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ARTISTS / GILES RYDER

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Imagine a museum display from another planet, or imagine what the early seventies thought the future of art would look like and now imagine them getting it right. Ryder's grey matter must be like a black hole sucking in everything from Donald Judd to 2001: A Space Oddyssey; from Dan Flavin to disco to astrophysics and beyond. What we see is the event horizon of Giles Ryder's singular mind ... Ultra sleek abstract paintings on curled aluminium hang next to black perspex mirrors that reflect an alternate, darker world ... Neon words and shapes hover above their reflections on tilted perspex canvases. The sleek surfaces endlessly reflect the neon aura that fills the room and the effect is spacey, lurid and strangely reverential (who will ascend the stage?). The objects Ryder creates are not quite like other things in that they do not re-present the world (in the way for example that images do) but they seem to be somehow new, inchoate and as yet unclassified. Certainly one can trace artistic influences of minimalism but this is not a minimal show, there seems to be very little evidence of subtraction or retrogression from a large unruly state to a purity of form. Rather this seems a new state of things, additional to the world. The objects seem newly formed from primal matter. They are propositional rather than analogous and seem, like Frankenstein's monster, to question what they are, and who they serve.

Excerpt from Darkness Matters, exhibition review of Giles Ryder 'Dark Matter', John Buckley Gallery, by Tony Lloyd 2008

Ryder was the winner of the 2008 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship and the 2006 RIPE: Art & Australia and ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award. Recent solo shows include Transfutures at Ryan Renshaw Gallery; Dark Matter and GR06 at John Buckley Gallery; The Speed of Night at BLOCKPROJECTS; Lightworks at George Petelin Gallery; and Some Kind of Electric and Metallic both at Peloton, where he is a founding director. Recent group exhibitions include Disco Baroque at U.T.S Gallery; Premonitions at MUMA; NEW06, at ACCA; My eyes keep me in trouble, at SCA Gallery; and Finalist in the 2006 & 2007 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace.

Exhibitions

Transformative (02.06.2005 to 18.06.2005)

Metallic (14.04.2005 to 30.04.2005)

Works