Scott Myles – Potential for a Wish (as yet unmade)

Per la mostra Myles ha realizzato un dipinto site specific che taglia verticalmente lo spazio, una nuova opera su carta di grandi dimensioni ed un’edizione serigrafica intitolata Potential for a Wish (as yet unmade).

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Mercoledì 22 febbraio 2023, alle ore 18.00, Quartz Studio è lieto di presentare la terza personale torinese dell’artista scozzese Scott Myles (Dundee, UK, 1975). Per la mostra Myles ha realizzato un dipinto site specific che taglia verticalmente lo spazio, una nuova opera su carta di grandi dimensioni ed un’edizione serigrafica intitolata Potential for a Wish (as yet unmade).

Il dipinto è frutto della sovrapposizione di sei tele. L’opera modulare nasce dall’immaginazione dell’artista. Chi guarda si trova davanti un’immagine evocativa ed insolitamente semplice, trasposta dalla mano dell’artista in pittura ad olio. Il motivo di Myles, bloccato da solidi rettangoli color verdazzurro, ricorda materiali intrecciati tipo funi o cavi, che a loro volta evocano sia elementi celebrativi, come gli alberi di maggio, sia qualcosa di più teso e sinistro.

Scott Myles (Dundee, Regno Unito, 1975) è un artista scozzese che vive a Glasgow. Il suo lavoro, dalla forte connotazione gestuale, spazia tra scultura, pittura, arte grafica, libri d’arte, fotografia e progetti performativi, in una sorta di riattivazione delle idee legate al valore dell’arte e della realtà sociale tramite il recupero di codici già affermati. Nel loro insieme, le sue opere rappresentano una complessa rete di risposte alle infrastrutture sociali e fisiche ed esaminano il soggetto nel loro ambiente. I suoi lavori sono stati protagonisti di svariate personali: Swim Club, Dallas, US (2022); Penthouse, Margate, Regno Unito (2021); Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germania (2019, 2015 e 2012); The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Regno Unito (2017, 2014 e 2007); Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Giappone (2016); Maison Lafayette (in collaborazione con la Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Parigi, Francia (2014); Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India (2014); Dundee Contemporary Arts, Regno Unito (2012), galleria Sonia Rosso, Torino, Italia (2006 e 2003) e Kunsthalle Zurich, Svizzera (2005). Sono stati inoltre esposti all’interno di varie collettive: Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, Regno Unito (2022); Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Regno Unito (2019); Luhring Augustine, New York, USA (2017); The Menil Collection, Houston, USA (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2015); Tate Liverpool, Regno Unito (2011); Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germania (2008); Tate Britain e Tate Modern, Londra, Regno Unito (2006) e Secession, Vienna, Austria (2003). E sono presenti in numerose collezioni pubbliche e private fra cui: Tate Gallery, Londra; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The British Council Collection, Londra; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edimburgo e The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA. Myles ha vinto due Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowships al Virginia Museum of History & Culture di Richmond (2016 e 2019) ed è rappresentato dal Modern Institute di Glasgow, Regno Unito, dalla Meyer Riegger Galerie di Berlino/Karlsruhe, Germania, e dalla Breeder Gallery di Atene, Grecia.

Quartz Studio ringrazia l’artista, Matthew Rich, Sonia Rosso, The Modern Institute di Glasgow e Meyer Riegger di Berlino/Karlsruhe. La mostra si potrà visitare su appuntamento dal 22 febbraio al 22 aprile 2023.

On Wednesday, February 22, 2023, at 6:00 pm, Quartz Studio is pleased to present the third solo exhibition in Turin by the Scottish artist Scott Myles (Dundee, UK, 1975). For the show, the artist conceived a site-specific painting cutting vertically through the space, a new large-scale work on paper, and a screenprint edition entitled Potential for a Wish (as yet unmade).

Myles’ painting is assembled from six individual stretched canvases. The modular work is drawn from the artists imagination. Viewers are confronted by an evocative and strangely simple image transposed by the artist’s hand in oil paint. Myles’ motif, held in place by tight blueish-green rectangles, suggests plaited materials, such as rope or wire. These equally evoke something celebratory, like maypoles, or something more taut and sinister.

Scott Myles (Dundee, UK, 1975) is a Scottish artist based in Glasgow, UK. His practice is strongly gestural and consists of sculpture, painting, printmaking, artist’s books, photography and performance-based projects, a kind of reactivation of ideas relating to the value of art and social reality by means of reusing already established codes. As a whole, his artworks constitute a complex network of responses to social and physical infrastructures, and examine the subject in their own environment. Scott Myles’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Swim Club, Dallas, US (2022); Penthouse, Margate, UK (2021); Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany (2019, 2015 and 2012); The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (2017, 2014 and 2007); Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2016); Maison Lafayette (in collaboration with Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France (2014); Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India (2014); Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK (2012), Sonia Rosso Gallery, Turin, Italy (2006, 2003) and Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2005). His work has also been featured in group shows at Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, UK (2022); the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK (2019); Luhring Augustine, NY, US (2017); The Menil Collection, Houston, US (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US (2015); Tate Liverpool, UK (2011); Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (2008); Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London, UK (2006) and Secession, Vienna, Austria (2003). Myles’s works are held in many private and public collections, including: Tate Gallery, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The British Council Collection, London; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US. Myles was awarded two Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowships at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Richmond (2016 and 2019). The artist is represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Berlin/Karlsruhe, Germany, and The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece.

Quartz Studio would like to thank the artist, Matthew Rich, Sonia Rosso, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK and Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe, Germany. The exhibition will be open from February 22, 2023, to April 22, 2023, by appointment.

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Courtesy: Studio Scott Myles, 2023