Michael Armitage /
Armitage, Michael, 1984-
Michael Armitage / edited and co-ordinated by Honey Luard - 99 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Published on the occasion of Michael Armitage The Chapel South London Gallery, 13 December 2017- 23 February 2018.
Includes bibliographical references.
A world away / by Roger Malbert -- Michael Armitage and Margot Heller in conversation -- Embodied publics / by Mukami Kuria.
This solo exhibition by London-based, Kenyan-born artist, Michael Armitage, brings together a new body of work that draws on the chapel-like qualities of the SLG's main space. His large-scale paintings explore the ambiguous boundaries between religion, folklore and social consensus, particularly in relation to issues of mental health in East Africa. Referencing historical and contemporary news stories, internet gossip, and the artist's own experiences of Kenya, the paintings blend dream-like figuration with compositional references to Titian, Gauguin and other masters of Western art history. Painted on Ugandan lubugo bark cloth, the texture and ruptures within this distinctive material are integrated into Armitage's surreal imagery, the surface beauty of which often belies the disturbing subject matter upon which it is based.
9781910844274 9781898431517
2017473651
Armitage, Michael, 1984- --Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Fine Arts, Bachelor of :--Painting 1 & 2 ;--FA222, FA223
ND 467.5.A76 / .2017 M53
Michael Armitage / edited and co-ordinated by Honey Luard - 99 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Published on the occasion of Michael Armitage The Chapel South London Gallery, 13 December 2017- 23 February 2018.
Includes bibliographical references.
A world away / by Roger Malbert -- Michael Armitage and Margot Heller in conversation -- Embodied publics / by Mukami Kuria.
This solo exhibition by London-based, Kenyan-born artist, Michael Armitage, brings together a new body of work that draws on the chapel-like qualities of the SLG's main space. His large-scale paintings explore the ambiguous boundaries between religion, folklore and social consensus, particularly in relation to issues of mental health in East Africa. Referencing historical and contemporary news stories, internet gossip, and the artist's own experiences of Kenya, the paintings blend dream-like figuration with compositional references to Titian, Gauguin and other masters of Western art history. Painted on Ugandan lubugo bark cloth, the texture and ruptures within this distinctive material are integrated into Armitage's surreal imagery, the surface beauty of which often belies the disturbing subject matter upon which it is based.
9781910844274 9781898431517
2017473651
Armitage, Michael, 1984- --Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Fine Arts, Bachelor of :--Painting 1 & 2 ;--FA222, FA223
ND 467.5.A76 / .2017 M53