Alasdair Gray

This exhibition has two faces and within that simultaneously one, whose profile is succinctly drawn. In the fourth edition of The Keno Twins the curator, artist Michael Bauer, continues an exhibition cycle that uses iconological comparisons to set the peripheral alongside the innovative, things that are of an especially independently distinctive cast along side established ones. What we have here are those sculptures, paintings and graphic works from Outsider Art that are not within any official artistic framework and yet are repeatedly cited by established artists.

Connections are quickly made. Mask-like sculptures; drawings of fantastic dreams; photographs as precise, almost painstaking records of apparently visible cold radiation. But despite the manner of an antiques dealer, an art collector, indeed almost an art historian, it really is an artist who is assembling things that move him. Michael Bauer’s view of art is refreshingly free from stereotyped thinking.

The exhibition shows work by artists including Horst Ademeit, Steve Claydon, Michaela Eichwald, Alasdair Gray, Charlie Hammond, Chris Hipkiss, Aurel Iselstöger, Robert Kraiss, Fabian Marti, Jb Murray, Michel Nedjar, David Noonan, Dietrich Orth, Michail Paule, Stefanie Popp, Aurie Ramirez, Sava Sekulic, Renee So, Miroslav Tichy, Oskar Voll, August Walla, George Widener, Agatha Wojciechowsky, Mark van Yetter amongst other.