Simon Callery presents at our gallery a set of works made expressly for the occasion, brought together under the title Blue and Black Puncture Paintings. The exhibition consists of small and large-format pieces that dialogue with one another.
Puncture painting is the term with which the artist defines the pieces whose front surfaces have been pierced and punctured. These works are built from canvases worked directly on site, both in urban environments and in nature. In his most recent works, Callery has worked in the bed of the River Thames at low tide, near his home in east London, as well as on the banks of the Thames estuary, near his studio in south Essex.
There, deposited by the water onto the riverbed, beaches of pebbles, fragments of ceramic and remains of masonry emerge. The banks are covered by countless plastic objects of all kinds and sizes. By cutting the fabrics directly on these surfaces, the artist obtains a textile full of small perforations and holes.
Callery's studio also functions as an alternative space of sedimentation.