London artist Mark Titchner has gone back to his roots to create the first exhibition in a gallery which opens in his old art college today.
Foyles chose 41-year-old Titchner, a former Turner Prize nominee, to mount the first exhibition at the top of their new store which has taken over the former Central Saint Martins building on Charing Cross Road. The aim is for the space which adjoins the shop’s new café is to be ”a gallery of the word”, and Titchner was chosen because he uses text as the basis of his work.
But when he visited to develop his giant mirrored vinyl wall with the words “An Image Of Truth” on one side and “Not One Word Less” on the other, it emerged the gallery is on the same floor as his third-year painting studio.
Titchner, who lives and works in south London, said: “It’s very odd coming back … I had some real psychic connection with the place.”
The exhibition opens to the public today and runs until August 17.
