12-6pm Tue, 19th Jan 2008 - 2nd Mar 2008
Spike Island
133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX
http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/

Spike Island is pleased to present new work by acclaimed artist, David Mackintosh. Me, You, the Cosmos and Other People is the most significant exhibition of Mackintosh?s work staged to date, and will present newly commissioned drawings, installation and stop motion animation together with a selection of Mackintosh's recent works. For more than a decade, David Mackintosh's work has been characterised by the strict use of black gouache and the creation of a visual world populated by the darkest elements of human behaviour and equally dark humour. Mackintosh's recent work has undergone an intense period of both formal and psychological expansion, introducing abstract forms and a carefully chosen new palette of red, green and yellow to his distinctive black drawings. Me, You, the Cosmos and Other People, curated by Simon Morrissey, will emphasis these developments and will present two newly commissioned works in which Mackintosh explores expanding drawing beyond the page. A new three dimension structure of thin vertical and horizontal oak bars will transform a new body of drawings on coloured paper into a space reminiscent of a elegant washing line, its informality counter-pointed by the precision of the structure and the subtle play of images.

Spike Island is a national centre for the production and exhibition of contemporary art.

Located in Bristol’s historic harbourside in the Cumberland Basin, Spike Island offers excellent studios as well as project and exhibition space for the making and showing of ambitious new work. The organisation has established itself as a national centre for the research and development of contemporary visual arts. Spike Island emerged from an artist run initiative developed in the late 70’s, Bristol Art Space. Whilst it is no longer ‘artist run’ the values of support to artists and those developing their career within the contemporary visual arts remains a high priority. Those working within the building have a vital role to play within the development of policy, decision making and management.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008