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CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is delighted to present ‘Transcript’, a group exhibition curated by gallery director Zavier Ellis and artist
Hugh Mendes. Both Ellis and Mendes have an enduring interest in text based work and in the occurrence of text itself in our
general cultural environment.
This exhibition will explore the use of text in contemporary art that has been transcribed from every day or alternative sources. For
over a century, ushered in by Pablo Picasso’s inclusion of the fragmented word ‘JOU’ and collaged oil cloth in ‘Still-Life with Chair
Caning’ (1912), artists have turned to low sources …