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Curator's Statement British artist Simon Periton's cut outs follow a long tradition of paper and cut outs, which point to a range of references -- from Matisse, to origami, to krafting and snowflake making, and share the Contemporary stage with other emerging paper cutting artists. His work in the Dikeou Collection consists of three barbed wire cut outs number I, III and IV, in target arrangements, and his infamous Radiant Anarchy Doily which appeared on the cover of Frieze. The circular formats recall Jasper Johns' use of the target. Periton's employment of foil, barbs, and the "A" for Anarchy cleverly attacks the idea Johns addressed: formal space and color in terms of literal recognition (of the target as recognizable icon) and formal resolutions of space and color as one sees them. Periton's iconographic use of Pop imagery, one that bespeaks a certain youth and culture, fuses image and space, whereas Johns meant to defuse it through the use of images that provoked no meaning. Periton's cut-outs were published for the first time anywhere in zingmagazine issue #12, in a project entitled "What's mine is mine/What's yours is mine". Devon Dikeou |