Friday, November 13, 2009

Giles Ryder, Vectorize, Raum Weiss, Berlin, Germany, October 30 - November 27, 2009

Giles Ryder is an Australian artist who lived in Berlin from 2008 to 2009 as an Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts scholar. While living in Berlin he had exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Non Objective Art (Brussels, Belgium), Le Petit Port (Ledien, Netherlands), and now Raum Weiss in Berlin. He also curated the show Zombie Kunsthalle.

Nice mages of work from this show and biography can be found at the gallery's site here.



The following text is courtesy of Raum Weiss

Australian artist GILES RYDER is interested in factory made material taken out of our daily life. Detached from their function, they reveal unique messages that we normally do not experience through the perspective of these functions. When these materials are separated from the perception of their function and use in our society, we experience them on a completely new level.

A very important aspect of our perception changes through the processing of these materials by the artist which is no longer machine made/industrial but manual/individual. New qualities come to light, values shift, attributes such as “high” or “low” quality are adjusted by this change. Furthermore, the materials become part of a new dialog with their environment as they are exposed in their true nature. The same applies to colours; GILES RYDER aggravates their original impact by certain compositions. He also manipulates them, for instance, by working with high grade car paint or paint with glitter particles to imply quality in prefabricated aluminium parts. He plays with predetermined, factory made forms and makes some edges seem harder and some lines softer. This play with form is extended through play with light and space which creates a further level of perception. Hard lines are put in contrast with soft reflections on the surface and soft light on a non-material level. The “Cantilever” installation shows this contrast in the hard lines of coloured florescent tubes as opposed to the soft play of colours on a canvas work integrated in the installation, as well as the soft glow created by the tubes themselves.

GILES RYDER’s works need light, space and spectators to unfold. His art is in movement, in a flow, in permanent change and only comes alive through this change. Very simple experiences of perception become a fundamental, complex and very personal adventure.

In 2008, Giles Ryder was the recipient of the prestigious Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship which enabled him to study in Berlin at KH-B. He has exhibited extensively, internationally and nationally including New06 (curated by Juliana Engberg) at ACCA (Australian Centre of Contemporary Art). Recipient of the 2006 RIPE emerging artist award (ANZ and Art in Australia contemporary art award). Finalist 2006 & 2007, in the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney, recently the 2009 Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Art Award.

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