DAVID ALTMEJD at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, 16 Oct - 15 Nov

Exhibition Description:

Stuart Shave/Modern Art will be presenting new works by Canadian artist David Altmejd, in his second solo show with the gallery. Altmejd, having emerged as the most exciting and talked-about artist at the Venice Biennale in 2007, extends his fascination with myth and the fantastical.

This show features sculptures of the human form fabricated from a fusion of organic with inorganic materials, created using taxidermy and hard reflective surfaces including mirrors.

The fragmentation and expansion effects achieved by Altmejd's elaborate use of reflection will create a seductive and doubling environment, as his fantastical figures inhabit the new Stuart Shave/Modern Art gallery space on Eastcastle Street.

Description:

Image: David Altmejd
The Giant 2, 2007
Foam, wood, glass, mirror, Plexiglas, resin, silicone, taxidermy birds and animals, synthetic plants, paint, pinecones, horse hair, burlap, chains, wire, feathers, quartz, pyrite, other minerals, jewelry, beads, glitter
254 x 427 x 234 cm / 100 x 168 x 92 ins
Photo credit Ellen Page Wilson
Courtesy the artist and Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Copyright David Altmejd, 2008

David Altmejd was born in 1974 in Montreal and lives and works in New York. He has exhibited extensively internationally and participated in the Whitney Biennial in 2004 where his use of werewolf heads and architecturally complex platform-based installations received much international recognition.

Altmejd represented Canada at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) with his largest installation work to date. He will be presenting a major new installation at Tate Liverpool in September as part of the 2008 Liverpool Biennial. His solo presentation at the Gallery Met of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York will run concurrently to this exhibition.

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