by Thomas Langely
Founded in 2010, Marian Cramer Projects is focused on showing work by emerging and mid-career, mainly international artists who work across media ranging from painting, photography, sculpture and installation. Located in Amsterdam Oud Zuid, a part of my home has been turned into a gallery space aiming to spur discussion and create a deeper connection to the artwork organizing various events, such as lectures, talks with artists and special master classes bringing like-minded people together.
Always open by appointment!
Cathrin Hoffmann
Arno Beck
Thomas Langley
David Lindberg
Daniel Mullen
Cathrin Hoffmann, There’s a portal on the other side? 2020
Charcoal and Gel Medium on Hahnemühle Paper 29,7 cm x 42 cm
Arno Beck,
Untitled, 2020
acrylic ink on canvas
50 x 60 cm, unique
Thomas Langley, Mummy’s Boy (Pink with Yellow Text) 2020
oil bar, acrylic and oil on birch ply 60 x 40 cm
David Lindberg, Decade, 2020
Resin, pigment, multiplex 59 x 75 cm
Daniel Mullen 27-97 (Diptych) 2020
205 x 220 en 205 x 220 cm
Daniel Mullen, Days of the week, 2020
TOO MANY I IN DIGITAL
by Thomas Langely
Cathrin Hoffmann, The Wormhole At The Centre Of You, Oil and acrylic on canvas 100cm x 80cm
Arno Beck, born 1985 in Bonn. Lives and works in Germany
Arno Beck’s prints and conceptual paintings evolve around digital aesthetics and focus on analog production of digital images. Engaging with the language of digital culture the motifs are based on low resolution computer graphics, games and interfaces. It is an interplay between the contemporary digital screen world and traditional techniques.
Focusing on the analog production of computer generated imagery, he transforms those digital images into the pictorial space, capturing digital aesthetics with painterly means. With his hand he interferes where the machine claims its field of competence – humanizing technology and making it less perfect. Due to the lengthy manufacturing process, the deceleration itself becomes a main aspect in times of constant information overload and hasty screen based interactions. The screen world rejects any kind of physically experienceable surface structure and with increasing digitalization the human desire for haptic grows. Consequently, the transformation of those screen based impressions and the materialization into physical, haptic existence become one of the key aspects in his work.
The series of typewriter drawings is rooted in that search for an analog translation of digital imagery into the pictorial space. As these drawings are achieved by typing line by line on Japanese paper using an old-fashioned manual typewriter, Arno Beck utilizes different letters and symbols, which create a variety of differing brightness values. On closer inspection they could remind the viewer of binary codes, emphasizing the connection between the imagery and the digital world. In that particular series he depicts landscapes on an almost photographic level and includes elements from low resolution computer games. By combining those layers, Arno Beck fuses two completely different display modes into a seamless unity, exploring our relationship with the different perceptual realities surrounding us.
Cathrin Hoffmann is a German, Hamburg based artist, who grew up in the 90s.
Often, at first glance, her paintings seem deterrent. And despite the clear graphic visual language, the figurative shapes do not seem immediately recognizable as beings. Yet, those who connive at the alleged nauseated impulse will moreover find humor and hope in her paintings.
As a visual narrator, Cathrin looks at our society with the inherent human mortal existence of every individual. IS EVERYTHING A MYTH? That ambivalence generates her artistic tension, which is reflected in the aesthetics of the interplay of certain surfaces and becomes the mirror of our humanity. Smooth and polished with artificial 3D feel, which organically unites into strange bodies. For this she uses those image processing programs, she learned in the course of her education as a graphic designer and misuses those same effects until the pixels evolve into creatures. The artificiality is elevated to the form of life. In keeping with the prevailing cultural zeitgeist, which is characterized by the affinity for a copy, it finally reproduces its digital creation by immortalizing it on canvas in the same way.
While being the human printer, Cathrin competes with the machine and demonstrates on closer scrutiny that she has failed. Those color-saturated digital compositions that glow of illuminated screens, now move to the surfaces of non-sterile canvases where dirt and brush hairs will stick on it. In that fragments of its residual reality, it thrives a maybe even more human and comforting parallel dimension.
Thomas Langley born 1986 in London. Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
From an early age Thomas Langley was taught how to strip an entire car in an afternoon; breaking windows, unbolting seats, door trims off – anything that could burn – had to go. He learned that gloss is hard to paint onto a car body that’s both too cold or too hot – rendering it either congealed jelly or runny sticky toffee.
Langley’s dad was an amateur banger race enthusiast. Running with a crew of guys from the housing estate where he lived, he’d work tirelessly in the garage- swapping engines and parts or cutting out wheel arches and swearing from spanner bite. One of his earliest memories of painting on a surface, that wasn’t paper or a school desk, was of painting the old cars his dad would Frankenstein together ready for race day. Granadas, Cortinas, Jaguars and Wosleys were all choice racing muscle.
Revisiting this element of his childhood through painting and sculpture, Langley captures the very essence of his attitudes toward making and the handling of materials that can be traced back to the ‘slap it on and see what happens’ attitude of trial and error. The same attitude which his father always encouraged in him and explored in his own way though his addiction to the banger scene.
The race track setting becoming the focus of a body of painting, through which, enables Langley to play with compositional rhythms and two point perspectives that undulate and pulse without a need for realism or solid representational technique. Memories, not unlike old cars, deteriorate and fade – or rot. Memories of this bizarre childhood experience translated through paint into contorted compositions rendered in pastels, hazy and clouded yet violent and urgently unforgettable. Safety and resistance become the subject of a sculptural investigation chugging alongside a smash of paint and flying colour. The safety roll cage rendered in soap- aromatic and pungent – sits heavily weighted and anchored in free space. An obvious antidote to the robust masculine identity of the heavy welded H frame.
Installation views @LNDWstudio
MUMMY'S BOY
by Thomas Langely
An exhibition of new paintings by Thomas Langley.
In collaboration with five galleries, Langley shows works from his on-going series ‘Mummy’s boy’, for the first time in a dedicated solo exhibition.
Having started this nonsensical paradoxical quest to ‘buy mum a house’ during his studies at the Royal academy schools, Langley now fully fledged, flexes this newfound artistic adulthood with a big solo show hosted by Camden’s Cob gallery.
Large-scale text-based paintings sit alongside newly developed representational landscapes. This exhibition marks a completion in what until now has been an on-going series.
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Thomas Langley (b. 1986, UK), lives and works in London. Solo exhibitions include: Mega Alright Part II, Union Gallery, London, 2019, Just like anything, Marian Cramer, Amsterdam, 2018, Solo booth at Art on Paper, Marian Cramer, Amsterdam, 2018, Big Windows, The Arcade Project, London, 2018, Plastic Factory
(no place for me), 12 Piccadilly arcade, London, 2018, (Pipe) Dreamer, Royal academy schools graduation show, London, 2018, Future Absurdities, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, 2017, Art Type Stuff, Stour Space, London, 2016.
Group show with represented artists
by Thomas Langely
Painting, photography, video & sculpture
works by: Peter Bogers, Hideki Iinuma, Thomas Langley & David Lindberg
Hideki Iinuma
Anna, 2009
H 65x20x21cm
Cypress
THOMAS LANGLEY
by Thomas Langely
For his show, ” Just like anything”, Thomas Langley (b.1986 London, UK) will be presenting new sculpture and paintings.
Recent exhibitions include solo exhibition, ‘BIG WINDOWS’ Arcade Project, during Frieze London 2018, Art Type Stuff, Stour Space, London (2016); and group exhibitions, YOU SEE ME LIKE A UFO, The Grange, Royal Ascot (2017); A series of pocket Utopias, Yellow Brick and Snehta, Athens (2017); It is what it isn’t, Big Shed, Aldeburgh (2017); Cut, Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London (2017); Premiums: Interim Projects, Royal Academy, London (2017); Zone d’Utopie Temporaire Part II, The Koppel Project Hive, London (2016); Charley Thomas, CRATE, Margate (2014); and Mega Alright, The Horse Bridge Centre, Whitstable (2012).
Thomas Langley graduated from Royal Academy Schools (2018) and previously studied Fine Art at University for the Creative Arts Canterbury, Kent.
by Thomas Langely
ELENA BEELAERTS (NL)
THOMAS LANGELY (UK)