Final Two Days of Exhibition Wed 2nd November + Thurs 3rd November 2 - 7pm
In his new exhibition ‘Living Truthfully in Imaginary Situations’ Hopgood includes both retrospective and new, previously unseen works. Set in a Victorian Railway Archway in Kings Cross, the true significance of his individual works as both art and as important historical artefacts begin to emerge. These avant-garde Memento Mori reference the nouveux riche and the glitterati, Las Vegas and Dubai as much as Essex and Mayfair, and are as appropriate to the home, hotel and office as to the gallery and the shop. Their neutral, stereotypical and archetypal iconography are foils which present the viewer with a kind of mirror of the self. It is as if these animate, glowing objects are genies that once engaged with, seem to have already granted one’s hearts desires. Designed then, to transport the object and the self into a kind of hypnagogic and delirious hyper-reality of aspiration.
For more Details contact mw@minnieweisz.co.uk carlhopgood@mac.com
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