Stories Being Told 12th March — 16th April 2011 Opening reception 11th March, 6 – 8 pm Stories Being Told is an exhibition of works by Dorota Jurczak (b.1978), Peter Linde Busk (b.1973) and Ryan Mosley (b. 1980), which capture narrative moments from ambiguous worlds. Dorota Jurczak’s etchings frequently employ dream perspective, the viewer hovering above disconcerting events unfolding beneath them. Another nightmarish scenario is played out in brightly coloured works where pieces of furniture have human faces, but are rooted to the spot, unable to flee or even express themselves. Peter Linde Busk’s images grow out of a frenzy of mark making. An accumulation of small gestures, some lines, some symbols, creates shadowy behemoths that loom but remain indistinct. If Jurczak’s characters are mute prisoners of their fates, and Linde Busk’s still coming into being, Ryan Mosley’s revel in their existence. Just one recurring element found on Mosley’s canvases is a top hat that could have been plucked from the head of Manet’s Absinthe Drinker (1859), which takes its place amid jumbles of possessed elements, characters of contradictory eras and societal strata coexisting in carnivalesque disorder. The darkness, be it melancholia, anxiety or subversion, that haunts Jurczak, Linde Busk and Mosley’s works reminds us of earlier forms of story-telling, such as the tales collated by the Brothers Grimm. The Grimm collections united stories told through- out feudal European times when the continent was thickly forested, frequently plague- ridden and barons were robbers. The gleefully chilling stories were not constrained by rationality like modern fictions. Indeed, since antiquity visions, fantasies and the imagination had been prized as sources of refined knowledge, till the advent of modern science debunked and devalued all that which was not empirical. It took Sigmund Freud to re-discover the lost territory of dreams and neuroses and to lay claim to its resources that can signal truths or urges hidden in the subconscious. For Freud, the artist could journey into fantasy and return with his discoveries; in this exhibition Jurczak, Linde Busk and Mosley show the spoils of their ramblings through that taboo realm, to places that logic would blind us to, but that are as much a part of the present as rational life. Aoife Rosenmeyer

Dorota Jurzcak Born 1978 in Warsaw, Poland. Studied in Hamburg. After many years in Berlin now lives in Brussels. Selected solo exhibitions: 2010 – Sies + Höke Gallery, Dusseldorf 2009 – Dépendance Gallery, Brussels 2008 – Corvi-Mora Gallery, London 2007 – P.S.1 MoMa. New York Selected group exhibitions: 2011 – BolteLang, Zurich 2010 – CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Phoenix Art Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg 2008 – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Chamarande 2007 – MARRES Centre of Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Kunsthalle Wien & Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna 2006 – Tate Modern, London, 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Seville, 4th Biennial of contemporary art, Berlin, Vanabbemusuem, Eindhoven 2005 – Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Peter Linde Busk Born 1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Studied at Slade School of Fine Art, London, Hunter College of Art, New York and The Royal Academy of Art, London. Lives in Berlin. Selected solo exhibitions: 2011 – Rob Tufnell Gallery, London 2010 - Christina Wilson Gallery, Copenhagen, Ancient and Modern Gallery, London 2006 – Slade School of Fine Art, London Selected group exhibitions: 2011 – BolteLang, Zurich 2010 – The Saatchi Gallery, London 2009 – The Royal Academy of Arts, London, International 3, Manchester 2007 – Martos Gallery, New York 2006 – Seven Seven Gallery, London, Mosing Hus, Copenhagan 2004 – Candid Arts Trust, London, Christina Wilson Gallery, Copenhagen Ryan Mosley Born 1980 in Chesterfield, UK. Studied at Royal College of Art, London. Lives in London. Selected solo exhibitions: 2010 – Grand Arts, Kansas, Alison Jacques Gallery, London 2009 – Regina Gallery, Moscow 2008 – Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna 2008 – Art Basel Miami Beach with Kerstin Engholm Gallery Selected group exhibitions: 2011 – BolteLang, Zurich, Magnus Karlsson Gallery, Stockholm, S1 Artspace, Sheffield 2010 The Saatchi Gallery, London 2009 The Saatchi Gallery at The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Jerwood Space, London, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel 2008 – Transition Gallery, London 2007 – Ibid Projects, London, Royal College of Art, London

Installation views Stories being told Dorota Jurczak, Peter Linde Busk and

Ryan Mosley 12th March – 16th April 2011

Installation view Stories being told

Installation view Stories being told, all works by Ryan Mosley

Ryan Mosley, A Cobra Mourning the Death of his Brother - Snake Skin Boots, 2008 Red Socks, 2008, Grave Robbers, Snake Skin Boot, 2008

All oil on linen, 65 x 55 cm

Installation view Stories being told

Peter Linde Busk, Boys of Summer, 2011, acrylics and crayon on linen, 185 x 145 cm Untitled, 2010, glazed and fired ceramics, 24 x 20 cm

Ryan Mosley, Still Life Afro Bean, 2008, oil on linen, 65 x 55 cm Dorota Jurczak, Kapelusz, 2009, mixed media on canvas, 100 x 80 cm

Peter Linde Busk, Boys of Summer, 2011, acrylics and crayon on linen, 185 x 145 cm

Peter Linde Busk, Untitled, 2010, glazed and fired ceramics, 24 x 20 cm Ryan Mosley, Still Life Afro Bean, 2008, oil on linen, 65 x 55 cm

Installation view Stories being told, all works by Dorota Jurczak

Dorota Jurczak, Kapelusz, 2009, mixed media on canvas, 100 x 80 cm Sowa, 2005, framed etching, 35.8 x 27.2 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP

Babuszka wstrictila balasa i Maciusia, 2003, framed etching, 29 x 34.5 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP

Dorota Jurczak, Kapelusz, 2009, mixed media on canvas, 100 x 80 cm

Dorota Jurczak, Sowa, 2005, framed etching, 35.8 x 27.2 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP Babuszka wstrictila balasa i Maciusia, 2003, framed etching, 29 x 34.5 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP

Dorota Jurczak, Zjawa, 2008, ink, acrylic and oil on canvas, 55 x 38 cm Fasada, 2006, framed etching, 75 x 50.5 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP

Wilson sichelschwanz A. M., 2004, framed etching, 21 x 17.5 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP

Dorota Jurczak, Zjawa, 2008, ink, acrylic and oil on canvas, 55 x 38 cm

Fasada, 2006, framed etching, 75 x 50.5 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP

Dorota Jurczak, Babuszka wstrictila balasa i Maciusia, 2003, framed etching, 29 x 34.5 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP Babuszka wstrictila balasa i Maciusia, Zla babka, 2003, framed etching, 34.5 x 29 cm, ed. of 3 + 1 AP

Installation view Stories being told

Installation view Stories being told, all works by Peter Linde Busk

Installation view Stories being told

Peter Linde Busk, The Late Bohemian, 2011, acrylics on linen, 108 x 78 cm

Peter Linde Busk, Cloak and Dagger, 2011, acrylics and crayon on linen, 105 x 80 cm

Peter Linde Busk, The youth is renewed like the eagle's, 2011, acrylics and crayon on linen, 65 x 50 cm Hail to the Thief, 2011, acrylics and crayon on linen, 65 x 50 cm

Peter Linde Busk, The Boys of Summer I, 2010, framed etching, 62 x 48 cm, ed. of 12 + 2 AP Preaching for the oxes and the horses, 2010, framed etching, 46 x 36 cm, ed. of 12 + 2 AP