Charles Avery & Tom Morton: It Means It Means! – A Drawn Exhibition

Charles Avery & Tom Morton
It Means It Means! – A Drawn Exhibition
Museum of Art, Onomatopoeia and Pilar Corrias

Charles Avery, Untitled (It Means It Means; Bourgeois, Friedrich, LeWitt, Lichtenstein, Malevich, Morris, Polke, Stiehlitz) (194.1x249.2x7.9cm, pencil, ink, acrylic and gouache on paper), 2013

Charles Avery, Untitled (View of the MoAO from the direction of the Place de la Revolution with Hammons, Hepworth, Koons, Unknown Easter Island Artist) (252.4x408.5x10.2cm, pencil, ink, acrylic and gouache on paper), 2013

Charles Avery, Untitled (View of the MoAO from the direction of the Place de la Revolution with Hammons, Hepworth, Koons, Unknown Easter Island Artist) (252.4x408.5x10.2cm, pencil, ink, acrylic and gouache on paper), 2013 [Detail]

Charles Avery, Untitled (It Means It Means; Abramovic and Ulay, Goya, Hesse, Riley) (75x104.5x7cm, pencil, ink, acrylic and gouache on paper mounted on linen), 2013

Charles Avery, Untitled (It Means It Means; Gonzalez-Torres, Ray, Riley, Watteau) (75.9x99.9x7cm each, pencil, ink, acrylic and gouache on paper mounted on linen), 2013 [Diptych]

Charles Avery, Untitled (It Means It Means; Duchamp Etant Donnes) (169x228.1x7.9cm, pencil, ink, acrylic and gouache on paper), 2012 [Detail]

Charles Avery, Untitled (It Means It Means; Hiorns, Lozano, Ray) (122x189x8cm, pencil, ink, acrylic and gouache on paper), 2013 [Detail]

Charles Avery (b.1973, lives and works in London and Mull, UK) has had solo exhibitions at: GEM, Den Haag (forthcoming 2015); FRAC Ile-de-France Le Plateau Paris, Kunstverein Hanover, EX3 Florence (2010); Parasol Unit London, National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam (2008). He represented Scotland at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), and has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including “British Art Show 7” (2010-11), “Altermodern: Fourth Tate Triennial” (2009, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), and the 2007 Lyon and Athens Bienniales.

Tom Morton (b.1977) is a London-based curator, writer, and Contributing Editor of frieze. He was co-curator of the quintennial travelling exhibition “British Art Show 7” (2010-2011), and has worked as a curator at the Hayward Gallery (2008-11) and Cubitt Gallery, London (2006-7). He was co-curator of the 2008 Busan Biennale, and curated the exhibition “How to Endure” for the 2007 Athens Biennial. In late 2013, he will co-curate a survey of recent British and Polish art at the CSW Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw. Morton’s writing has appeared in numerous exhibition catalogues, and in journals including frieze, Frog, Bidoun, and Metropolis M.