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Timothy Taylor is reopening his gallery this Spring with twice the showing space and an exciting new gallery programme intended to show new, young artists alongside some of the major names in contemporary art.

The beautiful former Beaux Arts Gallery, just behind Bond Street, from which Taylor has operated for the past four years, has been stripped back to turn the whole ground floor into a thrilling showing space that is a mixture of high ceilings and domestic scale.

The first exhibition in the new space will show the work of three of the stars from this year’s New Contemporaries – Athanasios Argianas – Ian Kiaer – Nick Laessing – in a show in which the three artists demonstrate a similar sensibility that operates on the edge of incident. Each evokes a fragile world that barely has a presence in reality. They use sculpture, painting and video in their most malleable way, establishing a subtle presence in the gallery that is the antithesis of the strident self-expression of their most recent forebears. This is not the art of the ‘Me Generation’ but a thoughtful response to a phenomenological world.

Argianas’s ephemeral gestures exist on the edges of sculpture. ‘I’m interested in mimicking, simulating already existing structures and that distance between types of realism, as a kind of tautology and the absurd rationality of such a process. Or it could all be some kind of special effects rejects..’

Kiaer’s miscellaneous relationships of small objects create eloquent tableaux in which unusual combinations of found objects, little sculptures and paintings are arranged together to evoke different narratives. Moving from wall to floor Kiaer’s flotsam and jetsam is loosely associated to make up something cohesive that is greater than the sum of its parts.

In Laessing’s sculpture, each creates a set of effects and meanings that morph towards the final moments of the cosmos or imply natural disaster. The viewer is suspended, waiting for something more to happen but it never does. An eternal prospect of profound experience constantly diverted into repetitive play.

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