Twist in My Sobriety

curated by Cartel featuring works by Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom and Doris Day

28 August - 22 September 2010

Cartel Gallery is pleased to present Twist in My Sobriety, a two-person exhibition of Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom and Doris Day , curated by Cartel.

"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." Groucho Marx

Sculpture becomes filmed process and paintings continue via their frame onto the floor to become sculpture. Appau Junior and Doris both play with double-meanings, twists of phrase and slight of hand applied to visual presentation. Readymade's and surreal combinations get an urban touch. Effective simplicity means the work does not remain slapstick but rises beyond this to elegantly skim art historical propositions.

Doris Day starts with drawing complex figurative fantasy figures, which he inserts into a grid which appears like a simple drawing device but turns out to be an invented set of lines, which break up the figure, shaving off bits here and there. The grids are removed and reappear on top of the frame, re-iterating the gesture, this time in gold. In other works one frame mirrors the content of an identical one. The works communicate with and reflect on themselves.

Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom concentrates on filming the experimental process used for creating sculptures. Starting with ordinary objects, his camera focuses on the finer detail which gives the materials a rich texture, like his spinning fan which becomes an iridescent gold wheel. Part-performance, part- unravelling of sculpture, the work is both elegant and irreverent like More Than Naked , where an' umbrella's handle pushes down a spraycan which in turn sprays a pair of shoes.

Doris Day graduated in drawing at Wimbledon School of Art in 2006. He has had solo shows at ON/OFF Royal Academy2009, Warwick University 2008, and a group show this year at Departure gallery.  

Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom studied Fine Art Painting at Winchester School of Art and completed his Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy Schools in 2008. He has shown at Josh Lilley Gallery, the Frank-Suss collection, John Jones Project Space and The Bluecoat Gallery.