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Oxmarket Contemporary

Chichester, 2-16 April 2024

"Transitions"

by Christopher Cristóbal Newberry

 

Also showing: 

"Burn, burn, burn - The Beats light up the Ox", on the Beat Generation.

Private Viewing:

2 April from 6 to 8 pm with a performance by composer and guitarist Michael Hughes.

 

Opening times:

Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.

Sundays 12 to 4 p.m.

Oxmarket Contemporary

St Andrew’s Court
off East Street
Chichester, West Sussex
PO19 1YH

Oxmarket are delighted to welcome Christopher Cristóbal Newberry with his ever-evolving work, encapsulated in his exhibition, “Transitions”, which depicts his work at different phases of his development.  He is fascinated by symmetry, repetitiveness, cycles, change, progression.   His use of intense colour is very much influenced by his upbringing in Mexico, but his interest in truth, reality, perception and beliefs has been developing over the years, especially since the advent of the ‘post-truth world’.

As he puts it, he is “pulling at the heartstrings with the neurons of the mind”.  He has photographed parts of reality – scenes, objects or people.  Christopher says, “a photograph is literally light that has bounced off reality and into the camera”.  He transforms this reality into either impossibly ‘perfect’ images or into abstractions. According to Garry Kenard, director of Art and Mind, “in Newberry’s pictures all aspects of the image are enhanced, from heightened colours to exaggerated symmetry to sharpened horizons and outlines. All of this leads to an art which can transform our emotional perception of the material world”.

 

Christopher’s ‘transitions’, have been:

 

  1. “Gestalt Blue Skies”:  In Gestalt theory, when we are presented with a partial view of an image, we 'complete the picture'.  We invent the parts we can’t see.  We give it meaning, regardless of whether it is true or not. 

  2. “Platonic Views”:  Plato thought that our world was merely the shadow of another 'ideal', perfect world.  The post-truth world presents us with simple, ‘ideal’ solutions to complicated problems.  Like all ideals, they only exist in the mind and not in reality.

  3. “Lockdown”:  During the Covid lockdowns people were forced to look at their immediate surroundings and routines with much more time and attention. The Lockdown series consists of composite images reflecting the world at home or the mind. 

  4. “Abstractions”:  Three dimensional reality is turned into flat, abstract images using the same palette of 20 colours.

  5. “Moon Shots”:  Every night, all over the world, no matter where one is, everyone sees the same moon.  It looms over all humanity.  Perhaps judging our follies.

 

Christopher was born and brought up in Mexico City.  He studied Communications at the Universidad Iberoamericana.  After completing his studies, he decided to travel hitchhiking in Europe.  When a few months later he ran out of money, he went to London. Through a series of fortuitous circumstances he worked as a housing adviser in Notting Hill.  Five years later he and his partner went to Mexico, where he directed documentaries for Mexico’s cultural television channels.  He and his partner returned to London where he worked as a freelance photographer and designer.  

 

Most recently he has exhibited at The Link Gallery, Winchester; Dean Clough Galleries in Halifax; the Creative Innovation Centre in Taunton; Hampshire Open Studios; Creates Gallery, in Bournemouth; The National Art Museum in Constanta, Romania; The Other Art Fair, King’s Cross, London; The Light Room, Alresford.

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Selection of previous shows:

The Light Room

Tuesday 14th to 20th June

"True Colours"

Exhibition at

The Light Room

The Old Chapel

The Dean

Alresford

Hampshire

SO24 9BQ

Email: info@the-lightroom.com

Web: www.the-lightroom.com

Opening Times: 

 

Tuesday to Sunday 10 am–6:30 pm

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Hampshire Open Studios

Christopher Cristóbal Newberry, Gallery 110, from 21 to 30 August

20 Newton Road, Twyford, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 1PE

Visiting Times: 
Daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Except Tues. Weds. Thurs. which is 2 to 7 p.m.
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The Other Art Fair

Christopher Cristóbal Newberry was at Stand 60, from 1 to 4 July in London

West Handyside Canopy, King’s Cross, 

1 Wharf Rd, London N1C 4BZ

Virtual Exhibition  (Click here to view)

Christopher Cristóbal Newberry  from 5 to 11 July in London 

Quick 2-minute video introduction to a Virtual Exhibition.
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From 15 February to 24 April 

"True Colours"

(Pulling at the heartstrings with the neurons of the mind).

by Christopher Cristóbal Newberry

at Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, West Yorkshire

Due to Covid 19 pandemic, the "True Colours" exhibition had to be closed 5 weeks before expected.

From 6 to 26 September 

"Sens[e]"
by Christopher Cristóbal Newberry, Tudor Tizoui and Philip Barnes
Constanta National Art Museum in Romania:
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The main hall at the Constanta National Art Museum

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Finishing touches to hanging the exhibition.
Opening event on Friday, 6 September at 4 p.m. with music performed live by the well known Romanian jazz pianist, Harry Tavitian and trumpetist, Sebastian Burneci.
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From 1 to 27 May 

"Striving for Imperfection"
by Christopher Cristóbal Newberry
The Art House, Southampton

“Striving for Imperfection”
Quasi-Reality in a Post-Truth World

Verisimilar Images by Christopher Cristóbal Newberry

Today we live in a ‘post-truth’ world where facts are altered and obfuscated. Christopher Newberry produces images which appear to be real or true, but are not. They are what viewers want to see or think they see. They are not what they seem. The images must be scrutinised. They are not truthful. They are platonic views, idealised views – a quasi-reality. They are verisimilar: they seem real, but are not. The original photos have become verisimilar images – not truthful ones.

From 20 May to 19 June

"Altered Realities"
Christopher Cristóbal Newberry and John Christopher Brooks
Creates Gallery, Dean Heritage Centre.

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Altered Realities is an exhibition by John Brooks and Christopher Cristobal Newberry exploring aspects of our surroundings that we do not normally perceive.

Newberry's images are verisimilar, that is they look like truth or reality, but are not. His images are a distortion of reality in the sense that they are simplified to resemble what can only exist as Platonic ideals: symmetry, straight lines...Euclidian geometric shapes. These images exist perfectly only in the mind not in nature, therefore his iamges cannot exist in reality. The purpose of his images is to invite viewers to see that they are false or exaggerated.

Brooks' images comprise abstractions of our surroundings or re-constructions of observed real objects with an added dimension to give the viewer the illusion of the third dimension or the interior structure of a building. Therefore the image as presented cannot exist but may be considered impressionistic of the subject as observed in reality.

What particularly brings Brooks and Newberry together is their shared "deadpan" approach to their subjects: the images entirely lack emotions where the object is captured something as it is, flat and almost uninteresting at first glance.There is almost a non-relationship between the photographer and the subject. There is evident indifference to what is being photographed, and this simplicity is what makes the photographs so alluring

From 20 May to 19 June

“Striving for Imperfection”
Quasi-Reality in a Post-Truth World
Verisimilar Images by Christopher Cristóbal Newberry
Creative Innovation Centre (CIC), Taunton, Somerset

Today we live in a ‘post-truth’ world where facts are altered and obfuscated. Christopher Newberry produces images which appear to be real or true, but are not. They are what viewers want to see or think they see. They are not what they seem. The images must be scrutinised. They are not truthful. They are platonic views, idealised views – a quasi-reality. They are verisimilar: they seem real, but are not. The original photos have become verisimilar images – not truthful ones.

Preview night:  Wed 4 April,   6-9 pm – All art lovers welcome
 
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