Mark Titchner
25 June-17 August (2014)
Private View: 24 June
For the Gallery at Foyles, Titchner has created a unique single artwork – a monolith to the poetic resonance of the word.
Obliquely referencing the work of English painter, poet and printmaker William Blake (1757-1827), who was born in nearby Soho and spent time in the parish church of St Giles-in-the-Fields, known as the ‘Poets Church’ close to the modern junction of Charing cross Road and Tottenham Court Road, the Foyles piece features two dominant texts.
The text addresses the audience directly, yet simultaneously references awareness of its own presence through a ‘call and response’ structure to the text; the second phrase being a direct commentary on, or response to the first.
The result is a monument to the word, an imposing mirrored monolith that questions both the transmission, and the audience reception and interpretation of the written text.
Mark Titchner is represented by Vilma Gold, London.
