Two exhibitions
dal 1/10/2004 al 7/11/2004
Segnalato da
1/10/2004
Two exhibitions
Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
Bedwyr Williams practice incorporates performance (including stand-up comedy), video, writing, photography & drawing. Humour plays a great part in all his works, which often contributes to a cutting critique or satire on his chosen subject. Andrew McDonald, Every day is different. The work of Andrew McDonald explores a world where seemingly innocuous empty rooms and landscapes become the scenes of unimaginable terror. What is particularly disturbing and absurd is that these things are animated and alive.
GALLERY 1
BEDWYR WILLIAMS: TYRANNY OF THE MEEK
2 OCTOBER Â 7 NOVEMBER
Bedwyr Williams practice incorporates performance (including stand-up comedy), video, writing, photography & drawing. Humour plays a great part in all his works, which often contributes to a cutting critique or satire on his chosen subject.
When Bedwyr was a teenager he belonged to a model railway society that met in an old quarrymen's social club. The group shared the shed with a snooker club, and had to walk through the tables to get to their own section. When they walked past the tables with their trains or bits of scenery there was always some hassle about getting past the players.
'Tyranny of the Meek' is a fantasy where model railways take over a snooker world. The exhibition is a collection of snooker tables with trains travelling through the tunnels; stopping off at blue chalk quarries and cue logging companies.
A publication is being produced to coincide with the exhibition, and features a text by John Beagles. Available from Chapter on request (publication date 1 October 2004).
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GALLERY 2
ANDREW MCDONALD: EVERY DAY IS DIFFERENT
2 OCTOBER Â 7 NOVEMBER
The work of Andrew McDonald explores a world where seemingly innocuous empty rooms and landscapes become the scenes of unimaginable terror. What is particularly disturbing and absurd is that these things are animated and alive. McDonald's scratchy drawings flicker slowly in black and white, adding to the suspense.
Animation is still a rare entity in the contemporary art canon. Where photography, film and video have all been easily accepted, animation still seems to be linked with advertising and entertainment, and as such even now seems cumbersome and awkward when presented as art.
Yet animation relies on the most fundamental of art skills - drawing. By its nature it is about time. McDonald not only has to have one good idea and execute one drawing, he has to develop hundreds of good drawings in making that idea ready for presentation. Being involved in this process allows McDonald to return to a minute or a thirty- second clip over long periods. It perhaps is also responsible for some of the more twisted thoughts, and a constant questioning of his position as an artist.
A publication has been produced to coincide with this exhibition, and features texts by Neil Mulholland and Gordon Dalton. Available from Chapter on request (Publication date 1 October 2004).
Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff CF5 1QE, UK