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g39: Cities of Ash - 12 July 2014 to 13 Sept 2014 Current Exhibition |
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Robin Tarbet, Still from 'Monitored Landscape', 2013
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The artists in Cities of Ash offer the god-like experience of model city panoramas found in civic museums or on observation decks of towering skyscrapers. They each engage in the pursuit of obscuring the urban experience with a fantasy veil, leaving glimpses between its brushstrokes. The idea of shelter and the inhabitant is at the core of much of the work of Emily Speed. She makes broad inquires into how a person is shaped by the buildings they have occupied, how a person occupies their own psychological space and man’s attempt to create permanence and legacy through building. Robin Tarbet assumes the role of a folk science explorer, which leads him to dismantle, dissect, and distort everyday technologies and appliances. Aesthetically he examines the architectural and conceptual similarities of the built environment to the increasingly technological yet mysterious worlds within. James Moore’s photo-realist paintings are constructed landscapes and fictional spaces that make up the stage for an exploration of painting as a simulacrum more than a representation. Ultimately, Moore’s paintings seek to picture something tangible, conjured up from our culture’s obsession with simulations and fiction. Colin Booth’s installations look at the relationship between the historic or already existing and the contemporary or new. His work holds both a personal narrative and a broader reference to early modernism and the built environment. It explores relationships between form and function, art and transformation and the fragmentary and transient nature of our material environment. Hannah Waldron makes tapestries that are architecturally grounded in place, but are adrift in time. She carefully examines and maps aspects of human interpretation of a landscape. She uses the nomadic quality of textiles to explore the role of the traveller, the tourist, the collector of cities. Rob Voerman creates the architecture of fictive communities consisting of a mixture of utopia, destruction and beauty. Voerman’s often highly decorated self-build structures reflect on modernist ideas in relation to our current time and our current social and political issues. From the cabin of the ‘Unabomber’ hidden in the Montana forests, to Art Deco and other influences, Voerman combines Romanticism with the grim qualities of terror, often resulting in a direct translation of destruction in a purely aesthetic form. Through moving images and photography, Isabelle Hayeur investigates environmental, urban planning and social concerns. Isabelle engages with altered landscapes, industrial sites and suburban areas, showing how our societies take over territories and adapt them to their own needs. Cities of Ash presents an immersive assembly of fantastical urban infrastructure, quasi-realism and psychogeographical reflection. Asking metaphysical questions about the environment in which over half of the world’s population now call ‘home’, the exhibition presents contemporary artistic processes that make architectural inquisitions pertinent to g39’s panoptic inner-city warehouse. |
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