Mick Peter

When they came to the middle of the boulevard they both sat down at the same moment on the same seat. Each took off his hat to mop his brow and put it beside him; the smaller man noticed, written inside his neighbour’s hat, Bouvard; while the latter easily made out the word Pécuchet, in the cap belonging to the individual in the frock-coat. ‘Well, well’, he said, ‘we both have the same idea, writing our names inside our headgear.’ (Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet)

Exploring the inevitable incoherence of things this show pits objects against themselves to generate crude combinations in odd sizes. Inspired by Flaubert’s literary nobodies Bouvard and Pécuchet, Peter has set out to emulate their exasperated attempts to understand the world by following books and diagrams. The result is that these new works are made up of recognisable parts that look like an accident in an office and something approaching an ornamental garden respectively. Binary stupidity is relayed in pairs of images and repeated objects as the two clerks finish each other’s sentences moving toward ever-greater follies.

This exhibition presents a new body of work and will be followed by a publication with a text by Dan Fox.

Mick Peter lives and works in Glasgow. Recent exhibitions include: Like it Matters at the CCA, Glasgow in 2005, Liste 06 Basel, Switzerland and Galerie Nomadenoase at Fortescue Avenue in 2005.

Mick Peter