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’So Dance With Me’, ’True’ and ’Love Me or Fuck Me but don’t do both’ in situ at Flowers East
’So Dance With Me’, ’True’ and ’Love Me or Fuck Me but don’t do both’ in situ at Flowers East
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Taking his cue from modernists, minimalists and monumentalists alike, London-based artist Cedric Christie's latest show, Love Me or Fuck Me but don't do both, is an elegant unlacing of esoteric artistic values - with a generous dollop of irony to boot.

Decking out the whitewashed surrounds of London’s Flowers East gallery with his large-scale, wall-based sculptural work until the middle of November, Christie’s exhibition straddles the boundary between high-art and commodity with expert dexterity.

Practicing as a welder prior to his art world calling, Christie puts his hands-on pedigree to good use for the show, employing found objects ranging from plastic pipes to snooker balls, and brickwork to scraps.

Fascinated by the fluid boundary between art and the ordinary, Christie’s compacted pink oldsmobile - transformed into a wall mounted ‘painting’ - is an articulate exposition of Christie’s off-kilter artistic agenda.

All at once a two-dimensional artwork and a worthless addition to the scrapheap, Christie subverts the notion of the artist as alchemist with this gentle poke at overwrought modernist values.

The ‘Pink Painting’ - when taken with the swooping snooker ball-filled curves of Christie’s industrial sculpture ‘Phoenix’, and the hanging banality of his gas-station-style light box advertisements - encapsulates Christie’s somewhat irreverent approach to his art.

Subtle, funny and erudite - despite his valiant efforts to ‘bring down’ high art - Christie’s latest outing can’t help but lodge his pin even more firmly into the art world map.

An in-situ shot of ’Pink Painting’,

An in-situ shot of ’Pink Painting’, Christie’s subversive flattened car

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Christie’s ’Light Boxes’ installation finds inspiration from Gas station-style light box adverts

Christie’s ’Light Boxes’ installation finds inspiration from Gas station-style light box adverts

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An in-situ shot of Christie’s ’Light Boxes’

An in-situ shot of Christie’s ’Light Boxes’ alongside his snooker ball-filled sculpture, ’Phoenix’

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A side-on take of ’Pink Paintings’

A side-on take of ’Pink Paintings’ distinctly flattened dimensions

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Christie’s sculptures subvert their minimalistic roots

Brightly coloured and slightly garish, Christie’s sculptures subvert their minimalistic roots

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A ’Pink Painting’ close-up

A ’Pink Painting’ close-up

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modernist configurations Christie plays elegantly with artistic convention

Placing man-made found objects in his distinct, modernist configurations Christie plays elegantly with artistic convention

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A side view of Phoenix’s swooping curves

A side view of Phoenix’s swooping curves

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An installation shot of ’Dictionary’ and ’Conflict’

An installation shot of ’Dictionary’ and ’Conflict’

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’Shh it’s Yellow Don’t Tell Red’ and ’Shh it’s Orange Don’t Tell White’

’Shh it’s Yellow Don’t Tell Red’ and ’Shh it’s Orange Don’t Tell White’

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Love Me or Fuck Me but don’t do both

Love Me or Fuck Me but don’t do both

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Christie’s plumbing pipe sculptures

Phoenix installed alongside a few of Christie’s plumbing pipe sculptures

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, Christie artfully conceals the distinctly playful undertones of his work

Controlled and constricted, Christie artfully conceals the distinctly playful undertones of his work

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Christie’s welding-inspired, glitter-coated Cross

Christie’s welding-inspired, glitter-coated Cross, from 2009

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