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Press ReleaseJames Colman is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in London by the Belgian artist Marcel Berlanger entitled 'One-Eyed', from the 24 January to 28 February 2003. Berlanger's quest to interpret 'multiple approximations of reality' is divulged by an array of different black and white paint processes. The sharply focused representations of willow trees and plumes of smoke are meticulously painted onto a raster of fibre-glass and polyester. The viewer is invited to commune with nature at variable distances, depending on the individual's strength and weakness of vision. Close-up the images melt. At a distance they distort, then harden into focus. Perversely, Berlanger challenges the very methodology by which eye-sight is measured. He introduces the oculist’s reading-panel into the language of painting. Hazily painted large letters are set against sharp smaller letters. The result is to simultaneously magnify and to shrink the image. With this particular way of seeing, Berlanger recreates the vision of someone with a serious eye defect, but also makes the connection between form and the language that defines the way that an image is rationalized. Marcel Berlanger received a BA and MA in Fine Art at the ERG (Ecole Rechercher de Graphiques) in Brussels between 1990– 1997 and has exhibited widely in Europe. He also participated at the 'La Trahison des images' exhibition (Palazzo Franchetti) during the Venice Biennale in 2001. This exhibition is part of an exchange programme in association with In Situ Gallery, Aalst, Belgium.
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