DAVID BURROWS
15 JANUARY - 23 FEBRUARY 2002

f a projects presents David Burrows’ first UK solo show

David Burrows has been an important figure in the London art scene over the last decade, often working collaboratively with other artists such as DJ Simpson, Bob and Roberta Smith on Le Ecole de Burrows et Bob Smith and also as a member of BANK. He gained particular acclaim for his solo work, both nationally and internationally, at the time of his inclusion in Becks Futures 2 at the ICA earlier this year; an exhibition profiling outstanding and significant artists from the British art scene which travelled to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and Sotheby's, New York. For this, his first solo show in the UK, he creates a major mixed media installation in the main gallery space.

Burrows sets up narrative scenes within installations which are meticulously cut from foam and rubber. The violence of the scenes, whether a mountainside crash or an accident involving a pizza delivery boy, stands at odds with the exuberant pop-aesthetic of the works themselves, which both heightens and neutralises the dramas depicted. Alongside the sculptural installations, Burrows exhibits photographic representations of other fabricated events, introducing a further level of artifice. Behind the humour and cartoon-influences of the work, there are other concerns at play. Burrows’ work declares his interest in Carl Andre and Post-Minimalist scatter pieces, but he combines and subverts this fiercely academic heritage with his own brand of the surrealist anti-academic.

Burrows has exhibited extensively internationally, most recently at the Tirana Biennale and Galerie Praz-Dellavallade, Paris. Other exhibitions include Kunstverein, Dusseldorf; Courtauld Institute, London; W139 Amsterdam and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow..