Plan to visit this month....
Light Show
30 January – 28 April
Light Show explores the experiential and phenomenalnature of light, bringing together sculptures and installations that use light to create specific conditions. The exhibition showcases artworks since the 1960s in which light itself is used as material to sculpt and shape space, often creating evocative environments and sensory works that operate at the edges of the viewer’s perception. Light has the power to affect our states of mind as well as alter our perceptions, and Light Show will include some of the most visually stimulating artworks created in recent years as well as rare works not seen for decades and re-created specially for the Hayward Gallery.
Artists in the exhibition include: David Batchelor, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Olafur Eliasson, Dan Flavin, Ceal Floyer, Jenny Holzer, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anthony McCall, François Morellet, Ivan Navarro, Katie Paterson, and Conrad Shawcross. The exhibition is curated by Cliff Lauson, Curator, Hayward Gallery.
And....
Project Space: Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear
Tate Modern: Exhibition
9 November 2012 – 17 February 2013
Since its birth, cinema has made a paradoxical demand on its viewers: to consciously suspend their disbelief. This remains a preoccupation for contemporary artists who have grown up exposed to an intense flow of still and moving images. The film and video works in this exhibition focus on the tension between image, narrative and the viewer’s perception. Together they expose the fracture between what we are shown on screen and what we see. Borrowing from various cinematic conventions, as well as formats including lecture, documentary, rehearsal and found footage, they examine the limits of our imagination and credulity. With a variety of approaches, their references move between the black boxes of movie theatres and the ‘black mirrors’ of our TV screens, computers and smart phones.
The exhibition blurs the boundary between depiction and deception and questions the logic of storytelling. Does the illusive charm of the moving image undermine its authority as a visual record? And what role does the viewer’s imagination play in constructing a narrative?
Artists: Herman Asselberghs, Manon de Boer, Sherif El-Azma, Patricia Esquivias, Lars Laumann, Maha Maamoun, Ján Mančuška.
Really looking forward to seeing both shows...planning to view Friday 1st February (my 43rd bday!) before heading down to see family. last blog announced the prospect of me getting on with some literature review...well what do you think I have not contributed to anything...but hey don't despair Saturday 5th Jan has taken a turning point in which I have started to read again. The book is Kinomuseum. Towards artists' cinema. Edited by Mike Speringer and Ian White (I may have mentioned in a previous posting, not sure??) explores the relationship between cinema and the museum, White states (p23) that 'perhaps the museum is like the cinema not only in terms of the display of moving image work. like cinema ( often commensurate with it), the museum is no stranger to the entrance fee. Block Buster exhibitions frequently 'sell out'...however what is argued by contrast the museum collects and preserves unique objects, at expense with strict controls over dates and times, further it is a tomb, temple, grotto, void, theatre etc etc (allan Kaprow p140; where cinema audiences have collective ownership over the work in which each member pays to watch, in different countries, cities and times at a duration..
im not sure where all this is leading too except another perspective into audience perception and another gap perhaps???...the museum a collector of things that watches on whilst we are merely passing through. the cinema a theater of moving image that as Kelly describes (p46).. screening an encounter in real time, and then sip into historical time as an image of the past reappearing in the present...Further Preziosi and Fargo describe the museum itself as a '' representation, an artifact as 'natural' as the 'specimens' it preserves'' (White) and museum objects are staged or framed to be read in a variety of ways...and serve as theatre, encyclopedia and laboratory, finally museums are perfomances...this also describes the conditions of the cinema...
Has video art become obsolete? The Green Ray Tacita Dean
Feb 16th - to see Tony Oursler at Tate Modern
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