IAN KIAER

"Kiaer often draws from the history of landscape painting and from models of utopian and radical architecture, revealing ways in which they impact on the paradigms of aesthetic contemplation. Vision ? the changing models of seeing and being seen, and the underlying philosophical and ideological models of self-imagining and control ? could be said to permeate all of Kiaer?s work, subtly informing his choice of subject matter and installation."
Christian Rattemeyer, Parkett, 2007

Alison Jacques Gallery, London is pleased to announce a solo show of new work by British artist Ian Kiaer. In this exhibition Kiaer will present an installation relating to his ongoing research into the Ulchiro market district in Seoul, South Korea. Kiaer creates complex and fragile installations, typically on a miniature scale, where he groups architectural models, untouched or slightly modified found objects and two-dimensional work to create fragmented narratives.