Image courtesy of artist and Off the Kerb Gallery
Image Courtesy of artist and Off the Kerb Gallery
This latest exhibition at Off the Kerb Gallery is the first solo show for artist Daniel Agdag.
The title of the show adeptly
describes the thread of each of these five intricately made works. As you walk
into the gallery, you could mistakenly have entered a curiosity shop blended
with the fantasia of writer Ronald Dahl and the surrealism of director Tim
Burton.
At first greeted by the most
robust and largest of the works is Amalgamated,
a setting of an historical building site with warped nuances only viewed after
further investigation. It looks to be a scene from a New York street or busy
metropolis. All complete with a W class tram morphed with American cable cars.
Created with cardboard that has been manipulated, rolled, flatten, cut and
moulded. The attention to detail is spectacular and to think such a heavy laded
piece could be light in weight boggles the mind. The architecture of the work
is brilliantly composed and obviously researched.
The other works stand in
glass domes presented on plinths pertaining to museum kept artefacts of a distant
era. The
Wait is the most delicate of the pieces, which resembles an old hot air
balloon warped slightly with the experimental makings of a machine. The glass
dome protects this prototype with its transparent and delicate balloon as
though it will deflate at any given moment if an insect would land on its
surface.
These small sets expose the viewer
to the artists imagined industrial estate. Far from the modern unsavoury
factories and large corrugated sheds. A small wonderland of obscurities.
Until 9th of
November
