Flights of Reality
dal 12/1/2002 al 3/3/2002
Segnalato da
12/1/2002
Flights of Reality
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Charles Avery, Matthew Ritchie, Keith Tyson, Grace Weir, Keith Wilson. Flights of Reality parallels science in uncovering new routes of thought. Drawing on myth, science, empirical observation, information theories, and philosophy, the works oscillate between the familiar and the unknown, between revealed truths and imaginary worlds.
Flights of Reality parallels
science in uncovering new
routes of thought. Drawing
on myth, science, empirical
observation, information
theories, and philosophy, the
works oscillate between the
familiar and the unknown,
between revealed truths and imaginary worlds. The
exhibition brings together new and recent work by five
contemporary artists who pursue aberrant lines of thought
to create competing versions of a world nudged from its
everyday axis.
The unfinished, and improvised nature of the works could
be described as thoughts in progress mapping out patterns
of the possible, or the debris of ideas that remain from the
collision between science and the everyday. In their
creation of new or rival cosmologies, these playful and
speculative works are reminders of the ways in which we
do not see the world.
New works include a 9 x 15 drawing consisting of 50,000
triangles by Charles Avery; Eschaton, a 45 drawing by
Matthew Ritchie; a new video work by Grace Weir, who
represented Ireland at this years Venice Biennale and is
making her debut in the UK; a large scale installation by
Keith Wilson, based upon the latest, and potentially the
most revolutionary theory to hit the world of science, the
asymmetrical structure of the fish brain.
Image: Charles Avery, The Creation panel no.3 (1998)
Kettle's Yard Gallery
Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ United Kingdom
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays 11.30-17.00