Il mio lavoro ha sviluppato ultimamente un rapporto più diretto con la topologia della pittura o con l’analisi dello spazio. Dipingendo su plastica Twinwall e Triplewall, così come su tela e carta, ho evidenziato i miei desideri e le mie ispirazioni, individuando tutta una serie di domande e possibilità. Si tratta di ispirazioni fisiche (oggetti, luoghi, persone, ecc.), nonché concettuali (musica, poesia ecc.), i quali incarnano, mediante la pittura e gli elementi a collage disposti sulle superfici, tutto ciò che io sono fisicamente, mentalmente, politicamente, storicamente ed economicamente. Le opere esposte possiedono nella loro composizione più di una qualità dissonante, accentuata da tratti che denotano un’associazione più netta con forze quali movimento, velocità e accelerazione, e sono al tempo stesso in contrasto con le strutture semi-architettoniche che circumnavigano, smontandole e ricostruendole sullo stesso piano. Le combinazioni frammentarie che pervadono tutta l’opera danno adito a un piacere psicologico che attira e respinge un osservatore attraverso la superficie, permettendo di trasgredire impulsi simili a quelli che George Bataille descrisse, commentando le fondamenta dell’arte e la pura e semplice impossibilità della nostra esistenza nel mondo. Desidero che i miei dipinti appaiano attraverso le brume dell’attività e del tempo, con un potenziale di gioia e disperazione per ogni secondo che passa. Danny Rolph, 20 luglio 2009 - Londra

In collaborazione con:

AR / Contemporary Art –Via Marco Polo 11, 20124 Milano. t. +39 02 4549 8902

ar@contemporarygallery.it – www.contemporarygalelry.it

ARTIST: DANNY ROLPH

TITLE: “ 23 rd DIMENSION ” curator Danny Rolph

PLACE: Vittoria Design Gallery

Promenade du Port, via Porto Vecchio 1. Porto Cervo, 07021 ( OT ). t + 39 0789 970017

Vernissage: July 26 th 2009

From July 27 th – August 30 th 2009

My recent work has taken on a more direct relationship with Painting's topology or discourse with space.
Through the act of painting on to Twinwall and Triplewall plastic, as well as canvas and paper, I bring my desires and inspirations into view, locating a range of questions and possibilities. These inspirations are both physical (objects, places, people etc.) as well as conceptual flights (music, poetry etc.) and embody, through the paint and collaged elements I put on the surfaces, everything that I am physically, mentally, politically, historically and economically. My paintings being exhibited here possess in their compositions more of a dissonant quality accentuated through marks that have a clearer association with forces such as motion, velocity and acceleration and are at odds with the quasi-architectonic structures that they circumnavigate, disassembling and reconstructing them on the same plane. Fragmentary combinations that appear all over the work build a psychological pleasure that pushes and pulls a viewer across the surface allowing transgressive impulses, similar to what George Bataille wrote about when commenting on Art's foundations and the sheer impossibility of our existence in the world. I desire that my paintings appear through the mists of activity and time containing the potential for joy and despair between each passing second. . Danny Rolph, July 20 th 2009 - London

In collaboration with:

AR / Contemporary Art –Via Marco Polo 11, 20124 Milano. t. + 39 02 4549 8902

ar@contemporarygallery.it – www.contemporarygalelry.it
D A N N Y R O L P H

Born London 1967

E d u c a t i o n

1991 – 93 Royal College of Art, MA Painting

1988 – 91 Winchester School of Art, BA (Honours) Fine Art

S e l e c t e d A w a r d s

2007 Hamlyn Award (nominated)

2001 London Arts: Visual Arts Award

1998. Abbey Scholar, British School at Rome, Italy

1994 – 96 Delfina Trust Award

1992 John Minton Travel Award

R e c e n t S o l o E x h i b i t i o n s

2009 ‘Accelerator’, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA

2008 ‘Jackson’, AR/ Contemporary , Milan, Italy

2007 ‘Happenstance’, AR/ Contemporary , Milan , Italy

‘Singularity’, Barbara Davis Gallery , Houston, USA

2006 ‘There is no such thing as pure’, Hales Gallery, London

‘Hinterland’, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA

2005 ‘Obstraction’, AR/ Contemporary , Milan , Italy

R e c e n t G r o u p E x h i b i t i o n s

2009 ‘Summer Show 09’, Royal Academy (invited artist), London

‘CAOS vs ORDINE’, AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy

‘Reconstructing the old house’, The Nunnery, London

‘You are more beautiful than a butterfly’, Turpentine Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland*

‘PAPERVIEW’, John Jones Project Space, London *

2008 ‘Freshly Baked’, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA

‘Park Avenue’, Southampton City Art Gallery, Hampshire

‘Pure Optic Ray’, FRED Gallery, Leipzig, Germany

‘Superstratum’, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

‘Paper Show’, AR/ Contemporary, Milan, Italy

‘Hypersurface’, OVADA, Oxford

‘Through The Star Gate’, AR/ Contemporary, Milan, Italy *

‘Tipping Point’, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

‘Arts Futures 08’, Contemporary Arts Society, Bloomberg Space, London

2007 A Carry on in The House of the Atomic Comic’, Carter / Gallagher Gallery, London

‘Arts Futures 07’, Contemporary Arts Society, Bloomberg Space, London

2006 ‘When forms become attitude’, AR/ Contemporary, Milan, Italy *

‘Cold Climate’, Living Arts Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

‘Davies, Malinowski, Rolph, Wallinger’, BSR Gallery, Rome, Italy

C o l l e c t i o n s

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Tate Gallery, London

British Consulate, Rome, Italy

Coopers & Lybrand, London

Simmons & Simmons, London

Jerry Speyer, New York, USA

British Airways

Goldman Sachs

Khodr Collection, Beirut

Time Warner

Pearson

Unilever

Dresdner Bank

Thompson Knight, Dallas, USA