An Image of Truth for Foyles
London’s new Foyles bookshop flagship is set to unveil its first gallery exhibition next week, showing a single artwork by artist Mark Titchner.
Source: Credit the Artist and Vilma Gold, London.
Mark Titchner, An Image of Truth, 2014
The text-based work is inspired by William Blake (something of a trend it seems – the printmaker and poet also inspired the Illuminations show opening this week ), who was born in Soho, just streets away from the new Foyles site.
Described by Foyles as a ‘monument to the word’, Titchner’s work – entitled An Image of Truth – takes the form of a mirrored monolith.
Colin Ledwith of Futurecity, curator of The Gallery at Foyles, ‘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.
‘[Titchner’s] new site-specific artwork for Foyles directly relates to the rich cultural history of the building.’
Source: David Butler
Foyles
The Gallery space was designed by consultancy lustedgreen, which worked with architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.
Titchner’s piece will be on show from 25 June – 17 August at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, London, W2
If the brief was to refresh a public library then 10 out of 10, brief fulfilled.
It seems to me to be a disappointingly bog standard layout lacking any creativity, verve or imagination.
A missed opportunity.