Javier Rodriguez's Chromatic Aberations and David Stearn: Works opened as part of the relaunch of T1+2 Gallery as HIVE Projects.

The opening took place on the 7th of November from 6-9 pm at 8-10 Greatorex St, Whitechapel E1 5NF. Full valet parking for bikes was available on the evening.

In Chromatic Aberrations, Javier Rodriguez explores the relationship between product and process in mass media production. Using overprint sheets and cleaning rolls recycled from industrial printing presses, Rodriguez takes the physical surplus of the printing process and uses it to interrogate the transience of contemporary print media. The overprints, or 'maculaturas', are displayed on heavy wooden pallets, their position determining our course through the exhibition space. On the walls long banners of blurred newstype reference the over-saturation created by constant news production. This impression is reinforced by the posters with which Rodriguez papers the walls of the gallery, composites of the lurid newstype of the Venezuelan and British popular press.

David Stearn is a young artist working in London. His practice interrogates the elementary principles of sculpture. He makes artworks from incongruous materials like balloons, fans, and - at the HIVE relaunch - a snowstorm. Stearn’s work plays with the principles surrounding the manipulation of matter. Unlike ‘hard’ sculpture, where the work is delimited by its physical limits, Stearn’s work rejects physical boundaries. As part of David Stearn: Works, Stearn is also exhibiting a series of colour studies, chalk wall-based works in which the artist explores tonal grading with a mathematical degree of precision.

The opening also featured a unique collaboration with the post-combustion-electric-collective Cities in the Dark. They showed an interactive installation and footage taken during their recent journey around Uganda, during which the collective took their bicycle powered cinema to a remote village, staged a series of film screenings and organised a bicycle race with the couriers of Kasese known locally as the Boda Boda Rally - Race to the Center of the Earth.


The exhibition was open from 7th of November until Sunday 6th of December, 2009. Open Thurs- Fri 4-7pm, Sat-Sun 12-6 pm or by appointment.