This is the last week of the show and the last chance to see Bureau’s launch exhibition Imperial, the first solo show for Italian-born artist Seb Patane, currently short-listed for Beck’s Futures 2006.
Patane’s work consists of interventions with different audio-visual sources, found either by chance or actively researched. News cuttings, photographs, prints, records, sound samples and stories shape a body of work consisting of drawings, installations, sculptures and sound pieces. Imperial features appropriated imagery from the turn of the century, which Patane intervenes with to create a series of new drawings, prints and ‘contaminated’ record covers. A notion of the otherworldly is a reoccurring theme throughout the work; existing imagery is concealed and distorted by the artist via intensely overlaid ink marks, reminiscent of hair masses and ghostly birds.
Concepts of compulsion and possession are paired with visual techniques of concealment; an engagement with the original narrative of an image develops into an attempt to construct a more complex plot, combining the old with the new.
Bureau has commissioned a new work, to be created especially for Imperial. Patane presents a sound piece, a prepared composition, fading in and out at intervals between silence and sound; sampling beats and loops to produce a kind of electronic tribalism. He references electronic music as a metaphor for contemporary tribalism and as a signifier for consciousness-altering practices.
These sound loops and samples, combined with Patane’s original compositions, are constructed in such a way as to create a synergy with the other works in Imperial. The sound is as crucial as the visual element in the reading of the work. Each aspect becomes in fact synonymous with the other, as the unification of aesthetics and sound creates yet another extended narrative for Patane’s interventions.
MORE ON SEB PATANE: Seb Patane was born in Italy, 1970. He studied at Central St. Martin’s College of Art & Design and Goldsmiths University, London. He was awarded the ACAVA First Base Award in 2003 and his work features in various collections, including The Judith Rothschild Contemporary Drawing Collection.
Patane’s work recently featured in Untitled magazine. Group exhibitions in London include: The Black Album, Maureen Paley; Kick it till it breaks, VTO Gallery; Pretty Little Things, The Ship; and Bootleg, Spitalfields Market. Patane has also exhibited internationally in Contrapop, at Vamiali’s in Athens and is currently in a group show While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body, at the Migros Museum in Zurich, curated by Raphael Gygax & Heike Munder. Patane is short-listed for Beck’s Futures 2006, showing at the ICA, London, CCA in Glasgow and Arnolfini, Bristol. He is represented by Maureen Paley, London and has a forthcoming solo show at the gallery in September 2006. Seb Patane currently lives and works in London.
MORE ON BUREAU: Bureau is a new, purpose-built, independent art gallery, which provides a platform for dynamic, exciting and experimental work by emerging and established national and international artists. In addition to exhibitions, Bureau presents live events such as artist’s film & video screenings, experimental music, performance, and talks by artists and arts professionals.
Complimentary to the exhibitions and events programme, Bureau supports artists’ creative and professional development with seminars, debates, e-newsletters, resources, which include an Artist’s Film & Video archive and an Artist’s Books & Publications archive, viewable by appointment.
The Directors are Sophia Crilly and Mark Kennard, both practicing artists and curators.
Exhibition runs until Saturday 29th April 2006
Bureau Gallery, Ground Floor, Islington Mill, James Street, Salford. M3 5HW
+44 (0) 7757 956555 / info@bureaugallery.com / <http://www.bureaugallery.com/>
Open Wednesday to Saturday 11 – 5pm / Free Admission / Fully Accessible.
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