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Jack Duplock, Guitar, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 2014, 75 x 120 cm
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Jack Duplock, Iggy Sleeping, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 2014 , 75 x 120 cm
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Jack Duplock,Cave, Installation View, the Agency July 2014
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Jack Duplock,Installation View, the Agency July 2014
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Rob Smith, Screen Materials, Installation View, the Agency July 2014
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Rob Smith, Screen Materials, Installation View, the Agency July 2014
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Rob Smith, Screen Materials, Installation View, the Agency July 2014
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Jack Duplock, 'A Horse With No Name!, Gallery 1
Rob Smith, ' Screen Materials'Gallery 2
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the Agency is pleased to present new paintings by Jack Duplock in Gallery 1. In Gallery 2 Rob Smith will present processes of recent digital works.
The latest body of paintings by Jack Duplock delves further into his enduring narrative thread of a shamanistic pastorale derived from rural British subcultures. Presented in the style of icons in votive painting often with simple handmade gold leaf frames the works make knowing reference to folk art. The latest works reveal a progression to a bold unique style with pastel
hues.
Duplock’s style is drawing based but with a white wash layer the mark is subordinated in the almost minimal hues of the geometric background which carries Duplock’s signature icons of bird/deer, bird/man, shaman/horse. Subliminally reminiscent of contemporary subcultural rites his works distill this to a new language of a faintly sexualised imagination. The paintings remind of the endurance and in some cases revival of an English folk culture away from the urban centres which exists in the festival circuit and the contemporary versions of the town fayre.
Duplock’s most recent pieces appear to connect to the painterly language of early modernism, a nod to Klee, but also to the first appropriation of the modernist language in Seventies’ graphics and textiles. His subversive mysticism also finds expression in his ready--made objects, carved and painted onto skateboards and surfboards.
Jack Duplock has shown widely internationally. In Winter 2014/15 he will be featured in an exhibition at Scheublein +Bak, Zurich. Recent shows including Galerie Yukiko Kawase Paris, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium Oslo, Arcuate Arte Contempareno, Monetrey, Mexico and Cynthia Broan New York. For his recent exhibition “ The Gathering”, London, Paris and Hamburg featured a./o. Marcus Coates, Jamie Shovlin a catalogue will be published.
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Screen Materials by Rob Smith revisits the nine sites of Robert Smithson’s Yucatan Mirror Displacements though the window of his laptop, materialising their images by placing photographic paper directly on the screen.
If you visit the sites (a doubtful probability) you find nothing but memory traces, for the mirror displacements were dismantled right after they were photographed. The mirrors are somewhere in New York. The reflected light has been erased. Remembrances are but numbers on a map, vacant memories constellating the intangible terrains in deleted vicinities. It is the dimension of absence that remains to be found. The expunged colour that remains to be seen. The fictive voices of the totems have exhausted their arguments. Yucatan is elsewhere. -- Robert Smithson. Incidents of Mirror Travel in the Yucatan 1969
His most recent pieces “Revisiting the Quarry: Excavation Legacy and Returen ” in collaboration with Charles Danby and “Elsewhere, Yucatan” engage with Robert Smithson’s demarcation of geographical sites. The Nonsite dissolves the sculptural logic of the discrete object within the now unstable vectors of space and time. British artist Rob Smith, in the here and now, continues to expand the legacies of Land Art in contemporary arts practice, extending it into the realm of apps, downloads and the internet.
Rob Smith is a studio artist at Wysing Arts Centre. In a residency there he recently explored the Rasberry Pi computer for creative application with the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. He has exhibited at Den Frie, Copenhagen, IMT Gallery, Turner Contemporary, Obrestad Lighthouse, Norway and Hue Artspace, Seoul, Korea.
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