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Sam Lock
Carta, Milan, 2 - 31 March 2023

Sam Lock: Carta

Past exhibition
  • Works on Canvas
  • Smaller Works
  • Works on Paper
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  • At the heart of Sam Lock’s new exhibition Carta is paper. Salvaged from a damaged collection of discarded artbooks, this...

    At the heart of Sam Lock’s new exhibition Carta is paper. Salvaged from a damaged collection of discarded artbooks, this series of works combines old pages pasted onto canvas, with interventions and marks made by the artist. The works continue Lock’s explorations into ideas of presence and absence, history and memory, time and repetition following his solo exhibition in London in October 2022. This exhibition, opening on the 2nd March, will also mark the launch of Cadogan’s new gallery space in Milan. 

     

    The pages on canvas create a grid like pattern, a linear suggestiveness to the canvas space that we, the viewer, try and read. There is a partial uniformity of mark here, but at the same time each one is different. The apparent deliberateness is an illusion, each one created entirely intuitively. The marks are signposts, leading in and out of the painting - roads to nowhere, repetitions and isolations.

  • Works on Canvas

    Sam Lock, The Lovers, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sam Lock, Napoleon on the Bellepheron, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Copyright 1934  mixed media on canvas  120cm x 120cm (47" x 47") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sam Lock, Adoration of the Kings, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    The Bath of Psyche  mixed media on canvas  150cm x 150cm (59" x 59") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sam Lock, The Tailor, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sam Lock, Benedicte, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    The Last of England  mixed media on canvas  150cm x 150cm (59" x 59") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sam Lock, Monna Pamona, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Souvenir d'Italie  mixed media on canvas  150cm x 150cm (59" x 59") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    The Angelus  mixed media on canvas  150cm x 150cm (59" x 59") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sam Lock, Captive Andromache, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Hyphen  mixed media on canvas  30cm x 30cm (12" x 12") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Stripe Glimpse Corner  mixed media on canvas  30cm x 30cm (12" x 12") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    The Swing  mixed media on canvas  30cm x 30cm (12" x 12") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    The Lovers
    mixed media on canvas
    150cm x 150cm (59" x 59")
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  • ‘I prefer the tone of uncertainty - it’s like an underlying principle for me... I never have an idea of how a work will end, only how it starts… Ambiguity can act as an invitation to fill the gaps, to author meanings or to steer the interpretation of a painting.’
  • Smaller Works

    Blue Marks I  mixed media on board  29cm x 24cm (11" x 9") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sam Lock, Blue Marks II, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Blue Marks III  mixed media on board  29cm x 24cm (11" x 9") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Blue Marks IV  mixed media on board  29cm x 24cm (11" x 9") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Blue Marks V  mixed media on board  29cm x 24cm (11" x 9") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Blue Marks VI  mixed media on board  29cm x 24cm (11" x 9") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sam Lock, Blue Marks VII, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Blue Marks I
    mixed media on board
    29cm x 24cm (11" x 9")
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  • The surface of the works is both solid and broken. The surface is lacquered and sealed, but tension is introduced...

    The surface of the works is both solid and broken. The surface is lacquered and sealed, but tension is introduced by the ripped edges of the paper sheets, defining the grid and its meeting points. These dualities and uncertainties direct the voice of the works. The paper itself is ‘discoloured with yesterdays’, Lock’s mark making creating an overlapping of past and present.

     

    Each painting gets its title from traces of text still existing as minute details on the paper itself, referring to images and illustrations that have since faded. The marks made are prompts to the inherent voice of the paper itself, incorporating this language of memory into the artwork. The artwork and the artist are connected in this way to the past painters and paintings in art history referenced by the pages but also to the artist’s previous works through this theme. 

     
  • Works on Paper

    4 Sides  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides (1)  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides (2)  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides (3)  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides (4)  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides (5)  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides (6)  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sam Lock, 4 Sides (7), 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Sam Lock, 4 Sides (8), 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides (9)  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides (10)  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides (11)  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides (12)  mixed media on paper  35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11") (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    4 Sides
    mixed media on paper
    35.5cm x 27cm (14" x 11")
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  • Installation Shots

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