Taste Contemporary is delighted to announce its relocation to a new gallery space at Rue du Vieux-Billard 7, Geneva. Located in the heart of the cities gallery district, the move now enables the gallery to expand its programming and present larger and more ambitious exhibitions. This new space also includes a private viewing room, enabling clients to view specially curated selections of work.
“I’m excited to embark on this new journey with Taste Contemporary,” says Gallery Director, Monique Deul. “Our move to Rue du Vieux-Billard 7 represents a new beginning for us. While continuing to showcase material-led artists, this space now allows us explore new creative collaborations as well as major solo shows by key gallery artists. Having reached our ten year milestone, the time was right to bring the gallery to the next level. I look forward to seeing what the next chapter will bring.”
Established in 2014, Taste Contemporary presents contemporary and 20th century work by a select group of dynamic and compelling artists who demonstrate material expression of form in materials that include ceramics, textile, glass, wood and paper. In addition, Taste Contemporary presents painting, drawing and photography by contemporary artists who are committed to material-led processes within their practice. The gallery’s relocation allows greater opportunities to exhibit the work of these artists alongside object-based works by existing gallery artists.
Taste Contemporary opens at Rue du Vieux-Billard 7 with two exhibitions.
Off Kilter is a two-person show that presents the figurative work of two artists whose depictions of life’s experiences are outside the norm, the usual and the expected. Ceramic artist Martin Neubert directs his attention primarily to the outsiders, those on the fringes of society. Through textiles, Fern Liberty Kallenbach Campbell manifests her psyche and satirical view of her surroundings, simultaneously exploring the correlation between these two realms.
Martin Neubert depicts the human figure in a sensitive, nuanced manner, guided by respect and esteem. He directs his attention primarily to the outsiders, to the losers or the ‘clowns’ on the fringes of society. He creates expressive images of them that can evoke happiness but also sadness, awaken empathy but also disturb. His figures evoke a broad spectrum of ambivalent feelings in the viewer.
In a naive style – a childlike mix of pop and outsider art – Fern Liberty Kallenbach Campbell processes her life experiences and personal anecdotes in the form of tapestry. Resembling a painting, but textured soft like a carpet, her work is a homogeneous mix of fine art and handicraft.
Disparate Measures is a solo exhibition of work by British artist Philip Eglin. The show features new buckets and a group of oversized jug forms, dramatically and expressively painted with vibrant coloured slips. Also included are new sculptural Madonnas (part of an ongoing series whose surfaces are layered with images, words and symbols), wall pieces, and Lucas Cranach inspired nude figures.
Philip Eglin’s expressive ceramic work reflects and comments on contemporary culture. His work is laden with eclectic cultural references: from religion to football, from medieval woodcarving to the symbols used in contemporary packaging; from Chinese porcelain to English folk ceramics. His ceramics tell a story, each one has the power to provoke emotion and to challenge.
Philip Eglin’s post-modern aesthetic draws on many sources from popular culture and ceramic history through to high art, and from Gothic Madonnas to Abstract Expressionist painters of the 1950s. Frequent use of graffiti elements carry playful references to street culture and his sculptures often incorporate pieces moulded from everyday objects.
Both Off Kilter and Disparate Measures run until November 2, 2024.
Contact
info@tastecontemporary.com
Taste Contemporary
Rue du Vieux-Billard 7
1205 Genève
Switzerland
Photos courtesy of the gallery
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