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Carlo Keshishian
About
Born in November of 1980, London (UK)
(note: my work is fairly detailed. Please see my website for larger photos)
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In Carlo Keshishian’s work, much of what I find to be most interesting is the consistent adherence to mark making that elicits in tandem, both visceral (optical) sensations as well as philosophical percepts.
Specifically, in works such as The Intricacies of Carlo’s Brain (1999), Family (2006),or The Void II (2007) the images are made up of labor intensive, near compulsive drawing that forms an image bearing unavoidable comparison to things found in that 17th C. invention we call the natural world. This slow burn process of building images through repetition, almost centrifugally, is an act that mirrors a biological precedent but also utilizes line both to articulate and actually contain time. What is also particularly compelling is the organization of marks along an x-y axis that wholly avoid being governed by a grid. And here lies a fruitful problem; even while as objects, these works exist on a flat rectangular field, Keshishian’s project hints at continuum. An extended life beyond the four square limits of the page or canvas.
Line also articulates things beyond words just as quality and type of line can produce as much information as we are prepared to allow. So it is interesting that works like Picture Worth a Thousand Words (1999), Tears (2010), and Diary March/Feb. (2010) are made up of text. Reading these images, as opposed to reading a book, requires the viewer to literally adjust his/her distance in front of the surface. Up close, it is possible to make out the words and sentences and from a distance the images appear almost as textiles or geological strata. We are presented with an image made up of already codified marks (text) that risk further incoherence by their mashed up placement. To my mind, the fact these images are pleasurable to look at and given the artists commitment to his time consuming process, I think there is some promise in what lies ahead.
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- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Website
- http://www.carlokeshishian.com
https://www.facebook.com/carlokeshishian
Works have been acquired and are in private collections in Africa, Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Kuwait, Lebanon, Russia, Turkey, UK and USA.
AWARDS
2009
Outside In, Pallant House, Chichester, UK
One of Six winners, of 530 artists, 850 works of art submitted, 150 pieces shown at the exhibition.
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS/ COMMUNITY WORK
June 2011 – Present
Delivering a series of art workshops and facilitating surgery days for both Outside In/Step Up and the Hans Feibusch Club, at:
Bethlem Gallery, Kent, UK
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Cooltan Arts, London, UK
The Old Fire Station, Oxford, UK
November 25th 2011
Speaking at UK Museums on the Web conference
Imperial War Museum
London, UK
October 2010 - March 2011
Associations
A Collaborations! Project, funded by the 2012 Olympics, with sound artist/composer Anya Ustaszewski, visual artist Carlo Keshishian, and athlete Alexandra Adams, instructed by Accentuate/Creative Junction.
MISCELLANIOUS
2010
Panel Discussion
On panel for discussion about Outsider Art at the University of Chichester alongside;
Pallant House Head of Learning, Marc Steene,
Outsider Art colletor, Rose Knox
University of Chichester Principal Lecturer and Subject Head of Fine Art , Steve McDade
Curartorial Practice
PORTALS
at Wellington House, Brighton, UK
Group Show
Co-curated the group exhibition 'Portals' as part of the Brighton Festival with;
Julia Elmore, Raw Vision Magazine Senior Editor
http://www.aoh.org.uk/house-festival/1-outside-in-brighton
Album cover art
Do Drugs- Do Drugs
ILK168CD/VME
http://www.lauratoxvaerd.dk/
Selected Publications
June 2011
Pallant House Gallery Magazine, No.24
Article by Carlo Keshishian on Nick Blinko, p.35
Published by Pallant House Gallery
May 2011
Pallant Press, issue 6
Carlo Keshishian article, p.5
Published by Pallant House Gallery
April 2011
Green Rhino Hunts #2
Desires, Nightmares, and Dreams II article
Published by The Running Horse Contemporary Arts Space
October 2010
Everything #2
Carlo Keshishian profile, p.70-71
Published by The Museum of Everything
ISBN 978-0-9565223-1-3
Summer 2010
Raw Vision, RV69
Raw News, p.4
Published by Raw Vision Ltd.
March 2010
Pallant Press, issue 4
Carlo Keshishian article, p.2
Published byPallant House Gallery
December 2009
L'Orient Le Jour, Saturday 12th Dec.
Desires, Nightmares, and Dreams article
Published by L'Orient Le Jour daily newspaper
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Art
Events & Exhibitions
Exhibitions
2012
BEIRUT ART FAIR
5th July - July 8th
Represented by The Running Horse Contemporary Arts Space
Beirut, Lebanon
CIRCUS TERMINAL
28th June - July 10th
Group show at Impaktes Visuals Gallery
Barcelona, Spain
WITHIN WITHOUT YOU
25th May- 10th June
Group show at Fringe Arts Bath
Bath, UK
SONGS OF ORDINARY MADNESS
7th May - June 7th
Group show at The Running Horse Contemporary Arts Space
Beirut, Lebanon
SHOWCASE
31st January- 27th February
Group show at Pallant House Gallery
Chichester, UK
2011
SLICK ART FAIR
18th - 23rd October
Represented by The Running Horse Contemporary Arts Space
alongside Rasha Kahil, Hiba Kalache and Alfred Tarazi
at the Palais de Tokyo
Paris, France
DESIRES, NIGHTMARES, AND DREAMS II
9th May - 11th June
Group show at The Running Horse Contemporary Arts Space
Beirut, Lebanon
COLLABORATIONS / ASSOCIATIONS
12th-17th April
Collaborative group show at Brighton Media Centre
Brighton, UK
2010
CRUNCH ART FAIR
19-21st November
Represented by The Museum of Everything
Hay-on-Wye, UK
OUTSIDE IN
19th June - 12th September
Group show at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Hastings, UK
LEAVING SOMEWHERE NEW
1st-30th June
Solo show at the Otter Gallery
Chichester, UK
THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING, EXHIBITION #2
16th May
Tate Modern
London, UK
AL BASTAKIYA ART FAIR DUBAI
15-21st March
Represented by The Running Horse gallery
Private exhibition for Contemporabia tour and Collectors
March 2010
Beirut, Lebanon
B.Y.O.A.
3rd Feb
Group show at X-Initiative
New York, USA
OUTSIDE IN
5th Jan - 6th Feb
Group show at Salisbury Arts Centre
Salisbury, UK
2009
DESIRES, NIGHTMARES, AND DREAMS
8th Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Group show at The Running Horse
Beirut, Lebanon
EXQUISITE BEINGS
20th-23rd November
Group show at Kotti-Shop
Berlin, Germany
LAMBETH OPEN
3rd/4th Oct.
www.lambethopen.com
OUTSIDE IN
August 4th-November 8th
Group show at Pallant House, Chichester, UK
(Award winner)
2008
STUMP 'Art From the Obsessive Mind'
featuring the work of Maurice Burns, Carlo Keshishian, Joe Wilson.
11th October - 1st November
at The Horse Hospital
London, UK
http://www.thehorsehospital.com/archives/000572.html
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