Soze Gallery, Los Angeles presents:

Remi Rough
Further Adventures in Abstraction

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19 July 2014 – 19 August 2014

“Remi’s work has always been about creating tension between bold yet beautiful colours and a highly considered balance between the forms he uses.”

Remi Rough has gradually evolved into one of the UK’s leading ‘post-graffiti’ abstract painters. In this, his most colourful and complete body of work, Remi has created over 50 new pieces on paper, wood, and canvas that strengthen his resolve within the discipline of abstract painting...
His use of colour and line is critically acclaimed, which has led to his work being acquired by some of the most influential contemporary collectors in the United States and Europe.

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The Geometry of Colour

“Remi Rough has been making images for more than a quarter of a century. His art began on walls and trains in South London in 1984; today it has been exhibited in cities such as Miami, Newcastle, Berlin and New York. A respected train writer, Remi has also played a significant part in the development of ‘abstract graffiti’, a term that seems far too clinical to describe the accomplishments of his work, which has always been about the interplay of colour and shape.

His colour palette –and it seems to include an infinite range of shades and combinations – is worked out through deceptively simple arrangements of lines and angles that bring colours into unexpected encounters with each other. Much of this has been done on canvasses large and small, bringing the movement and style of train writing, condensed to its essential ingredients of line and colour, into the space of the gallery. And as part of the collective Agents of Change, Remi has also been re-imagining public spaces, whether in an abandoned ‘ghost village’ in Scotland, now transformed into a massive outdoor gallery, or on the exterior of the Megaro Hotel in the centre of London, offering passersby the sight of a new and dramatic mural five storeys high.

While Remi’s art has always been about creating dimension within the depths of a canvas or a wall, his new works have taken that idea in an exciting new direction, by transforming a three dimensional object such as a skull through the application of paint and by extracting complex shapes from the flat canvas into sculptural forms. The interplay of line and colour on Remi’s canvasses speak to his fascination with artists such as Kazimir Malevich; these new works point to a dialogue with shape and space, following sculptors such as Richard Serra. And to me that makes perfect sense, for who is better placed to understand the interplay of colour, form and line than an artist with the kind of history that shapes Remi’s work – a history that begins with trains moving through the city and that weaves together gallery, graffiti and the architecture of the city.
When we look at Remi’s images today, we think about the spaces around us, whether in a gallery or a city street, and
we lose ourselves in the sheer pleasure that he offers us through the geometry of colour.”

- Professor Alison Young, University of Melbourne

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Director
 - Toowee@sozegallery.com
PR
 - KristinBauer@sozegallery.com

I'm afraid I'm not going out to LA myself. You would have to ask Toowee at Soze Gallery to send you one.
Sorry.

No worries, I will drop them an email to see if it is possible. Cheers

Always a pleasure to deal with.  

We should have the pdf by Monday hopefully.
There are quite a lot of pieces in this show.

... I did email Toowee, but no reply - hopefully on the PDF waiting list?

I haven't had much luck with a response in the past from her in regards to other shows (or even after trying a few of the other listed contacts).  At least the gallery is moving to a space a few blocks from my apartment so I can now stalk them that way. 

If you ever have any problems and it's one of the AOC artists, Augustine Kofie, Remi Rough or Jaybo Monk, please feel free to drop myself a line.

We can usually get things moving from our end.
Susie x