‘HUBBA HUBBA’ New Paintings by Mike Pratt, 6th March 2009, 7 – 9pm

MIKE PRATT
HUBBA HUBBA

Preview: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Friday 6th March 2009

SATELLITE
61 Thornton Street
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 4AW
United Kingdom

10:30 AM – 6:00 PM, Monday to Saturday

For its inaugural exhibition SATELLITE presents a series of new paintings by Mike Pratt (b.1987, Seaham, UK). Pratt’s large canvases immediately engage us with frank and achingly simple phrases borrowed from contemporary life: LOL, I’M WITH STUPID, andHUBBA HUBBA are caked with layers of mixed paint types, from Gloss to Oil to Spray. Each action obliterates the last until the ‘right’ statement has the last word. Pratt’s work knowingly references abstract expressionism, pop art and the paintings of Richard Prince and Christopher Wool whilst maintaining their own immediate and sophisticated language.

“…My work consists of triggers and viewpoints; it is led by a simplistic notion that gives itself a sense of absurdity. My belief is that the work should speak about itself, it should question its own being and criticize its opinions. The work stands as a remark; there is nothing sentimental or ‘worldly’, just a final aesthetic (this would be my testimony). I have no problem recycling the ideas of others; I see this as my viewpoint to select and covet from the existing to make the new. I see everything as a physical structure; this in itself demands reasoning, a competence to relate not only to its environment but to itself. The idea that a piece of work becomes self aware and insecure…”
Mike Pratt 2009

SATELLITE is an independent 4 x 3 meter white cube project space for contemporary art situated within Alt Vinyl Record Store in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Our programme will focus upon solo exhibitions of artists at any stage in their career, located anywhere, who are engaged with current contemporary practice.

To celebrate the opening of SATELLITE Beer and Cakes will be served at The Settle Down Café located at 62 Thornton Street adjacent to Alt Vinyl.