RICHARD HAWKINS

Inspired in the main by phenomenological approaches to the spirit world and attempts to capture its phantoms in pictures, above all in the spirit photography of the 19^th century and early painterly abstractions, Hawkins with his Celestial Telegraph Paintings develops hybrid pictures somewhere between cult objects and archetypal technology for transmitting and receiving messages from the spirit world.

Under the title Another Language Aaron Curry (b. 1972, lives in Los Angeles) is showing a group of new sculptures. While in his earlier sculptures Aaron Curry employed images from popular culture alongside other found pictures from the most diverse sources, the present works seem to be as far removed as possible from any identifiable reference.

With these sculptures Aaron Curry revisits forms from his earlier works, stylising them in the form of negative counterparts. They are shadowy figures, which become phantoms of themselves through significant reflections of their own formal language.

The installation and confrontation of these new groups of works were developed and realised jointly by Aaron Curry and Richard Hawkins on the occasion of this exhibition.