Reveal the Tension: The Grid, the Cut, the Body and the Absurd

Artworks by Adeline de Monseignat

Opening Night: 24 January 2011

Exhibition: 24 January 2011 – 4 February 2011

Adeline de Monseignat's work aims to awaken the viewer's sensations and emotions by creating uncanny scenarios in which it is often the artwork that is asking a question rather than imposing itself on the viewer.

Widely varied in terms of the organic forms and tones of her artworks, this exhibition brings together a great number of recent objects, sculptures, paintings, drawings, and surprising installations brought to life thanks to natural materials such as wood, paper, coffee and eggshell.

With inspiration found in movements such as Surrealism and Arte Povera, de Monseignat is interested in finding harmony in the contrasting qualities of strength and fragility, by incorporating the trickery of the eye through visual illusions.

For more information about the exhibition, please contact Samia Calbayrac, curator of this exhibition at info@thenormanreagallery.com

For information about this and future exhibitions, see the Norman Rea Gallery website

The opening is preceded with a lecture by Dr Michael White and the artist Adeline de Monseignat, at 5:15 pm in L/N/002.