[ Xamples ]

A young mans wanders to all sorts of exhibitions and trips to the places where art is all that’s talked about. On a  visit to The Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art and Design for the Xamples 2007-2012 exhibition with Ksenia-Artdicted| By Teucer.

Only yesterday, Wednesday the 1^st of February, did Xamples 2007-2012 open grandiosely for an ever so anticipated exhibition. At the newly built Triangle Gallery housed at Chelsea school of Art and Design, the aforementioned exhibition showed the most recent and celebrated works of 11 international artists, recipients of the Cecil Lewis Sculpture scholarship at the University of the Arts London. Never before has there been a collective exhibition of these scholars' work, a fact that amplified the excitement of being at this particular private view.

The eclectic sense of the outcome is easily  felt as one enters this rather interesting space, as for its shape and ergonomics, where the three sides of the triangle become the temple in which the works are in constant dialogue. The phantasmagoric outcome perplexes and exaltes oneself in a universe where societal ideas on identity, natural forces, l'art naïve, the super ego and various other concepts are re-interpreted through the physical means of the sculptures. 

Voila l'artiste, that caught my eye:

Ula Darjerling is 32, Polish in origin, a London based artist. One can venture to  describe her as a conceptual artist whose work aims to "examine approaches to the 'formless' through a series of investigations that foreground natural forces and also non visual senses such as smell, sound and touch", as the artist describes in her biographical note.

© Ula Darjerling, Amnesia & Oscillation
 2009, Wax, 15x10cm.

© Ula Dajerling, Amnesia & Oscillation
2009, 12 Prints, 29x23cm.

In her work presented titled 'Amnesia & Oscillation', Ula creates a micro-universe which exists in its own integrity. The dark dense nature-inspired texture proposes a metaphor for reality where Ula seems to describe that it exists entre the "assurance that yesterday was as substantial as today" as well the reaffirmation of antiquated memory. The sculptures are created by pouring hot wax into water, a re-interpretation of a Polish tradition.

© Ula Darjerling, Amnesia & Oscillation
 2009, Wax, 15x10cm

The Xamples 2007-2012 exhibition is only on up until Saturday the 4^th of February at The Triangle Gallery  at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street London SW1P 4JU.

The Cecil Lewis Sculpture Scholarship is awarded each year to two or more promising artists chosen from across the University of the Arts London college's, which offer MA Fine Art. For further information about the scholarships click here.