Alex Clarke

Incorporating painting, photographic works, text pieces and installation, Alex Clarke places a sharp focus onto the network of relationships around not only the artwork but also practices of making and dissemination. He identifies that the very reason to want to make an artwork at all can be framed by the desire to talk to one another- that both artwork and practice act as placeholders and expanded gestures of discussion or exchange. To load this most basic social mechanism with such primary value positions Clarke’s work in a vital space beyond abstraction and into real-life moments of encounter, regaining an intimacy to connection and connectivity. The result is a pluri-disciplinary practice, poetic and thoughtful at once with an aim to place the viewer in an active position with the works. ...

Super Dakota is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2013 supporting both emerging international artists and established leading artists. The gallery presents multi-disciplinary works with an emphasis on new technologies. They collaborate with galleries and institutions around the world and are committed to developing the career of the artists they represent. Their practice, ethics and integrity are the very core of their project. The galleries program highlights contemporary issues embedded in the zeitgeist and their exhibitions explore cultural, political as well as social contents. Artists exhibited at Super Dakota include but not exclusively: Mark Leckey, Paul McCarthy, Elizabeth Peyton, Adam Pendleton, Jeremy Deller, Alberta Whittle, Wade Guyton, Alexandra Domanovic, Julia Wachtel, Metahaven, Tabor Robak, John Divola, Jan Groover, Math Bass, Lawrence Weiner, Jacob Kassay, Oliver Laric, Magali Reus, Lothar Hempel, Neïl Beloufa, Sin Wai Kin, Bruce Nauman, Sanam Khatibi, Yvonne Rainer, Fischli & Weiss, Raymond Pettibon, Christine Wang, Sarah Abu Abdallah, Fred Sandback, Slavs and Tatars. ...