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Cathie Pilkington: Estin Thalassa

Past exhibition
1 June - 9 July 2021 Karsten Schubert London
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Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021 © Perou

Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021
© Perou 

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Cathie Pilkington’s new exhibition, Estin Thalassa, at Karsten Schubert London's Room 2, is an extravagant and claustrophobic response to the dislocation and disorientation of the current times, an accumulation of manically cobbled and carefully composed elements and images, combining furniture-like structures – screens, dividers, fabric banners and richly painted velvet wall-hangings with traditionally modelled and polychromed sculptural objects.

 

The installation presents the spectator with optically dazzling patterns and motifs that flow unconstrained across disparate decorated surfaces alternately emphasising or camouflaging three-dimensional form and volume in a kind of excessive Gothic Vorticism.

 

Interwoven themes of disintegration, death, rebirth and reparation reveal a reflexive picturing of the creative process itself, an extended poemagogic meditation on the inheritance of the grand sculptural tradition filtered through lowly derivatives such as garden ornaments, toys and dolls. The result is a confusion of heterogenous styles and registers, a collision of folk culture and canonical high art motifs in a mass of dirty, glittery art historical laundry.

 

The exhibition is accompanied with a new essay by Neil Walton.

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Installation Views
  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021 © Perou

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021
    © Perou 

  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021 © Perou

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021
    © Perou 

  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021 © Perou

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021
    © Perou 

  • Installation view, Room 2, 2021. © Perou

    Installation view, Room 2, 2021. © Perou

  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021 © Perou

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021
    © Perou 

  • Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021 © Perou

    Installation view, Karsten Schubert London, 2021
    © Perou 

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Publications
  • Cathie Pilkington

    Cathie Pilkington

    Estin Thalassa 2021 Softcover 23pp pages
    Dimensions: 25x 17 cm
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News
  • Cathie Pilkington – interview: ‘It’s great to have a title that makes people think’

    Cathie Pilkington – interview: ‘It’s great to have a title that makes people think’

    By Anna McNay for Studio International Read more
  • New Prints: Cathie Pilkington

    New Prints: Cathie Pilkington

    A selection of works to accompany her current solo show, Estin Thalassa Read more
  • London Gallery Weekend

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  • Representation of Cathie Pilkington

    Representation of Cathie Pilkington

    Karsten Schubert London is proud to announce new artist representation Read more

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