Flash Point
ivan jones / renate hegyi

Fri 10/03/06 – Sun 2/04/06

The East London based Gone Tomorrow Gallery is opening its second exhibition Flash Point on Friday 10th March until Sunday 2nd April, with an exhibition of two emerging photographers – Ivan Jones and Renata Hegyi, who each capture landscape in different ways.

The exhibition is bringing together their work to look at the contrasting styles of exterior and interior landscape photography.

Ivan Jones’ photographs from the ongoing series New Town, looks at the misguided architectural developments of 1960’s Teesside. The photos are both a critique to urban development and a celebration of the banal. Jones creates monuments out of ill-conceived town planning – highlighting the underwhelming nature of an urban landscape that speaks of poverty, and lack of investment and care. www.ivan-jones.co.uk

Renata Hegyi’s beautiful photographs evoke the scale and depth of paintings. It seems remarkable that within her carefully studied interior world, such images exist and can be captured for that moment. Her work painstakingly creates a homage to the intricate interior domain that we inhabit – representing these worlds as dark and subtle spaces. A 1970’s carpet it reinterpreted as a swirling waterfall descending into the unknown – a bed becomes a vast landscape, and a table becomes a horizon point.

By exhibiting both these photographers together, the Gone Tomorrow Gallery aims to create a dialogue about landscape and the way in which photographs encapsulate and represent their environments.

 

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