The The Things Is (For 3)
dal 7/7/2010 al 11/9/2010
Segnalato da
7/7/2010
The The Things Is (For 3)
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
A solo exhibition of work by a London-based artist who emerged in the early 1990s, working with sound, performance, sculpture, collage and photography the artist creates narratives or systems which are played out in, the form of installations, interventions and live events
Milton Keynes Gallery presents a major solo exhibition of work by a London-based
artist who emerged in the early 1990s, exhibiting with Gavin Brown at City Racing
in London and collaborating with artists including Liam Gillick, Elizabeth Wright
and Paul Noble. Working with sound, performance, sculpture, collage and
photography, the artist creates narratives or systems which are played out in the
form of installations, interventions and live events.
The artist’s practice often precipitates unexpected contradictions and humorous
outcomes, playfully experimenting with language, image, form and identity. In an
early piece Be Me presented at Interim Art, London (1996), thirty-one friends and
acquaintances were invited to assume the artist’s persona for the day and to exhibit
the results. For Went to America didn’t say a word (1999), the artist travelled to
New York, stayed overnight and returned home, without uttering a word. The
sounds that surrounded the journey were recorded by mini-disc and presented as a
sound work at Space in London. Interests in displacement and exploiting surprising
situations are channelled into an ongoing sound performance Violin Siren (2004-
present) where street noises, such as police sirens, are transcribed onto classical
musical instruments.
The exhibition at Milton Keynes Gallery contains three new installations and a
sculptural piece that wraps around the exterior of the building. ANOTHER
ANOTHER RING OF BALLS (2010), is a row of found magazine pages pasted
around the walls of a room, each page containing a circular image, arranged in
order of size. WOMAN MAN MAN WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN MAN MAN 1975
GEORGE M. HESTER, (2010) presents a series of pages from a book with black
and white images of nudes on a light box so that the paper disappears and the back
and front of the pages merge to create hermaphrodites. Other work will combine
performance, sculpture, objects and installation, inviting visitors literally to leave
their mark: a denim carpet wrapped around the building records the footprints of
visitors as they walk through the space and a fully functioning rock band’s
equipment is set up, live, and ready to play.
The exhibition displays a range of the artist’s experiments with systems, geometry,
chance and the absurd. Each work opens up a space for the imagination,
encouraging varying degrees of interaction and response, inviting the viewer into a
playful dialogue with the artist.
A catalogue with an interview between the artist and Milton Keynes Gallery Director
Anthony Spira and a text by art historian Gilda Williams will be available.
Press Information
For more information and images, please contact Rosie Jackson, Press & Marketing
Coordinator on 01908 558 302 or r.jackson@mk-g.org with any queries.
Image: courtesy of previous exhibited artist Mark Leckey.
Opening Thursday 8 July 2010, 6pm – 10pm, featuring a new performance.
Milton Keynes Gallery
900 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes (UK)
Hours: Tuesday – Friday 12noon – 8pm, Saturday 11am – 8pm, Sunday 11am – 5pm, closed Mondays.
Admission free