Artist: Daniel Sinsel
Venue: Ginny on Frederick, London, UK
Date: April 29 – May 27, 2023
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Ginny on Frederick, London
Ginny on Frederick is pleased to present three new works by Daniel Sinsel, combining painting with assemblage.
All three works involve techniques, materials or motifs used in the past: weaving, painting or fingerprinting, linen tape, nuts, or glass roundels, a recorder and its player, a winding ribbon, irregularly shaped canvases and more recently stripes or arrows of coloured fields.
Untitled, 2023 depicts a silhouette of a man playing the recorder against a striped fading backdrop. In the foreground is a painted ledge with orange-red cut glass discs attached, reminiscent of a setting sun.
Untitled, 2023 is made up of a large colour field stripe painting with a smaller canvas mounted to it. The attached panel depicts winding ribbon against a fading sky and holds shards of coloured broken glass on its top edge.
Untitled, 2023 is a painting on a surface woven from linen tape hiding nutshells within its weave. Black nets holding carbonised nutshells and fruit stones are attached to either side.
Within his repertoire and stock of motifs, Sinsel defines their relationships in ever new combinations. He renders painterly illusion and playfully disrupts it with material additions in the form of low relief. Through appropriating materials and their use in new, awkward or queering gestures, he explores aspects of managing, and revealing, desire.
Daniel Sinsel (b. 1976, Munich) lives and works in London. He studied at the Royal College of Art (2004) and the Chelsea College of Art and Design (2002), both London. Sinsel has exhibited internationally and his work has been included in Thanks for the apples, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth (2021); Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London (2021); ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017); Disobedient Bodies: J.W. Anderson at the Hepworth Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield (2017); British Art Show 8, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, travelling to multiple institutions across the UK (2016-2017); Making & Unmaking, curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); MIRRORCITY: 23 London Artists, Hayward Gallery, London (2014); Somewhat Abstract: Selections from the Arts Council Collection, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (2014); Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London (2010); Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); Beck’s Futures, ICA, London (2006). He is represented by Sadie Coles HQ (London, UK) and Jason Haam (Seoul, South Korea).
