After the Gold Rush
dal 18/3/2010 al 24/4/2010
Segnalato da
Allora & Calzadilla
Cornelia Parker
Guido van der Werve
Jonathan Monk
Mark Soo
Cate Rimmer
18/3/2010
After the Gold Rush
Charles H. Scott Gallery - Emily Carr University, Vancouver
An exhibition about post-event "afterness". The work exhibited explores this condition in a number of ways, encompassing political and cultural change, shifts in perception and use value as well as more personal states of afterness. With: Allora & Calzadilla, Cornelia Parker, Guido Van Der Werve, Jonathan Monk, Mark Soo. The show opens in Vancouver at a time when the city is experiencing its own post-Olympic Games "morning after". Exhibition curated by Cate Rimmer.
Exhibition curated by Cate Rimmer
The Charles H. Scott Gallery is pleased to present After the Gold Rush, an exhibition about post-event "afterness". The work in the exhibition explores this condition in a number of ways, encompassing political and cultural change, shifts in perception and use value as well as more personal states of afterness. The exhibition opens in Vancouver at a time when the city is experiencing its own post-Olympic Games "morning after".
In their film How to Appear Invisible, Puerto Rico-based artists Allora & Calzadilla document the demolition of Berlin’s Palast der Republik, a prominent landmark of the former German Democratic Republic.
Originally commissioned for an exhibition at the British Museum, Cornelia Parker's We Know Who You Are We Know What You Have Done criticizes the coalition between Tony Blair and George Bush.
Vancouver artist Mark Soo’s large photographic work Indeterminate Parts investigates perception, representation, and the breakdown and re-formation of meaning.
Jonathan Monk’s sculptural works Thieves Remains and Brian play with the shift in use-value that occurs when utilitarian objects are emptied of their value and are then repurposed into objects of art.
Dutch artist Guido van der Werve’s Nummer twee: Just because I’m standing here, doesn’t mean I want to and Nummer zeven: The clouds are more beautiful from above, blend melancholy and absurdity, longing and failure.
Image: Allora & Calzadilla, still from How to Appear Invisible, 16mm film on HD, 2008.
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Closing Reception: Friday, April 23 at 7:30pm
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