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Amy Bennett | Sore Spots

Archive exhibition
10 November - 18 December 2011
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Amy Bennett | Sore Spots

Galleri Magnus Karlsson is pleased to present Amy Bennett’s third solo exhibition in the gallery. The exhibition presents paintings, monotypes and sculpture.

 

For the exhibition Sore Spots Amy Bennett has created several different fictional settings including such public places as a church, a doctor's office, and a theater. As a starting point Amy builds detailed 3D miniature models to serve as still lifes for each painting. Many of the narratives stem from these communal locations that invite introspection and risk the personal spilling into public view. A doctor’s office, for instance, often prompts people to consider their own mortality, perhaps while in a stuffy, crowded waiting room or sitting half naked in a cold, sterile little room. Such situations can be both comical and absurd. The tension between privacy and openness, appropriateness and honesty ties many of the paintings together.

 

“Working with models helps me to develop narratives and compositions by offering me complete creative control over an imaginary, but believable world. Developing a scene in 3D helps me to process and extract bits of my experience, whether it is first or second hand, in order to make what is intuitive and dream-like something more concrete and real — something I can observe real light affecting. I feel very emotionally connected to a scene and its characters by the time I begin painting. I try to allow the slight awkwardness of the model world to translate into the paintings to simulate the inadequacies of the memories, dreams and imagination that inspired the images in the first place”.

 

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Galleri Magnus Karlsson har glädjen att presentera Amy Bennetts tredje separatutställning på galleriet. I utställningen presenteras målningar, monotypier och skulptur.

 

I Sore Spots har Amy Bennett arbetat med ett antal offentliga miljöer, bl.a. en kyrka, en läkarmottagning och en teater. Hon har byggt detaljerade tredimensionella miniatyrmodeller som sedan använts som förlagor till målningar och monotypier. Bildernas innehåll och berättelser är inspirerade av hur dessa platser ger upphov till eftertanke och hur det privata och personliga där riskerar att läcka ut i det offentliga. Att befinna sig på en läkarmottagning t.ex. kan ge upphov till existentiella privata funderingar om livet och döden – antingen i ett fullsatt väntrum eller sittande ensam och halvnaken i ett kallt sterilt undersökningsrum. Samtidigt kan situationen där vara komisk och absurd. Laddningen mellan integritet och öppenhet, lämplighet och uppriktighet binder samman verken i utställningen. 

 

“Att arbeta med modeller hjälper mig att utveckla en berättelse och komposition. Det ger mig kreativ kontroll över min påhittade men trovärdiga värld. Att bygga en tredimensionell miljö hjälper mig gestalta egna (eller andras) erfarenheter på ett konkret plan. Jag blir under arbetets gång än mer känslomässigt engagerad i platsen och dess invånare vilket motiverar mig ytterligare när jag ska börja måla. Jag använder modellens overklighet till att förmedla de brister i minnen, drömmar och fantasier som från början inspirerade mig.”

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