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Wed 19 Jan, 2011

Wed 19 Jan, 2011

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STATEMENT

Recently founded and based in London but working across Britain and beyond, Fountain commissions, curates, produces and presents contemporary art projects with a focus on international collaboration and exchange. Ranging from artists moving image, complex site-specific installations to small-large scale touring exhibitions, Fountain projects are produced with an emphasis on process, and often take place in unfamiliar locations.

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PROJECTS

Into the world of palpable objects and fruitful delight



Fan Chon Hoo

Curated by Keith Whittle

3rd - 26th February 2011 - Private View 3rd February 2011 - 6.30pm to 8.30pm

Eleven Spitalfields Gallery
11 Princelet Street
Spitalfields
London E1 6QH
020 7247 1816

Opening Times: Tuesdays to Sundays, 12 - 6 pm and by appointment


Eleven Spitalfields Gallery and Fountain is delighted to present the first solo exhibition dedicated to the work of emerging Malaysian artist Fan Chon Hoo.

Shortlisted for the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4’s New Sensations 2010, and recently selected for the Catlin Art Guide 'The artists to watch in 2011', Fan Chon Hoo is an artist with a uniquely compelling visual language. By assuming the role of a modern day amateur antiquarian and anthropologist, one informed by earlier figures of 18th and 19th century travellers and amateur naturalists, Hoo explores the role that cultural artefacts have as residues and deposits of the process of cultural translation.

Amongst these cultural artefacts, the Willow Pattern chinaware and the Victorian copper jelly mould underline for Hoo the notion of cultural translation. In works such as the ‘Blue and White Collection’; a series of paper earthenware works created in response to the Willow Pattern invented by English craftsmen in the late eighteenth century and embellished with imaginary landscapes made up of oriental architectural structures, exoticised follies from ornamental gardens found within the UK, Hoo playfully explores how a foreign culture can be appropriated and translated then subconsciously tucked into the local culture. On the other hand, The 'jelly moulds' collection explores the seeming de rigueur of the decorative Victorian dessert to individual nostalgia and moral sentiment. Crafted from brightly coloured and luminous gelling agents imported from Indonesia and produced from moulds informed by Rococo & Neoclassical architectural details, these eloquent and beguiling works attempt to call attention to the incongruous relation of expropriation and appropriation.

Exhibited in the highly fitting setting of No. 11 Princelet Street. One of number of Georgian town houses built in Spitalfields in the late 17th and 18th centuries, a period defined by the 'new luxury' of Eastern ornamentation in affluent society of eighteenth & nineteenth century Britain, Into the world of palpable objects and fruitful delight is an encounter with Fan Chon Hoo’s prodigious talent for creating accomplished and thoughtful works that evoke and echo the authentic, and through his own idiosyncratic experimentations and irreverent exploration of artifice, question the positing of origin.

Fan Chon Hoo was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1982 and studied photography at London College of Communications. Aged 28, he will be the youngest artist to exhibit at Eleven Spitalfields Gallery. Fan Chon Hoo’s work was exhibited at The House of Nobelemen, 2 Cornwell Terrace as part of Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4’s New Sensations 2010, organised to find and support the most imaginative and talented artists graduating in the UK.

Keith Whittle

For further press material please contact Eleven Spitalfields Gallery: 020 7247 1816 or info@elevenspitalfields.com - http://www.elevenspitalfields.com/
or Keith Whittle at Fountain: keithwhittle@fountainprojects.co.uk - http://www.fountainprojects.co.uk/

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