exhibition

Atlantic 2

Artists Elinor Evans, Glauce Cerveira

25.Nov.04 - 17.Dec.04
Wed-Sun 12-6 or by appt

Private View, 25.Nov.04, Wed-Sun 12-6 or by appt

Contemporary Art Projects
20 Rivington St
London EC2A 3DU
020 7739 1743
info@caprojects.com
www.caprojects.com
Tube Old Street, Liverpool Street, Shoreditch / Hoxton

Atlantic2 showcases two artists raised on opposite shores of the Atlantic.

Welsh-born Elinor Evans studied at Chelsea School of Art and is now at her final year at Royal College of Art. Recently she has been dividing her time between London and Spain, which has added a new dimension to the intriguing quality of her work. Gervase Gordon, wrote about one of her paintings Gelert play dead at recent exhibition, " ...Elinor Evans’ piece has a more overtly classical structure, but she cunningly subverts this with her choice of subjects and her efficient, uncluttered style. At a glance, it’s a snap-shot of nature re-dressing the balance, with the hunter becoming the hunted. However, the fox’s revenge is a joyless and meaningless act, and this sense of futility only serves to amplify the sense of barbarism surrounding the act itself. In doing so, she precisely distils and profoundly undermines the whole argument."

Born in Brazil, Glauce Cerveira always felt she was an observer. Her father was an army officer with the colourful mind of a bohemian; his disregard for authority, rules and conventions often landed the family in extraordinary circumstances. They lived in Rio, the Amazon and Porto Alegre where Glauce went on to study Architecture at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. She grew dissatisfied with the artistic constraints of her Architectural course, abandoned her studies and moved to England. She resumed her education in London at Chelsea School of Art and Central Saint Martins School of Art. "Glauce Cerveira's paintings are products of the perverse combination of a rigorous and precise representational logic and a wilful refusal to make sense. They evidence a delight in contradiction that makes her images difficult to categorise in terms of stylistic or formal antecedents." Marc Hulson.