Merlin Carpenter
Solo Show II - All Power to the Factory Outlets
Solo Show II - All Power to the Factory Outlets
21.05.2013 - 30.06.2013
Temnikova & Kasela gallery
Lastekodu 1, Tallinn
Opening 21.05.2013 at 7pm
Merlin Carpenter is a (young)
British artist working and living in London.
For his first show in Estonia,
the artist will re-stage “Solo Show”, an exhibition hosted by the Miami gallery
Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club in 2010. It consisted of 37 (36?) large
fabric paintings—pieces of fake Burberry check textile on a wooden frame—hung
at crazy angles, almost on top of each, other around the walls of a large
beachside white cube. (Do you wanna mention
anything specific about the Tallinn show? That it will be hung differently
etc?)
After the show closes in
Tallinn, Carpenter will drive the works in a
van through various places around Eastern Europe. (Aliina, we must
somehow insert here that this is a Propaganda tour bringing Western luxuries to
the ex-Soviet East, and a reference to Trotsky’s civil war train). (—it might be good to mention that the goods arrive at
the time when the East is starting to realise the implications of its own
desire to become Westernised?) The tour will feature galleries and
locations in Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Russia. (Should
we mention these locations?)(Plus I drove an empty van from London to
Porto last year!)
Carpenter’s recent solo shows
include “POLICE” at dépendance, Brussels (2013); “funky house” at Limazulu,
London (2012); “TATE CAFÉ” at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York (2012), and
Simon Lee Gallery, London (2011); “Heroes” at MD72, Berlin (2011); and a show
at Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles (2011). (I
just listed some of the recent ones you’ve done, but feel free to change this
list...)(done)