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
I’m proud to annouce that the marvellous band
**SURI ET LES COPAINS**
will be performing a live set at the SUPERSINGULAR PRIVATE VIEW at 8pm on Friday 25 february.
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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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
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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
Despite the sunny days in the studio, I still seem to be producing some seriously gloomy paintings. The title of the latest “Why don’t you kill yourself?” will be familiar to fans of brilliant 70s post-punk rockers The Only Ones.
I have added some new work to the ART section including ‘The Last Thing I Remember’, a new painting in a series tentatively titled ‘Ordinary Monsters’. More paintings in this series can be seen here…
The Last Thing I Remember (2009)