Philip Newcombe 'COMPANY' exhibition at Maria Stenfors

Maria Stenfors, Unit 10, 21 Wren Street, London
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This event ended on Saturday 7th of June 2014
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Free
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Maria Stenfors, Unit 10, 21 Wren Street, London

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Russell Square 0.47 miles

Maria Stenfors is proud to present Philip Newcombe's first solo exhibition with the gallery. COMPANY is a selection of new works that both function within the gallery space and at times cross over into the public domain.

Newcombe often uses familiar and democratic objects such as lollipops, darts, folded up paper, thread, perfume, other people's business cards and scent dispensers. By adding to or subtracting from these with subtle and well aimed interventions, the possible narratives seem ambiguous, contradictory, open ended and looped; revealing truths, half-truths, red herrings and trip-ups. Sometimes not all is what it seems to be. Although titles can describe an activity ('20 pints of milk dispersed throughout a city', for example), there is rarely any photographic documentation of the event or a date or any other superfluous conceptual padding to justify the action. There seems no need. Instead they stubbornly hover in the territory between fact and fiction.

Image: Philip Newcombe 'Portable Blue Screen Anonymity', 2014, Blue plastic bag, Edition 1 of 7 billion (photo: Mike Taylor)

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