LONDON, ENGLAND.- Tate Britain presents "Art Now: Ian Kiaer: Brueghel project/studio," on view through January 25,2 004. Ian Kiaer makes carefully constructed groupings of found objects, architectural models, paintings and drawings which form poetic narratives.

Tate Britain’s Art Now programme responds to current developments in contemporary British art. At least five exhibitions are presented each year in the Art Now space, showcasing a broad spectrum of new talent in a diversity of media.

Ian Kiaer makes carefully constructed groupings of found objects, architectural models, paintings and drawings which form poetic narratives. The humble nature of Kiaer’s materials contrasts directly with the epic subjects they depict; a block of polystyrene represents a snow-covered sweep of land; an upturned plastic waste bin stands in for a sheer cliff face. Kiaer’s arrangments derive from detailed research into the idealistic notions of various historical figures, united in their desire for a retreat from the dominant ideologies of their day, or concerned with reconciling the relationship between man and environment. For Art Now, Kiaer brings together both new and existing works to explore the relationship between the landscape paintings of the sixteenth-century artist Pieter Brueghel and the working spaces of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Ian Kiaer, born in 1971, lives and works in London. He studied at the Slade School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Endless Theatre Project, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2003) and those at aspreyjacques, London (2003, 2001). He also showed in Dreams and Conflicts at this year’s Venice Biennale and Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art & Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, also this year.