Studio Paintings: Index (Addendum)
Published on the occasion of
Ian Whittlesea: Energy is Eternal Delight
at PayneShurvell, London, 17 June-23 July 2011

This limited edition print marks Whittlesea's return to the studio and a
continuing engagement with text and typography.

The Studio Paintings (1994-2002) describe the places where artists and
writers worked. Whittlesea transcribes the addresses and the migrations
of, among others, Mark Rothko, Donald Judd, Piet Mondrian, James Joyce
and William Blake. The edition Studio Paintings: Index shows in
miniature all the paintings produced from 1994 until 2002. After
Circumnavigation, a group of text paintings about Darwin's voyage and
his garden walk (2003), Whittlesea retreated from painting and, while
continuing to exhibit, stopped making new work. The obsessive attention
and discipline that sustained the production of the text paintings was
for the next few years directed exclusively toward judo — described
sometimes as 'physical chess', sometimes as the 'great crippler' of the
martial arts. Despite many and various injuries (broken ankle, nose,
ribs etc.), Whittlesea gained his black belt in 2007 and began work on
the translation and typesetting of Yves Klein's Fondements du Judo
(1954), published in 'transimile' in 2009.

Energy is Eternal Delight brings together several recent works dealing
with translation, simulation, title, text and typography, among them a
new painting, showing the New York address of Agnes Martin's studio, and
an Addendum to the Index, applied to the reverse of the 2002 print.

View the work
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Published by Vargas Organisation, London, available exclusively from
PayneShurvell for the duration the exhibition.
Contact: James Payne

Studio Paintings: Index, The Foundations of Judo and other editions by
Ian Whittlesea are available from Vargas Organisation, London
http://vargas.org.uk/publications/ian_whittlesea

Private view: 16 June 2011, 1800-2000h
PayneShurvell: 16 Hewett Street, London EC2A 3NN
Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday 1100-1800h
or by appointment +44 20 0011 4115