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Caroline Bergvall: Middling English, Foreword
No full textPublication related to Caroline Bergvall: Middling English exhibition at John Hansard Gallery, 2010
There Where You Are Not
No full textThere Where You Are Not is a collaborative project featuring new works by Guy Moreton, Alec Finlay, and Jeremy Millar. The exhibition explores the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and his interest in the landscape (of language), and architecture within landscape. The remote places to which Wittgenstein was drawn include the northerly landscapes of Iceland and Norway; the alpine village of Trattenbach, where he worked as a school teacher; and the later refuges that he found in Connemara and County Wicklow in Ireland. These landscapes all share a quality of ‘quiet seriousness’ that reflects aspects of his philosophy and his own psychology. Wittgenstein’s retreat to Skjolden, Norway, lies at the heart of the collaboration between Alec Finlay and Guy Moreton. Presenting a descriptive essay in text and photography, they reflect upon the site of Wittgenstein’s house overlooking Lake Eidsvatnet and the surrounding landscape. Here he worked on the manuscripts of the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations, and its relationship to a more general cultural model of a ‘house for thought’. The austerity and sense of isolation in Finlay’s collage poem and Moreton’s photographs can also be found in The Dark Night of the Intellect, a new film by Jeremy Millar. Based upon an essay written and, here, narrated by Tim Robinson, the film explores the landscape of Rosroe on Ireland’s western coast, described by Wittgenstein as ‘the last pool of darkness at the edge of Europe’. Another new work brings together footage from the artist’s home with a musical echo from Wittgenstein’s childhood. It attempts to establish both a sense of belonging and an understanding of how we might engage with the place of another. Wittgenstein was a radical literary theorist, writing philosophy as if it were poetry. There is a poetic intensity to the works on show that illustrates a form of expression more eloquent than language, echoing Wittgenstein’s own exploration of the visual depths of language. Yet while this exhibition possesses a quiet, haunting beauty, it is not without a sense of play, perhaps most clearly found within Finlay’s Language Games (Word Puzzles) and Wall Wordrawings - wanderings within Wittgenstein’s thought, and points from which our own thoughts might also wander<br/
Jochem Hendricks, Foreword
No full textExhibition Publication in conjunction with Jochem Hendricks Exhibition 06/11/12 - 20/12/1
Sunil Gupta. Pictures from here
No full textThis summer, the John Hansard Gallery unveils new works by London based artist, Sunil Gupta. The culmination of a three year AHRB Creative and Performing Arts Research Fellowship conducted at the University of Southampton, Pictures From Here (named after the artist's new Autograph book published by Chris Boot) is a solo exhibition showcasing Gupta’s latest issue based work about HIV and place.The work featured in this exhibition makes a personal exploration of ‘homeland’ as experienced by the artist who has lived in London, Northern India and the Eastern part of Canada. The photo-text, photo-document and photo-juxtaposition-cum-montage pieces — specially made for this exhibition during a residency at Light Work, Syracuse University — act as an individual, cultural geography. They narrate Gupta’s personal journey — from his birthplace in India, through his adopted homes in Canada and England — and his multifarious identity as a gay man of colour with HIV. They further convey the photographic struggle to visualise the complex relationships and identities that belie the Eastern landscape Gupta has inherited and the Western landscape he inhabits. His journey between them and their juxtaposition in the photographic diptych, not only depicts the artist’s dislocated relationship to ‘homeland’ but also the spreading of the HIV virus. Developing this theme, the new video work (A World Without) Pity, 2002, documents the stories of HIV positive people and the professionals managing their treatment. Made during the artist’s return to India, the accounts featured reflect Gupta’s search for a mirroring of his British HIV experience in Indi
Julian Grater. A scattering of dust
No full textToured to Wolverhampton, Preston and Truro Municipal Galleries.Catalogue published by Pratt Contemporary Art
Patrick Heron, Jonathan Lasker, Katie Pratt
No full textWhere does an abstract painting begin? With a drawing, a doodle, a chance event, a colour? And how does this define the appearance of the final work? This exhibition explores the process of ‘cause and effect’ within the work of three painters, spanning three generations of artPatrick Heron, Jonathan Lasker and Katie Prat
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