JAMES IVESON : Campaign

10 Feb-24 Mar 2012

Overview

In James Iveson's striking new series of paintings, the artist's first solo show at Bischoff/Weiss, the colours, textures and shapes hover, tangled between abstraction and representation. A palette of rich peacock blues, petrol greens and shadowy greys along with smears of brighter aqua and acid green, burgundy and fluorescent yellow runs through the series, inspired by motifs from a recent Gucci campaign. Iveson's paintings reframe and focus in on the detail of the campaign; not simply describing these elements, he is utilising them as established anatomies (the cut of a jacket, the print of a fabric, the back of the model) and re-making them as painting, for study as painting, re-making as direct presence.