Beyond Measure
dal 4/4/2008 al 31/5/2008
Segnalato da
4/4/2008
Beyond Measure
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Conversations across art and science. This exhibition - with its associated workshops, talks and events - explores how geometry is used by artists and astronomers, bio-chemists, engineers, surgeons, architects, physicists and mathematicians - among others - as a means to understand the world around us.
Curated by Barry Phipps
Over sixty contributors will have work on display in the exhibition Beyond
Measure: conversations across art and science. They include a new sculpture
by John Pickering and the Smart Modelling Group at Foster + Partners; work
by Turner prize winners Keith Tyson and Richard Deacon; virus-structure
models produced by the Nobel winning biophysicist Professor Sir Aaron Klug;
Professor Sir Roger Penrose¹s geometrical explorations of the mathematical
foundations of the physical universe and Tom Dixon¹s pylon chair.
Beyond Measure: conversations across art and science explores how geometry
is used by artists and astronomers, engineers, surgeons, architects,
physicists and mathematicians - among many others - as a means to explain,
understand and order the world around us.
Built around a series of participatory workshops, talks and discussions,
Beyond Measure will offer many different ways of engaging with geometry, and
many different views of the world we live in. The exhibition draws parallels
between the artist¹s studio, the laboratory and the study as equivalent
places for thinking, imagining and creating.
Kettle's Yard Interdisciplinary Fellow Barry Phipps says:
"As the theme of the show suggests, geometry, which began as a tool used to
measure the Earth, has since become fundamental to generating and mapping
new terrains of science. It is also a question for artists about our
engagement with a calculated world."
Artists have always engaged with science and in particular geometry. When
Einstein published his general theory of relativity in 1915, it was equally
important for artists as it was for science. The fourth dimension became a
key theme in Cubist, Futurist and Vorticist art.
Both Picasso and Duchamp made important work exploring the latest theories
of geometry. It is their legacy, both in terms of the understanding of space
and our position in it that is explored by the artists in this exhibition.
On display will be paintings by Iranian born painter Nader Ahriman, British
artist Peter Peri and Anglo-American artist Sarah Morris; an installation by
German sound artist Carsten Nicolai and the American minimalist Robert
Morris British; works on paper by artists as diverse as British icon Richard
Hamilton, the late Cuban-American Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Japanese artist
Tatsuo Miyajima.
Alongside the artists work will be objects that have not been previously
been seen by the general public. These include the first working model of a
hyperbolic surfaces crocheted by mathematician Dania Taimina, and the
dividers used by Sir Christopher Wren when designing St Paul¹s Cathedral.
Beyond Measure: conversations across art and science is organised by Barry
Phipps, Kettle¹s Yard¹s first Interdisciplinary Fellow. It follows on from
his earlier Kettle¹s Yard exhibition, Lines of Enquiry, which looked at
drawing across a wide range of disciplines.
Events
Gallery Talks
Saturdays, 2pm, admission free
12 April Dr Daina Taimina, mathematician (Cornell University)
19 April Dr Frank King, Computer Lab, Cambridge University.
A 90 minute walking tour of sundials around Cambridge.
26 April Robin Catchpole, astronomer
3 May Miguel de Beistegui, Philosopher
10 May Alan Bennett, glass blower, scientific instrument
designer/maker
17 May Eric Parry, architect
24 May Mr Tariq Ahmad, consultant plastic surgeon,
Addenbrooke¹s Hospital
31 May Conrad Shawcross, artist
Interdisciplinary Workshops
1pm-3pm
Each of these experimental sessions brings together an artist and a
scientist. They will spend the morning analysing the show before hosting a
stimulating afternoon workshop that will include both discussion and
practical engagement.
Wed 16 Apr: Artist Claude Heath and astronomer Carolin Crawford
Thurs 24 Apr Engineer Allan McRobie and artist
Thurs 22 May: Artist Claire Witcomb and chemist Tennie Videler
For adults
£10 per session or £25 for all three
Studios onsite
Mondays 5 May and 26 May, 11.30am-1.30pm, 2.30pm-5pm
Research engineer Pandia Raj Ramar (5th) and artist May Cornet (26th) will
each convert Kettle¹s Yard¹s Education Room into a studio space. See them at
work, chat about their practice and have a go making your own artwork.
Open to all ages, drop-in, no need to book, materials provided.
Evening Talk
Wednesday 23 April, 6.30pm
In the Garden
A talk by Richard Deacon.
Tickets £5 (£3 concessions)
Kettle's Yard
Castle Street - Cambridge