Sunday, July 23, 2006

Spectacle Gallery invites you to the following Ayling & Conroy exhibition


Eyesore Sundae

Saturday + Sunday from 5th August – 3rd September [weekdays by appointment]
Opening times: 12 pm – 5 pm
Opening event: Saturday 5th August, 6pm onwards - Clown fancy dress + Karaoke

Dated happy hardcore music plays aloud in a room filled with 20,000 ball-pool balls, a room of doors, playing the Doors, a sweet shop, an a cowboy toilet, what can Ayling & Conroy’s artwork at Spectacle Gallery mean, if anything?

Ayling & Conroy present, ‘Eyesore Sundae’, at the Spectacle Gallery. Playfully advertised as the greatest art show ever, the exhibition makes a spectacle of itself to maintain the audiences attention, it strives to overwhelm the senses with a maze of themed rooms, sounds, smells, colourful lighting and visual delights, all of which are just a little too lurid to endure. Eyesore Sundae demonstrates Ayling & Conroy's preoccupation with entertaining, and showing the audience a good time. The success of the exhibition is primarily in the audiences ability to recognise and enjoy re-occurring themes, objects, and the adaptation of the language of entertainment.

Immersed within a fanciful landscape of borrowed imagery, the pair present a cut ‘n’ paste style re-modelling previous artworks and present new sculptural artworks that draw upon the aesthetics of the theme park. The 'theme park' gives the pair legitimacy to make almost what ever they want, similar perhaps, to the surrealists' dream.

Ayling & Conroy’s Previous exhibitions include: ‘Fight for Sore Eyes’, Sideshow, Nottingham, 2006, ‘Here Come the Serious Quirks’, Stand Assembly Studios, Nottingham, 2006, ‘History’, New Walk Museum, Leicester, 2006

Editors note :

Spectacle Gallery is an artist-led gallery space in Ladywood, Birmingham. The gallery opened in early 2005, and promotes the work of emerging artists. www.spectacle-gallery.co.uk


Ayling & Conroy live and work in Nottingham and have collaborated since 2005. Both are members of Stand Assembly Studios. They curate the My House Gallery program, and are currently co-coordinating ‘Critical Meet’, a festival of critique and discourse in Derby, Leicester and Nottingham.

www.aylingandconroy.net
www.myhousegallery.co.uk
www.criticalmeet.co.uk

38 Freeth Street
Ladywood
Birmingham
B16 0QP
spectacle_gallery@hotmail.co.uk
07773905445

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