Riflemaker presents Christopher Bucklow at the BFI Building, London
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CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW
(b.1959 Manchester)
'Anima'
Monday 23 November - Saturday 19 December
"Anima and animus are the names given by Carl Jung to the undeveloped parts of the male and female psyche. In males, this unexpressed side has an inner feminine quality.
Often personified as a character in one’s dreams, Anima appears as mysterious, distant and beautiful. In my case this character appeared as the female alien in my Alien Fusion Dream painting which was published in the Riflemaker book for my 2004 exhibition ‘I Will Save Your Life’. I believe this character did in fact save my life by causing me stop my intellectual-curatorial career and make begin to create art.
Anima figures do not only occur in private dreams. Anima is present in the dreams of our culture - in literature, fashion and cinema as well as in the myths of our religions - as Eve and Mary, siren-like figures, matriarchal and queenly archetypes. In my new light photographs and in some of the accompanying paintings, I make use of the physical characteristics of the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer. Characteristics which have caused her to be promoted to a situation whereby Anima conditions and fantasies have been projected onto her.
Some of the images show this Anima figure with the artist Matthew Barney (who appeared in my first photographic series in 1994) holding up my paintings - like the saleroom porters who display lots for bidders during an auction. When the same character appears at the door in the voluminous dress (in my painting) she is in the character of Eustacia Vye, the mysterious, dark Anima-figure in Thomas Hardy’s 'Return of the Native'. I like the idea that a fictional character from Hardy and an artist such as MB, dressed as a goat-god, act as bearers of these newly created images. Paintings of paintings of paintings.
The internal Anima figure which I feel I personally bear acts much like a door. Anima opened the inner doors between my conscious and unconscious areas, but she is also, in some way, the door itself."
Christopher Bucklow, London 2009
Christopher Bucklow's photographic work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
(b.1959 Manchester)
'Anima'
Monday 23 November - Saturday 19 December
"Anima and animus are the names given by Carl Jung to the undeveloped parts of the male and female psyche. In males, this unexpressed side has an inner feminine quality.
Often personified as a character in one’s dreams, Anima appears as mysterious, distant and beautiful. In my case this character appeared as the female alien in my Alien Fusion Dream painting which was published in the Riflemaker book for my 2004 exhibition ‘I Will Save Your Life’. I believe this character did in fact save my life by causing me stop my intellectual-curatorial career and make begin to create art.
Anima figures do not only occur in private dreams. Anima is present in the dreams of our culture - in literature, fashion and cinema as well as in the myths of our religions - as Eve and Mary, siren-like figures, matriarchal and queenly archetypes. In my new light photographs and in some of the accompanying paintings, I make use of the physical characteristics of the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer. Characteristics which have caused her to be promoted to a situation whereby Anima conditions and fantasies have been projected onto her.
Some of the images show this Anima figure with the artist Matthew Barney (who appeared in my first photographic series in 1994) holding up my paintings - like the saleroom porters who display lots for bidders during an auction. When the same character appears at the door in the voluminous dress (in my painting) she is in the character of Eustacia Vye, the mysterious, dark Anima-figure in Thomas Hardy’s 'Return of the Native'. I like the idea that a fictional character from Hardy and an artist such as MB, dressed as a goat-god, act as bearers of these newly created images. Paintings of paintings of paintings.
The internal Anima figure which I feel I personally bear acts much like a door. Anima opened the inner doors between my conscious and unconscious areas, but she is also, in some way, the door itself."
Christopher Bucklow, London 2009
Christopher Bucklow's photographic work is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Anima and animus are the names given by Carl Jung to the undeveloped parts of the male and female psyche. In men, this unexpressed side has an inner feminine quality.
Often personified as a character in one's dreams, Anima appears as mysterious, distant and beautiful. In my case this character appeared as the female alien in my Alien Fusion Dream painting which was published in the Riflemaker book for my 2004 exhibition 'I Will Save Your Life'. I believe this character did in fact save my life by causing me stop my intellectual-curatorial career and begin to make art.
Anima figures do not only occur in private dreams. The figure is present in the dreams of our culture - in literature, fashion and cinema as well as in the myths of our religions - as Eve and as Mary, as well as siren-like figures, matriarchal and queenly archetypes. In my new light photographs, and in some of the accompanying paintings, I make use of the physical characteristics of the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer. Characteristics which have caused her to be promoted into a situation whereby Anima conditions and fantasies have been projected onto her.
Some of the images show this Anima figure with the artist Matthew Barney (who appeared in my first photographic series in 1998) holding up my paintings - like the saleroom porters who display lots for bidders during an auction. When the same character appears at the door in the voluminous dress she is in the character of Eustacia Vye, the mysterious dark Anima-figure in Thomas Hardy's 'Return of the Native'. I like the idea that a fictional character from Hardy and an artist such as MB, dressed as a goat-god, act as bearers of these newly created images. Paintings of paintings of paintings.
The internal Anima figure which I feel I personally bear acts much like a door. Anima opened the inner doors between my conscious and unconscious areas, but she is also, in some way, the door itself.
Christopher Bucklow, London 2009
Christopher Bucklow's photographs are represented in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Often personified as a character in one's dreams, Anima appears as mysterious, distant and beautiful. In my case this character appeared as the female alien in my Alien Fusion Dream painting which was published in the Riflemaker book for my 2004 exhibition 'I Will Save Your Life'. I believe this character did in fact save my life by causing me stop my intellectual-curatorial career and begin to make art.
Anima figures do not only occur in private dreams. The figure is present in the dreams of our culture - in literature, fashion and cinema as well as in the myths of our religions - as Eve and as Mary, as well as siren-like figures, matriarchal and queenly archetypes. In my new light photographs, and in some of the accompanying paintings, I make use of the physical characteristics of the German supermodel Claudia Schiffer. Characteristics which have caused her to be promoted into a situation whereby Anima conditions and fantasies have been projected onto her.
Some of the images show this Anima figure with the artist Matthew Barney (who appeared in my first photographic series in 1998) holding up my paintings - like the saleroom porters who display lots for bidders during an auction. When the same character appears at the door in the voluminous dress she is in the character of Eustacia Vye, the mysterious dark Anima-figure in Thomas Hardy's 'Return of the Native'. I like the idea that a fictional character from Hardy and an artist such as MB, dressed as a goat-god, act as bearers of these newly created images. Paintings of paintings of paintings.
The internal Anima figure which I feel I personally bear acts much like a door. Anima opened the inner doors between my conscious and unconscious areas, but she is also, in some way, the door itself.
Christopher Bucklow, London 2009
Christopher Bucklow's photographs are represented in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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 "Tetrarch" 2.43pm, 17th January, 2006 2006 (edition unique) cibachrome, dye-destruction print 100 x 145 cm |
 "Tetrarch" 10.07am, 11th January, 2003 2003 cibachrome, dye-destruction print (edition unique) 100 x 140 cm |
 "Magnetic Mirror", 4.11pm, 5th November, 2001 2001 (edition unique) cibachrome, dye-destruction print 40 x 30 cm |
 "Guest" 8.01am, 15th August, 2005 2005 (edition unique) cibachrome, dye-destruction print 40 x 30 cm |
Bucklow's vast projections of the mythified self make him exceed the bounds of identity. He has wedded the world of Ovid with its physical shifts and transformations with the great twentieth-century mythology of nuclear physics: the modern alchemy.
Prof David Alan Mellor. Essay in 'Christopher Bucklow', Blindspot Publications, N.Y. forthcoming, 2004
Christopher Bucklow is one of the most innovative artists working in Europe today.
Michael Auping in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Journal, 1998
Prof David Alan Mellor. Essay in 'Christopher Bucklow', Blindspot Publications, N.Y. forthcoming, 2004
Christopher Bucklow is one of the most innovative artists working in Europe today.
Michael Auping in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Journal, 1998
Christopher Bucklow - studio installation - February 2014
each painting: oil on canvas, 213 x 182 cm (2014)
each painting: oil on canvas, 213 x 182 cm (2014)
Portrait of Eustacia Vye oil on canvas 122 x 91 cm (2014)
from 'The Return of the Native' by Thomas Hardy
from 'The Return of the Native' by Thomas Hardy
Christopher Bucklow (b1957 Manchester, England) is best known for his paintings and his 'Guest' light-photographs (1993 onwards). In these new canvases the 'Guests' portrayed previously have descended the staircase into the artist's studio.
Bucklow is represented in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Bucklow is represented in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW (b. 1957 Manchester, England)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 - Tetrarchs, Danziger Projects, New York
2010 - Anima, Riflemaker, London
2009 - Christopher Bucklow, Emon/Mssohkan, Tokyo
2008 - Tetrarchs, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
2007 - Christopher Bucklow, Mssohkan Gallery, Kobe, Japan
2006 - Christopher Bucklow, Artereal, Sydney
2006 - Christopher Bucklow, Riflemaker, London
2005 - Christopher Bucklow, Hug, Amsterdam
2004 - I Will Save Your Life, Riflemaker, London
2004 - If This be Not I, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
2003 - Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva
2002 - Guests and Tetrarchs, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
2002 - Angeli Rose' Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
2001 - 'Christopher Bucklow: Guests and Tetrarchs', The Photographers' Gallery, London
2000 - Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta
1999 - 'The Mancunian Heresy', Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London
1999 - 'Canopic Fusion Reactor', St Ives International
1998 - 'fju:3an, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
1990 - 'Guest', Mead Gallery, University of Warwick
1997 - 'Christopher Bucklow' Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
1996 - 'Reactor', Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
1995 - 'Guest', Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1995 - 'The Beauty of the World', Independent Art Space, London
1994 - 'Jerusalem', The Herzilya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Edwynn Houk, New York
2009 - Voodoo, Riflemaker, London
2007 - The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London
2006 - Drawings from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006 - Drawing Inspiration, Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
2006 - Fantasie und Illusion, Frankfurt Photography Forum
2005 - Paintings: gallery artists, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2005 - Blake & Sons, University of Cork, Ireland
2004 - 'I Will Save Your Life' Christopher Bucklow & William Blake, Riflemaker, London
2004 - 'After Life' The Bowes Museum
2003 - 'Recycling Lucifer's Fall' Houldsworth Gallery, London
2002 - 'Jerwood Drawing Prize' Jerwood Space, London
2002 - 'Metamorphing', The Science Museum, London
2002 - 'Artists of Fame and Promise' 14 Wharf Road, London
2002 - Bucklow, Fricke, Turrell, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
2002 - 'Sacred Century', Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2002 - 'Escape from the Vault', Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
2001 - Visionaire's Exquisite Corpse, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001 - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2001 - Best Of Visionaire, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
2000 - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2000 - 'Little Angels' , Houldsworth, London
1999 - 'Underexposed', Stockholm Subway, Sweden
1999 - 'Office of Misplaced Events' Lotta Hammer, London
1999 - 'Story/Line', Katonah Museum of Art, New York
1998 - 'Every Other Day', First Draft, Sydney, Australia
1998 - Paraphotography, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, Virginia
1998 - 'Hope', Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida
1998 - 'Light as Substance', Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery, California
1998 - Christopher Bucklow & Andres Serrano, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
1997 - 'Object and Abstraction', Museum of Modern Art, New York
1997 - 'Picturing Modernity', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1997 - 'In Visible Light', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1996 - 'Under the Sun', Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1996 - 'Fool's Rain', I.C.A., London
1996 - 'The Inner Eye', Manchester City Art Gallery
1996 - Departmental display , Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1996 - 'Prospect '96', Frankfurt Kunstverein, Germany
1996 - 'A Scattering Matrix', Richard heller Galery, Santa Monica
1996 - 'The Imaginary Real', Museum of Fine Art, Houston
1996 - 'Recent Acquisitions', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1995 - 'Silhouettes', (with Elliott Puckette & Adam Fuss) Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
1995 - 'Recent Acquisitions', Museum of Modern Art, New York
1995 - 'Content in Today's Photography', Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut
1995 - Acquisitions, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1995 - 'The Abstract Urge' Friends of Photography, San Francisco
1995 - 'Recent Acquisitions' The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1994 - 'Bucklow, Crewdson, Fuss, Sugimoto', Jim Schmidt Gallery, St Louis
1994 - 'Without Walls', Face Magazine, May issue, London
1994 - 'After Art', Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
1994 - 'The Israel Sculpture Biennale', En Hod, Israel
1993 - 'Wonderful Life', Lisson Gallery, London
1993 - 'Bucklow, Rovner, Henle, Barth', Wooster Gardens, New York
1992 - 'Inside a Microcosm', Laure Genillard Gallery, London
Selected WRITINGS and PAPERS by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW
2007 - What is in the Dwat - The Universe of Philip Guston's Last Decade
2007 - Wordsworth Trust Press
2006 - Writing Art History - Reflections of a Shapeshifter, Routledge, New York
2005 - This Is Personal - Blake and Mental Fight, University of Cork Press
2003 - ' Psychocosm' Lecture at conference, Science Museum, London
2000 - 'Speculations on the art of Rick Chapman' Birdman Press, San Francisco
1998 - 'William Blake and The Sea of Time and Space', SOF Magazine, England
1997 - 'O Felix Culpa - Metaphors of Reintegration'. Essay in catalogue to Robert Davies
1997 - Exhibition, Arquivo, Lisbon, Portugal
1996 - 'Una vesta di Colore'. Essay in catalogue to Simon Callery Exhibition, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
1995 - 'The Beauty of the World', Catalogue Essay to Independent Art Space exhibition, London
1995 - ' Thought Forms', Essay in catalogue to Susan derges Exhibition, Arnolfini, Bristol
1995 - 'Launching Points to the Realm of Mind', Essay in catalogue to Edward Chell Exhibition, Anthony Wilkinson gallery, London
1995 - 'Guest', Catalogue to Jeffrey Fraenkel Gallery exhibition, San Francisco
1995 - 'Anti Science' Letter to Michael Read, See Magazine, San Francisco
1994 - 'Human Nature' Essay in catalogue to Mark Francis Exhibition, Maureen Paley, Interim Art, London
1994 - 'Footnotes to an Unwritten Text', essay in catalogue to exhibition, Ex Lanifacio Bona Carignano, Turin, Italy
1993 - ' The Tailor Patched', Essay in catalogue to 'Between Sun and Earth', The Photographers' Gallery, London
1991 - 'Postmodern Theories of Modernism', Lecture at conference at the Getty Center' Los Angeles
1989 - 'Instantaneity and Transience', essay in 'British Photography - the Fine Art Tradition', Cambridge University Press
1988 - 'Construction and Appropriation', essay in 'The Art of Photography', Yale University Press
MONOGRAPHS
2003 - Christopher Bucklow: Drawings. British Museum, London. Essays by Marina Warner, Roger Malbert, and interview with Adam Phillips
2004 - Christopher Bucklow: Photographs, Blindspot Publications, New York. Essays by Maria Morrris Hambourg and Prof David Alan Mellor
RESIDENCIES
2004 - The Centre for Studies in British Romantism, Grasmere
2002 - Artist in Residence , The British Museum, London
1991 - Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW works in PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Phoenix Art Museum
Henry Art Museum, Seattle
The British Council, Israel
Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth
Dallas Museum of Art
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
University of Texas, Dallas
Honolulu Museum of Art
Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
High Museum, Atlanta
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Akron Arts Museum
Cleveland Museum of Arts
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Miami Art Museum