[stretching an elastic band until it snaps, spray-paint, cardboard, elastic band, 2007]

Charlie Sofo’s studio show at ANCA Dickson (SOME THING LIKE A HUMAN) opens on Wednesday night at 6.00pm, and will be open for the next four days from 12.00 to 5.00pm. ArtWranglers is happy to email the list of works and prices on request. Please contact Willa if you want to see the show outside normal hours.

[tooth-pick, paper, ink, toothpick, 2007]

With this body of work Sofo continues with the essential ingredients of his art. A constant dimension of all of his work over the past three years has been a kind of revelation and celebration of its processes – an aesthetic of discovery whereby the processes of observing, conceiving, making, ordering, and presenting continue until the work reaches a definitive state of completion. Most often his materials determine the form of the work, and sometimes the materials are so ephemeral the completion of the work is a forecast of its own destruction. With his fascination for what evolves in front of his eyes, he neither predicts the final character of the work, nor is longevity one of his criteria. The primary pleasure for Sofo is in the discovery of the final form through its processes, and only secondarily whether the outcome is something which will appeal to others. There is also we suspect a kind of perverse pleasure in the (human) body at play. We imagine him looking at his hands and asking himself: “what have I got to work with today? Ah! that looks interesting!” and so the process begins which results in a perfect circle of finger-grease, (paper, finger oil + grime), number 5. in this exhibition.

You can see what Charlie has to say about it all on the previous post.

See all the works in the show in the Gallery at Charlie’s name in the sidebar ->