DOUBLETAKE
Denise de Cordova and Peter Rasmussen

27 November - 19 December 2009

Doubletake brings together two of the Eagle Gallery's represented artists in an exhibition that explores how we read visual forms and images.

Denise de Cordova's sculptures play with scale and materiality, faithfully reproducing in paint details of the texture and plumage of oversized birds. Peter Rasmussen presents sequences of images ranging from abstract to figurative, which are concerned with the layering and juxtaposition of different kinds of marks, often combining directly painted and printed passages on the surfaces of his works on paper and canvas. Both artists' work presents the viewer with a series of dualities where illusion is acknowledged and played upon. The powerful ambiguity of De Cordova's sculpture relies on an accurate, detailed rendering of nature that is distorted, while Rasmussen's images have the quality of arrested film stills which hint at narratives but which are primarily concerned with arrested moments in the process of making.

Denise de Cordova trained at Brighton Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, London. She has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions and has had solo shows at the Showroom, London and Flowers East, London, amongst others.

Peter Rasmussen studied at Chelsea College of Art, graduating in 1977. He has exhibited in many group exhibitions in the UK, Denmark and Germany and has had over ten solo shows since 1991, including Galerie Eiswurfel, Berlin (2004) and the Eagle Gallery. London (2006).

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