Mayfair's Ronchini Gallery presents 'The Uncanny', featuring the work of young artists Adeline de Monseignat and Berndnaut Smilde and curated by James Putman
(Image credit: Ronchini Gallery)
Jeepers creepers! Ronchini Gallery in London opens the year with ‘The Uncanny’, where curator James Putman tapped emerging artists Adeline de Monseignat and Berndnaut Smilde for the spine-tingling, hair-raising exhibition.
The artists, based in London and Amsterdam respectively, turned to Sigmund Freud’s seminal essay of the same name for inspiration. The enfant terrible of psychoanalysis pioneered the uncanny as a conflicting sense of familiarity and foreignness felt at the same time. To that end, the Dutch artists have quite appropriately taken wildly differing approaches in their examination of the Freudian concept.
De Monseignat’s works with tactile, organic materials like fur to create installations that explore the illusive fugue between life and death. Her vexing ‘creaptures’ (creatures-cum-sculptures) encased in flawless glass orbs are seemingly trapped in limbo at first. Upon an admittedly trepid approach to the objects for closer inspect
The Uncanny: Adeline de Monseignat and Berndnaut Smilde
16 January – 16 February &#;13
London
Ronchini Gallery London presents The Uncanny featuring new works by two young artists, Adeline de Monseignat and Berndnaut Smilde, curated by James Putnam from 16 January – 16 February
The Uncanny draws on each artist’s relationship with their materials and the ways in which they create a sense of unease for the viewer by using the familiar out of context.
Dutch artist, Berndnaut Smilde produces striking images of ‘real’ clouds suspended within empty rooms. Using a fog machine, he carefully adjusts the temperature and humidity to produce clouds just long enough to be photographed.
Dutch-Monegasque artist de Monseignat creates sculptures and installations from organic and tactile materials such as fur, a material suspended between life and death, often encased in glass.
Installation view, The Uncanny, Ronchini Gallery London, , photo Susanne Hakuba
Installation view, The Uncanny, Ronchini Gallery London, , photo Susanne Hakuba
Installation view, The Uncanny, Ronchini Gallery London, , photo Susanne Hakuba
Installation view, The Uncanny, Ronchini Gallery London, , pho
The Ronchini Gallery currently boasts the artwork of Adeline De Monseignat and Berndnaut Smilde in The Uncanny exhibition curated by James Putnam. The exhibition embodies the idea of Freud’s concept as well as the juxtaposition of opposing mediums and notions. Drawn together in the works of two differing perceptions, the idea of the uncanny can be aesthetically proven to exist. Aesthetica talks to Adeline for some insight into her art.
A: How has the idea of ‘The Uncanny’ shaped your work?
ADeM: I read Freud’s essay The Uncanny during my degree. That same year I was assigned the task of writing an essay on my experience of ‘making the familiar strange’. A full day transcribed through the eyes of someone experiencing life for the very first time. However challenging that was, that day was an extraordinary adventure where I consciously learned to rediscover all the things I had long taken for granted – materials, noises, smells, people around me.
Alongside that immersive body and mind experience, the text on The Uncanny opened my eyes on all the oddities of life; the déjà-vu, the ghostly, the doppelganger, the intellectual uncertainty as to whether something is anima
Adeline Monseignat Edit Profile
painter
Adeline de Monseignat is a Dutch-Monegasque visual artist who lives and works in London.
Education
Adeline de Monseignat obtained her Bachelor in Language and Culture from University College London in , and completed her Fine Art Foundation Course at the Slade School of Fine Art before graduating from her Master of Arts in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School in with distinction.
Career
The artist’s practice, which primarily involves sculpture, installation art and drawing, investigates ways in which inanimate objects can trigger emotional responses and hold a sense of presence and life. She makes sculptures called &#;creaptures&#; – creature-sculptures, and has a special interest in The Uncanny, the contact and the origin. As a result of her degree show, curator Justin Hammond selected her to feature in the ‘’Catlin Guide’’, a book that features 40 new promising graduate artists in the United Kingdom.
She was thereafter shortlisted for The Catlin Art Prize, alongside 9 other fellow artists including Julia Vogl, Jonny Briggs and Gabriella Boyd.
She was awarded The Catlin Art Priz
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