It’s All In The Perspective At Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill

Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill, the official hotel partner of the Frieze Art Fair, is proud to present Perspectives, the second exhibition that it has developed in partnership with the leading cultural consultancy Candlestar. Perspectives explores ideas of expectation and illusion, with each of the works featured not quite as it first appears.

Exhibited in the lobby of the hotel, this exhibition portrays graphic images that, under close scrutiny appear, to shift and flip; a collection of boxes that becomes a cabinet of curiosities; and an angel turns into a meticulously made replica of a bombed and beaten city. Apparently abstract paintings reveal themselves as photographs of toxic lakes, rendered via a disorientating aerial perspective, while seemingly straightforward copies of works by Piranesi turn out to be a meticulous digital collage of hundreds of photographs.

Perspectives features five highly distinctive artists – two photographers, Emily Allchurch and David Maisel and two painters Patrick Hughes and Gerry Judah, as well as, the Prague-based Iranian installation artist Yassi Golshani. Each of these fastidious, exacting artists painstakingly constructs a world and then delights in breaking the illusion – either literally, as in the paintings of Gerry Judah where tiny precise cities are built up and then broken down on the canvas, or more subversively, as in Emily Allchurch’s Urban Chiaroscuro, where surveillance cameras and mirrors, modern signs and graffiti, and other contemporary details are positioned within what is apparently an 18th century etching.

All of the works featured in Perspectives are for sale and the exhibition will be hung from 15 March until the beginning of July 2010.

Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill has been the official hotel partner of Frieze Art Fair since 2008.