The appropriately named Bookery Gallerie is an emporium in the truest sense of the word – an unsuspecting bookshop meets creative expression in a dynamic gallery-literature hybrid.
The vibrant space itself aims to provide a platform for local and emerging artists, and their latest venture features the renowned kinetic light artist Paul Friedlander.
Three Standing Stones – Paul Friedlander; image c/o the artist and Bookery Gallerie
Manipulating light beyond the functional limitations of illumination, Friedlander bends both colour and possibility through undulating waves that transform the conventional experience of light and sculpture.
As well as a series of dimensional pieces, multi-media film, photographs and projections combine to create a hypnotic journey through physics and the physical.
A ‘scientific’ artist trained as a physicist, Friedlander has always been interested in the relationship between limits and perspective, and how science can be used in tandem with art to seek out and portray the abstract, uncertain, impossible. Working with acrylic, video, digital software and animation, the ever-evolving and fluid nature of Friedlander’s work in many ways reflects our presence in the world and the Universe as a whole.
A Spaceship for the Imagination runs until 16 April at Bookery Gallerie, 20 Church Street, London, NW8 8EP.
