Craigie Horsfield
dal 15/3/2007 al 2/6/2007
Segnalato da
15/3/2007
Craigie Horsfield
Museum of Contemporary Art - MCA, Sydney
Film, photography, social projects and sound work
This autumn the MCA presents the first exhibition in Australia of the hauntingly beautiful
imagery of internationally renowned artist Craigie Horsfield.
Organised in collaboration with the Jeu de Paume in Paris, Craigie Horsfield: Relation spans a period of thirty-five
years and covers all aspects of Horsfield’s practice including film, photography, social projects and sound work.
Born in England in 1949 and short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1996, Horsfield presents us with a complex and
integrated vision of humanity and art. He initiated the concept of ‘slow time’ and continues to explore it in works that
are concerned with duration and challenge our inclination towards instantaneous responses.
A radical proponent of ideas concerning art and community since the 1960s, Horsfield examines how the individual
relates to society and the role of the audience in relation to a work of art.
According to the artist, 'All art is, in some sense, conversation'. It arises from the relation between viewer and image,
photographer and subject, person and place.
Working as a disc jockey in Eastern Europe in the 1970s, Horsfield returned to London in the 1980s and became a
crucial player in the transformation of photography at the end of the decade. In the 1990s he was a driving force
behind the development of social art and collaborative projects. He is also a long-standing advocate for the
introduction of sound work into the museum and the use of multi-screen projections as social spaces. One room of
the MCA exhibition will be devoted to a creating a new sound work that will incorporate the sounds of Sydney.
Portraits have also been central to Horsfield’s practice since the early 1970s, with a number of his large-scale, black-
and-white photographs featured in the exhibition, alongside a selection of drawings, collages, photograuves and
colour photographs of vegetables and flowers in bloom and decay.
Horsfield will initiate a new project specifically for this exhibition: a gallery-based program of events that provide
different ways for the wider community to relate to the museum. The project, called “Conversation”, commences on
Friday 16 March with a discussion in the MCA galleries between the artist and Professor Ien Ang, founding Director
of the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney.
The exhibition has been organized by the Jeu de Paume, with the collaboration of Centro de Arte Moderna José de
Azeredo Perdigão / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Lisbon and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
The to the
MCA and Craigie Horsfield: Relation is free.
MEDIA INFORMATION:
Contact Kym Elphinstone | 02 9245 2434 | 0421 106 139 | kym.elphinstone@mca.com.au
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