Ian Kiaer - Endnote, tooth. Endnote, yellow.

Ian Kiaer brings together several works he has been developing and adjusting over a period of six years. These include the installation Tooth House, ceiling (2014–20) which he first conceived for his solo show at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and has since modified through a process of revision and adaption in three other institutions (Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea; Kunsthalle Lingen; Heidelberger Kunstverein). The work takes its name from a provisional project by the Austrian architect Frederick Kiesler, which sought to introduce animal and biomorphic considerations to what he saw as an increasingly sterile modernism. Tooth House, ceiling is part model, drawing and architectural structure and continues to accrete stains, marks, tears and structural amendments with each iteration. It operates as a form of ceiling diagram, attentive and contingent to each space it occupies.

Kiaer often includes the term 'endnote' in his projects' titles. It suggests a form of writing that lies outside the main body of a text. These marginal notes operate as asides, qualifiers to what has already been said, and allows for a fragmented conflation of ideas, ordered in a way that is not immediately apparent. When this understanding is applied to Kiaer's work, a space for adjustment and revision opens. Works begin to converge in alternative relations between painting, inflatables, video and architectural structures. As the title of the exhibition implies, this particular show is also modulating varied registers of yellow, less for its chromatic value than for the way the works convey different qualities of material association with the colour.

For more information of the current show here.

The monograph "Ian Kiaer: Endnote, tooth" is now available. It includes texts by Fabrice Hergott, François Piron, Christiane Rekade and illustrations of works from 2010 to present day.

For more information, and details of how to purchase here.