Exhibitions

25 Feb - 07 Apr 2012

TORCH gallery

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On Saturday the 25^th of February, between 5-7pm, TORCH gallery proudly opens The Shapeshifter, an exhibition by Anya Janssen. In collaboration with a composer, a writer and a video-maker she creates a synergistic Gesamtkunstwerk inspired by Ivy; a twelve year old girl that lives partly detached from civilization together with her mother. In a small red mobile home she coexists with her animals and nature on the fringe of Dutch urbanity. The stories this girl told Janssen inspired her to create an installation piece focusing on Ivy's way of shifting personalities between civilization and her own private universe. A new catalogue for the project will be available at the gallery. After the opening the works will be exhibited until the 7^th of April

07 Jan - 18 Feb 2012

TORCH gallery

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On Saturday the 7th of January TORCH gallery Amsterdam will proudly start the new year with Gardenesque, a solo exhibition by Dutch/Australian artist Gary Carsley. After the festive opening his works will be exhibited until the 18th of February. Facebook RSVP

Carsley creates immersive installation pieces that play on feelings of comfort and security within man-made natural settings such as parks and gardens. The pieces that will be exhibited at TORCH are inspired by the 18th century Dutch tradition of the 'behangselschilderij': fully painted sections of wallpaper that offered inhabitants views into Arcadian fantasy gardens or impressions of famous idyllic vistas. Besides this starting point the works also function as an re-appropriation of Gilbert and George's The Tuileries (1974). For this piece the famous Living Sculptures decorated a Amsterdam gallery space with charcoal drawings of an English garden and furnished it as a living room. Carsley transports this piece into the 21st century by creating a fully printed living space based on a modern version of the classical Chinese garden. To accompany this exhibition a special audio tour was made using QR-codes.