla raffigurazione dello spazio fisico e posta una maggiore enfasi sull'evocazione degli stati mentali, dei desideri e delle ansie che lo accompagnano durante i suoi viaggi nella regione. Il suo intento di sperimentare con il formalismo e i materiali gli permette di trasmettere allo spettatore la sua esperienza visiva ed emozionale, ritraendo il paesaggio circostante non nella sua forma naturale ma nella sua visione policromaticamente onirica. Dunque Keenleyside ha studiato ancora più nel dettaglio le possibilità della pittura, scoprendo nuovi particolari di luoghi a lui già conosciuti e creando riverberi di memoria che suggeriscono l'impossibilità del loro pieno recupero, così come le limitazioni della pittura stessa.

Il titolo della mostra "Ritorno al Mondo" è un riferimento ad Agnes Martin, alla sua lunga ricerca durante gli anni di isolamento in New Mexico ed alle opere pittoriche astratte di quel periodo, ispirate dall'assoluta calma e tranquillità, "come se fossero state prodotte senza alcun riferimento al nostro mondo". Sul significato della pittura indaga anche Keenleyside, ma lo fa con un uso diretto del paesaggio che lo circonda, concentrandosi a pieno su quello che è effettivamente il soggetto rappresentato nel dipinto, il reale protagonista dell'opera.

L'artista ha esposto in numerose mostre nel Regno Unito, in Danimarca, in America ed in Italia. Nel 2002 ha vinto il BOC Emerging Artist Award e nel 2004 il Lexmark European Art Prize. Le sue opere sono presenti in importanti collezioni come la Boc group, Comme de Garcons, Hiscox plc, Mario Testino, Amlyn Collection, Marsh McLennan, RCA Collection, TI Group.

Curriculum
Biography

Lives and works in Rayleigh, Essex. Uk.

Education

2000- 2002 MA, Painting. Royal College of Art, London.
1997-2000 BA (Hons) First Class. Fine Art Painting.
Brighton University, Sussex.
1994-1995 Foundation Studies (Art / Design) - Southend College of Arts & Technology

Solo Exhibitions

2015 Wall works. Suffolk, uk
2013/14 Back to the World Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples
2010 Rokeby, London.
Blindarte Contemporanea. Naples, Italy.
2008 Rokeby, London
2007 Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples
2006 Endless Coloured Days, Mogadishni, Copenhagen
Rokeby, London.
MiArt 2006, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan. Italy
2005 Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milan. Italy.
Scope Miami. Mogadishni. USA
2004 Rainbows In Dark Places, Mogadishni, Copenhagen
2003 Digging and Daydreams, Standpoint Gallery, London
2002 The Parched Field, Emerging Artist Award, BOC Headquarters, Surrey.

Group Exhibitions

2018 Summertime 2018. Galleri Christoffer Egelund. Copenhagen.
2017 Natura Plastica. Blindarte, Milan Italy.
2016 New works. Group show- part of Brighton Arts Festival. Brighton.Uk
Saltmarsh. Maeldune Heritage Centre, Maldon, Essex.
With DavidBritton, Heidi Jukes and Rachel Spender
2015 Mario Bertolini Collection. The Museo del Novecento. Milan, Italy.
2013 Collective mural. St Nicolas school. London (residence)
2012 Copenhagen Art. Woodcuts. Kant Gallery. Copenhagen Blindarte. Naples. Everything Everyday -Group show with Alexis M Teplin, Ross Chisholm, Noah Sherwood, Greg Rook, Will Turner, Sigrid Holmwood, Susan Collis. curated by Simon Keenleyside. Inshore-fishing, group show. Rokeby Gallery. London. With Peter Lanyon, Vincent Hawkins, Abigail Reynolds, Bradley Grievson.
2011 Pulsed. ASC Gallery, London. With Ross Chisholm, Paul Housley, Jess MacNeil, Michael Samuels and Mathew Sawyer. Curated by Ross Chisholm and Simon Keenleyside.
Hong Kong Art Fair. Two person show with Michael Samuels. Rokeby Gallery.
2009 New Works. Two person show with JJ Garfinkel (US). Mogadishni, Copenhagen.
Roma Art Fair. Blindarte. Rome, Italy.
Glad to invite you. Curated by Gian Paolo Striano. Mostra d’Oltremare. Naples. Italy.
2008 Art Rotterdam. Rokeby Gallery. Netherlands. Art Copenhagen. Mogadishni. Copenhagen.
2007 Art Dubai. Galleria Tega. United Arab Emirates, Dubai.
Zoo art fair, London. Rokeby Gallery & Mogadishni.
Art Forum, Berlin, Mogadishni Gallery. Berlin , Germany.
‘Bomberg Relevance’, Curated by Sarah Lightman. (with Michael Ajerman, Sarah Lightman, Gideon Rubin, among others). The Ben Uri London Jewish Museum of Art,
Is it a Pazziella? Curated by Memmo Grill. (with Simon Boudvin, Davide Cantoni, berend Strik, among others). Blindarte contemporanea, Capri. Italy.
Bologna Art Fair. Studio D’Art Cannaviello. Bolagna, Italy.2006 Girl Power and Boyhood, Curators- Pat Fisher & Lene Burkard (with Louise Bourgeois (F/US), Kiki Smith (US) Herman Bas (US), Christopher Orr (uk).,among others). Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and Kunsthallen, Brandt, Denmark and Stavanger Kulturhus, Norway
GO FIGURE. (With Andreas Schulenburg, Trine Boesen, James Frankin, Rasmus Bjorn, among others). Mogadishni, Aarhus.
Stilelibero 2. Studio D’Arte Cannaviello. (with Jonathan Meese, Norbert Bisky, Chantal Joffe, Sophie Von Hellermann among others). Milan. Italy.
PULSE Miami, USA Mogadishni. Copenhagen.
Broken Romanticism, Curated by Stephen Walter. (With Carline List, Peter Lamb, Robin Mason, Daniel Gustav Cramer, among others). Standpoint Gallery, London
The Leisure Club, Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples. Italy
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
2005 I woke up in a strange place...Curated by Daria Brit Shapiro and Tairone Bastien. (With Willian Cordova, Jeremay Earhart, Craig Fisher, Dan Rushton, Frances Trombly, among others).
Moti Hasson Gallery, New York. USA
NADA, Miami, MOGADISHNI, Miami. USA
PAINTINGS, (with Robert Platt, Jon wisdman. Cristof Yvore).
Taka Ishii Gallery. Tokyo.
ARTfutures. Contemporary Art society’s selected show of
Furture and established artists. Curated by Jeni Walwin, Nour Wali. 2005, Bloomberg Space, London
Real Strange, (with Keith Coventry, Kiera Bennett, Paul Housley, Roger Kelly, Lee Maelzer, Gavin Maughfing, Jost Munstre, Sarah Sparks, DJ Roberts). Lounge Gallery, London
New London Kicks. Curated by Simon Rumley. (with Gordon Cheung, Reece Jones, Alex Gene Morrison, Gavin Nolan).
Wooster Projects, New York. USA
2005 BLOC, Curated by Beth Greenarce for David Bowie’s Bowieart.
show of 16 emerging artists. County Hall Gallery, London.
The Armory Show. MOGADISHNI & New London Kicks.,. New York. USA
If You Go Down To The Woods Today… Curated be Robin
Mason and Rockwell. With Sam Dargan, Barnaby Hosking,
Andrew Grassie, Christian Ward, among others. Rockwell, London
RCA Secret. Royal College of Art, London
Naturally! Curated by Julie Damgaard & Helle Ryberg with Axel Antas, Lise Blomberg Andersen, Dalziel & Scullion, Michael Samuels, Fie Norsker among others. Mogadishni, Copenhagen.
2004 Kettle’s Yard Open, Selected by Artists Mark Lewis and Claire Barclay. Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Forvever Beautiful. (With Chris Ofili, Claire Pestaille, Penny Neville-Lee, Emma Bennett, among others). Clapham Art Gallery. London.
Sixteen. Curated by Simon Keenleyside. With Ross Chishlom, Simon Monk, Sam Dargan, among others. Royal Bromton Hospital. London.
The Forest, Rockwell, Artist run space London.
Lexmark European Final, Triennale di Milano, Milan Playing Dead, with Balint Bolygo & Brain Sayers. Long & Ryle, London
The Cardboard Factory, with Nathalie Djurberg, Erica Eyres,
Juile Nord, Tor-Magnus Lundery among others.
MOGADISHNI, Copenhagen
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Art Chicago 2004, Long & Ryle Gallery. Chicago, USA
2003 The Drawing Room, The Union, London
The Rude Show, with Brain Dawn Chalkley, J.A. Nicholls, Hee Jin Kang, Divyesh Bhanderi, Annie Attridge, Rob Grose. New Inn Gallery, London
The Hunting Art Prizes 2003, RCA, London
2002 The Commodity Show, The Loading Bay, Old Truman Brewery, London
Come Again, Two person show with J.A. Nicholls Hockney Gallery, RCA, London .
2001 Interim Show, RCA, London.
Photosynthesis, Two person show with Sigrid Holmwood. Vertigo Gallery, London.
One Day All This Will Be Yours, Howie Street, RCA, London.
Group Show, Vertigo Gallery, London.
One Week Wonders, Vertigo Gallery, London.
2000 Painting 2000, RCA, London.
MM Painting Show, Brighton University, Brighton.

Awards

2004 Lexmark European Art Prize, UK Winner. Selected by Professor Brendan Neiland, Meredith Etherington-Smith, and artist Christian Ward.
2002 BOC Emerging Artist Award. Selected by Sir Peter Blake RA, art critic Matthew Collings, Andrew Hutchinson and Steve Dempsey (BOC).
2000-2002 TI Dowty Scholarship Award at the RCA

Selected Press/Publications

2015/6 Solar; paintings from Hopper to the new generations. Publisher Mimesis of Milan-Udine, in the series: Discourse - Figure directed by Elio Franzini.
2008 Artreview.com. review by Sara Mullay.
2006 BBC – Collective. Review by Francesca Gavin.
Segno – Internazionali D’Arte Contemporanea, 2006. Review by Mariacristina Ferraioli.
Flash Art, Europe. N0. 256 Feb 2006. Review by Chiara Canali.
Article in Exibart.com – 11.01.2002. By Luca Vona.
“Kunst” nr. 6 2006, “Drengerøve og skrappe tøser”, Ole Lindboe. Denmark
Weekendavisen nr. 44 - November 3. 2006, “Pubertet og pangfarver”, by Ole Nørlyng. Denmark
Kunstavisen 6/2 2006 (review on the exhibition NATURALLY!, MOGADISHNI. Denmark
I woke up in a strange place… -New York Times
Cathryn Drake – The Leisure Club – ArtForum.2005 Poster for Transport for London. (Would you love me through the winter?). London Transport Museum.
Michael Glover – Simon Keenleyside – The Financial Times
Jessica Lack – Simon Keenleyside – The Guardian Guide
Simon Keenleyside, exhibition catalogue, Rokeby, London
Simon Keenleyside, exhibition catalogue, Studio d’Arte Cannaviello,
2004 Poster for Comme des Garcon, New York, Paris, London.
Merry Lovers – Christmas campaign. (Painting - At the Edge of The Woods.)
Pam Horne - The View From Here – The National Trust, Issue 103
Lexmark European Art Prize, catalogue
2003 Martin Coomer - Digging and Daydreams - Time Out
Morgan Falconer - Colour Field - What’s On in London
Fisun Güner - Landscape of Colour - Metro
Jessica Lack – Paperwork - The Guardian Guide
Dominic Lutyens - Private Collection - The Observer
Tower Place for Marsh & McLennan, catalogue
2002 Morgan Falconer - Grasping at Glory - RA Magazine, No 76
Guide to Emerging Artists - Artist Newsletter
2001 Sotheby’s TI Group, catalogue
2000 MM Painting Show, Brighton University, catalogue

Selected Collections

The Museo del Novecento Collection, Milan, Italy.
Mario Bertolini Collection, Milan, Italy.
Haldor Topsoe. Houston, Texas.
Amlyn Collection, London.
Hiscox plc, London.
JensPeter Brask, Denmark.
Stalke Galleri Collection. Denmark.
Anette Reiter & Peter Skovborg, Denmark.
BOC Collection. Surry.
TI Group, London.
Comme des Garcon, New York.
David Roberts Foundation, London.
Edvin Blomqvist, Denmark.
Kirsten/Stefan Mordorst, Denmark.
Galerie Wolfsen, Aulberg, Denmark.
Sleth Modernism Architects. Arhus, Denmark.
Mario Testino, London.
Marsh McLennan, London.
RCA. Painting Collection, London.
Massimo Recine, Milan, Italy.
Manfred Schierjott, Germany.
Memmo Grilli. Naples, Italy.
Heather Hill Capital Holding. Denmark.