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Exhibition Detail Robert Rush AF Projects: New Works Art First Contemporary Art 21 Eastcastle Street London, W1 8DD United Kingdom March 29th, 2012 - May 12th, 2012 Opening: March 29th, 2012 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
	Robert Rush © Courtesy of the Artist and Art First Contemporary Art

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An exhibition of new paintings and sculptures orbiting around the anxieties of life and death. Rush's overarching title for this new body of work - "Fuck You, Mr Death" - refers explicitly to the knowledge and certainty of mortality having a dual aspect in operating (potentially) both as a weight of despair and as a compelling mobilizing incentive. As such the characters and objects of the show find themselves in various states of composure and disarray, capitulation and defiance in the face of the inevitable.

Robert Rush (born 1978) trained at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy Schools. He was included in 2006 Bloomberg New Contemporaries and the 2008 John Moores 25 at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.