COMMA
A dynamic new series of monthly commissions
COMMA 19 and COMMA 20
Damien Deroubaix and Marc Camille Chaimowicz
4 – 20 March 2010
Bloomberg SPACE
50 Finsbury Square
London EC2A 1HD
Berlin-based French artist Damien Deroubaix works across a diverse range of media from painting and watercolour on paper to sculpture and installation. He has developed, over the years, a complex and unique imagery that reveals the influence of major figures in the history of painting such as Jerome Bosch, Brueghel, Holbein, Max Beckman, Francis Bacon and David Hockney, with whom he shares a fascination for myths and symbolism in the field of representation. Deroubaix’s prolific work seamlessly combines medieval imagery alongside pictures and slogans taken from advertising and political propaganda, thereby echoing the use of images in contemporary counter-cultures such as Grindcore music.
In his new commission for COMMA, Deroubaix has experimented with wood block, a technique normally reserved for printmaking. Sculpting by gouging out the surface layer of the wood, his images are made visible through the application of a layer of black ink. For this new work Deroubaix has drawn his inspiration from the biblical story of the Temptation of St Anthony, relating this ancient tale to the pursuit of money and power in our contemporary world. Accompanying this major new undertaking is a large sculpture elevated in the centre of the front gallery. The sculpture is a tree on which sinister heads and bats have seemingly either grown, or been hung or fallen onto the ground.
COMMA 20 Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Internationally acclaimed artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s work has remained consistent for almost three decades in relation to performance, place, and decoration. Using a quiet poetic sense, a delicate wafting regard to wallpaper, carpet, object and furniture, Chaimowicz has always placed the spirit of performance within the spaces in which he works.
When invited to respond and create a new commission for the rear gallery at Bloomberg SPACE, Chaimowicz, a creator of furnished fictional contexts, was immediately inspired by the potential of contrasting the modern office atrium with his own particular approach to decorative installation. He has suspended within the atrium a series of carpets, crafted in France to his own design, to create a series of moving ‘magic’ carpets.
About Bloomberg SPACE
Bloomberg SPACE is a gallery based at Bloomberg’s European headquarters in London and is dedicated to commissioning and exhibiting contemporary art. It welcomes visitors six days a week and admission is free.
COMMA continues with commissions including:
8 April – 15 May 2010
COMMA 21 Martin Honert
Bloomberg SPACE, 50 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1HD
Open: Monday to Saturday 11am – 6pm
Admission Free
Nearest stations: Moorgate & Liverpool Street
W www.bloombergspace.com
E gallery@bloomberg.net
T + 44 20 7330 7959
