Charles Mason, Structure and other anxieties 6 May - 6 July 2010 NETTIE HORN |
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NETTIE HORN is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the British artist Charles Mason featuring a new body of works in the form of sculptures and a wall drawing. Inhabited by feelings of recognition, Charles Mason’s work is tinted by physical and psychological implications. |
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| His work recalls a certain feeling of loss. Initially using fragmented and partially broken and repaired objects, Mason has continued to introduce the use of construction materials such as foam, tiles, concrete and other scaffolding elements. Embodying both a formal and architectural spirit, these new components reconsider the intrinsic playful expression of the artist’s work. Notions of equilibrium, weight and matter are essential components in Mason’s minimalist works; where even the two-dimensional works take on a sculptural approach in the way that the objects represented are purely outlined within a space. |  |
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The use of translucent, dark gray Perspex panels offer a unique experience where a sense of disorientation paradoxically contributes to the idea of recognition and where a type of daydream-like experimentation questions the notion of physicality; the viewer becomes part of the work as he travels around it and becomes reflected in the Perspex through which a deformed perception of reality is offered. This sweet paradox is perpetuated through a reassuring feeling and an unnerving grace generated by the supportive and even prosthetic combination of shapes which seem to carry organic and visceral tones within their industrial nature. |
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| Taking the shape of a repeatedly drawn oblong form in perspective, “Wall drawing (camera della morte) 2010” generates an optically shallow space as a wall frieze. The artificiality and disorientation present in Mason’s use of Perspex screens – where the light is reflected and absorbed into an enclosed chamber - is also echoed here in the wall drawing. |  |
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