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CHRIS KENNY - ONE HUNDRED HOUSES
OPENING Saturday September 6th 11 - 4.30 and runs until October 31st
The Rowley Gallery, Kensington Church Street
The material for ONE HUNDRED HOUSES is provided by strangers’ landscape paintings, bought at markets and online auction sites (at the lowest bid, nobody else wanting them).
Each landscape records a specific but unknown person’s view of the world.
The appropriation of these abandoned pictures is an act of recognition and remembrance, rather than an act of vandalism. What more potent medium could one use to make art than art?
Each painting is cut into a set of walls, façade and elevations, and assembled into a basic little dwelling. It is given a floor, a roof, a door and perhaps a window. The painting's illusion of three-dimensional space is replaced by actual volume.
Each house thereby transforms a landscape into a memorial object, an intimate relic, an inside-out structure reflecting a distinct individual’s outlook.
The houses come together as a town, a taxonomic collection or a chorus of many voices, beautiful and provocative.
Each house is for sale individually.
The Rowley Gallery
115 Kensington Church Street
London W8 7LN
Tel: 020 7727 6495
www.rowleygallery.co.uk
Tuesday to Friday 10 – 6 Saturday 11 - 4.30
100 HOUSES will be on show at the Rowley Gallery in Kensington Church Street for the month of September.
Each house is constructed from a stranger’s landscape painting.
The houses are available individually.
The June issue of DOMUS contains an article about the twigs.
CAPELLA is included in ‘Les quatre éléments dans l’art’
at the Musée de la fleur d’Ollioules in Provence
and features on the poster for the exhibition.
Untitled (Fuck Off) is included in the Paper Show
at Green & Stone Gallery, Fulham Road until February 15th
It is also available as a limited edition fine art print.
Menologion: 365 Saints, a video work comprising a year’s worth of twig saints
is on view at the Tweetakt Festival, Utrecht
UTOPIA is included in KAOS the International Festival of Collage in Kranj, Slovenia
running from May 31 to August 10
Two map works are included in the newly published Mappa Grafica, a fête champêtre of cartographic pleasures.
There are more stars than anyone could ever need (66 Facts)
a 60x60cm fine art print in an edition of 50 is now available
Khanate is featured in Green & Stone Gallery’s ‘Paper’ show.
90 Facts is included in the Green & Stone Summer Exhibition in Fulham Road, London until 29th August
Untitled (Fuck Off)
a 60x60cm fine art print in an edition of 50 is now available
Hermitage is included in 70 TREES
at the Rowley Gallery, Kensington Church Street.
Two map works (including ‘Reservoir’ above) and two text works have been selected for MATISSE AND CONTEMPORARY PAPER ART at The Rheged Gallery, Cumbria running throughout the summer.
Arts Cabinet have published their “Migration’ issue. The online version includes the video-poem they commissioned “in the middle of nowhere”.
https://www.artscabinet.org/repository/in-the-middle-of-nowhere
‘Just Like Trees’ the film made in support of America’s forests and starring selected twig figures has won three medals at the International Muse Creative Awards.
'The Road' 2013 has been acquired by the Département du Var for the Museum at Toulon.
A community of twig saints are starring in a film
to support the protection of America’s forests:
Twelve Twigs has arrived in Belgium at the Arboretum Kalmthout,
an appropriate new home.