COME AND SEE
David’s current exhibition of paintings
SUPERSINGULAR
at the lovely converted bakery
Basket House Village Universe
Leswin Place
Stoke Newington
London N16 7NJ
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until Sunday 20 March 2011
OPENING TIMES
Saturdays & Sundays
from 12-6pm
OR MAKE AN APPOINTMENT
Email: david@davidcaines.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)787 988 3593
GETTING THERE
Bus: 67, 73, 76, 106, 149, 243
Rail: Rectory Rd, Dalston Kingsland, Dalston Junction
Thanks to everyone came along to the opening of the exhibition Supersingular last night in Stoke Newington. BHVU was packed and the beer ran out. The highlight of the evening had to be a fantastic set of French pop classics by the wonderful SURI ET LES COPAINS. Watch them perform Les Cactus at last night’s opening here! Thanks to everyone who helped, especially Charlotte Lindsay from BHVU.
Don’t miss the exhibition which is open each weekend for the next month from 12-6pm.
SUPERSINGULAR
DAVID CAINES
PAINTINGS
25 Feb – 20 Mar 2011
Basket House Village Universe
London N16 7NJ
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Open 12-5pm
Saturday & Sunday
or by appointment
Email: info@bhvu.co.uk
Tel: 0207 2410568
A reminder that tomorrow FRIDAY 25 FEBRUARY is the opening of my solo painting show
SUPERSINGULAR
DAVID CAINES
PAINTINGS
at the lovely converted bakery
Basket House Village Universe
London N16 7NJ
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6-9pm
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LIVE MUSIC
I’m proud to annouce that the marvellous band
**SURI ET LES COPAINS**
will be performing a live set on the night at 8pm.
Hear them explore the Gallic world of 60′s mondo yeh-yeh, 50′s lounge and psychedelic swing!!
Don’t you dare miss them!
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Drinks afterwards at THE WHITE HART in Stoke Newington High Street.
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SUPERSINGULAR
DAVID CAINES
PAINTINGS
25 Feb – 20 Mar 2011
Basket House Village Universe
London N16 7NJ
MAP
Open 12-5pm
Saturday & Sunday
or by appointment
Email: info@bhvu.co.uk
Tel: 0207 2410568
Here’s a sneaky preview of what you can expect to see…
David’s figurative paintings show us real people, but don’t show us the real world. It’s a carefully rearranged world of anxious encounters and deviant ritual aiming to invoke feelings of foreboding and melancholy in us.
The pictures sit outside of a recognisable time-frame and often represent unlikely groups of curious and seemingly disparate characters (a shaman, a figure wrapped in polythene, masked children, contortionists). Their intentions are ambiguous. Are they the welcoming committee or the death squad? Entertainers or sorcerers? It is left up to us to conjure the narrative.
Other pictures suggest a fundamentally ridiculous relationship between humans and simple machinery (a woman who seems to have coalesced with her sewing machine, a headless man being led around by a wheelbarrow).
“I heard someone describe David’s work as poignant and I think that’s true… without wanting to get too deep, it seems like a comment on the human condition, that in the end we’re all alone.” Simone Pereira Hind, critic
SUPERSINGULAR
DAVID CAINES
PAINTINGS
25 Feb – 20 Mar 2011
Basket House Village Universe
London N16 7NJ
MAP
Open 12-5pm
Saturday & Sunday
or by appointment
Email: info@bhvu.co.uk
Tel: 0207 2410568
Art critic Simone Pereira Hind has written this lovely review of SALON16 for the summer issue of local magazine N16…
Sim and Steve visit SALON16
Sim – Well here we are at David Caines’ home on Lordship Road, temporarily transformed into a new art venue and hosting the exhibition We Who Are Not as Others. Have you had a good look around?
Steve – I have. David is showing his own paintings, his brother Matthews’ Jacob Epsteinesque sculptures, and photographs by David Swindells, Tess Hurrell and Kalpesh Lathigra. The work is immaculately presented in the garden, garden studio and in parts of the house. The staging is intimate without being domestic.
Sim – What’s the title all about then? Looking around I’m struck by the idea of ‘outsiders’ in much of the work, such as in Lathigra’s photographs of Sioux Native Americans. The subjects seem alone and lost in the landscape, ironic given that they are the indigenous people. And Swindells’ photos of London clublife star larger-than-life characters like Leigh Bowery, who dare to be different. I’m particularly drawn to his YMCA-style go-go dancer print. Very sexy, but weird to think the guy is dressed as a ‘Red Indian’, given that I’ve just been looking at Lathigra’s work.
David’s work reminds me of one of my favourite films, Freaks, Tod Browning’s 1932 film set in a freak show in which he cast real sideshow performers with deformities. As well as alluding to circus perfomers David’s paintings often represent groups of seemingly disparate people; an aviator, a contortionist and a shaman for instance, who seem unaware of each other, don’t relate to one another, yet share a space on the canvas. I heard someone describe the work as poignant just now and I think that’s true.
Steve – Without wanting to get too deep, it seems like a comment on the human condition, that in the end we’re all alone.
Sim – Oy, oy Steve. Cheer up, it may never ‘appen. Come and have a look at Tess Hurrell’s work if you’re going to get all earnest on me. As well as being technically accomplished her images are truly enigmatic. In the three photos entitled Basic Needs she transforms mundane objects - wipers, a chair and an umbrella into mysterious objects of beauty and her Drawing Light No. 1 suggests the sublime in spite of its exposing its own construction. They’re beautiful.
Steve – You know, thinking about it, We Who Are Not As Others is also a reference to these artists kicking the mainstream and taking control of showing their work, rather than relying on the vagaries of the art world. It’s the enthusiasm of people like David Caines that helps guarantee a thriving art scene in spite of the much-discussed financial meltdown at our midst. I’m happy to report that this may be the first of many shows that David plans to curate in this space.
INAUGURAL EXHIBITION – ‘WE WHO ARE NOT AS OTHERS’
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: David Caines, Matthew Caines, Tess Hurrell, Kalpesh Lathigra, David Swindells
WHEN CAN I VISIT?
Salon16 is open to the public from SATURDAY 20 JUNE – FRIDAY 26 JUNE 2009.
CAN I VISIT AFTER WORK?
Yes – on WEDNESDAY 24 & THURSDAY 25 JUNE Salon16 will be open from 10.30am – 9.00pm.
WHERE IS SALON16?
Salon16 is in the home of artist David Caines in Stoke Newington. The address is 88 Lordship Road, Stoke Newington, London N16 0QP. Just knock on the basement door and you will be shown around.
HOW DO I GET THERE?
Stoke Newington does not have an Underground Station. Nearest stations are Angel tube, then take bus 73 or 476 to Stoke Newington Church Street, OR Finsbury Park tube, then take bus 106 to Lordship Road. Buses 67, 149, 243 also will take you there.
HOW DO I FIND OUT MORE?
Call David on 0787 988 3593 if you’d like to find out more about Salon16.
