Carter Presents at Apt Draschan


Gerhard Himmer
Ellie Howitt
Daniel Jackson
Leo Kogan
Gavin Nolan
Dereck Ogbourne
Hans Petri
Jamie Robinson
Paul Sakoilsky
Colin Smith
Heather Sparks

Carter Presents www.carterpresents.com is a young gallery in London's East
End which is gaining a reputation for exhibiting challenging and innovative
art with a series of curated group shows, as well as solo exhibitions of young emergent talent exhibiting with more established experimental artists.

With a youthful approach and a disregard for social niceties, Carter presents artists who search deep inside themselves for ways to extemporize their language, and relay
their message. The artists filter in often oblique ways the inner thoughts and anxieties of society to act as a countering and balancing mechanism. They recognize and use
the resources to hand to produce work of insight, not just a barometer of taste, fashion and opinion. These artists are at the zeitgeist, attuned and sensitized to the reality of the present, the immediate and the imminent. They are the urbanites from the USA, England and Europe feeding off the rich pickings of greed, avarice,
envy, dislocation and paranoia which nestles at the kernel of society.

London's East End in particular has always been inhabited by the working classes, the poor, the criminal, the revolutionary the immigrant and the artisan. Beginning with the Jews in 1653, then the Huguenots fleeing the Catholic persecutions in the 1680s to more recently Bangladeshis, West Indians, Africans, Cypriots, artists and bohemians. It was here that Marx visited whilst researching and writing Das Kapital, Lenin and even Stalin came to Whitechapel. It is here that the suffragette movement was formed whilst Jack The Ripper sliced up prostitutes and the Kray twins, Britain's most notorious gangsters, ruled. More recently city money, urban regeneration and improving infrastructure has seen an up market economic migration in advance of the Olympics to be held here in 2012.

Carter sets out to highlight this with on-going curatorial projects. Carter is also forging links with American and European artists and art spaces and sees this as part of a continual dialogue to exhibit exciting talent from London to a wider audience, but also importantly to bring artists from Europe and beyond to London. The first exhibition at Apt Draschan in Vienna sets up a collaboration for future shows traveling to Frankfurt, Paris and Amsterdam in 2006 and 2007.