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Installation view at bloombergSPACE, COMMA 09
August 2009
With an idiosyncratic drawing practice always at its heart, Andrew Mania’s work also encompasses
sculpture and installation. Rendered with faux naïve sophistication
in coloured pencil, Mania’s drawings depict the people
who populate his life and personal history. Figures are placed
in highly symbolic surroundings: lone in forests or surrounded
by specifically chosen sentimental objects in a front room.
Particular features such as the lips, a pattern on their clothing,
the colour of their eyes, are picked out, exaggerated, conveying
a sense of personal memory and all of the transformative Romanticism
that this is subject to. Mania extends this use of symbolic
combinations in his installations to create very personal and
evocative tangential association. He is a collector of curios,
placing his drawings in found wooden frames, painted and re-drawn
out in pencil, and combining them with photographs, ornaments,
and Old Master souvenir prints to make shrine-like homages:
private moments with which we can all nonetheless identify. |
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Installation view at bloombergSPACE, COMMA 09
August 2009 |
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Untitled
(profile boy), 2006
fabric, painted wood, coloured pencil
on veneer, drawn on frame
47 x 27 cm |
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Installation
Gogolin
Holbourne Museum, Bath
2007 |
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Untitled
(assemblage)
2006
wood, tape, found photograph
43 x 38 cm |
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David
II
2006
pencil on paper, framed
200 x 120 cm |
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Gavin
Forest
2006
pencil and coloured pencil on veneer, framed,
found picture, light, fabric, shelf
120 x 100 x 25 cm |
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Gavin
Forest
2006
pencil and coloured pencil on veneer, framed,
found picture, light, fabric, shelf
120 x 100 x 25 cm |
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Installation
Gogolin
Holbourne Museum, Bath
2007 |
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Installation
Gogolin
Holbourne Museum, Bath
2007 |
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