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16/1/2002

Keith Tyson

South London Gallery SLG, London

Keith Tyson is emerging as one of the most interesting artists working today. For his solo show at the South London Gallery, Tyson has made an impressive new body of work born of his on-going fascination with complex scientific concepts. The exhibition title, Supercollider, is derived from the slang name for the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva.

Tyson is an avid collector of information, nourished by a daily diet of texts and conversations about this scientific theory or that philosophical argument. Talking with the artist almost inevitably turns at one moment or another to his latest line of enquiry, but it isn't a simple pursuit of knowledge which drives him. It is rather a desire to experiment, to use information to create extraordinary drawings, objects and systems which express something about our very existence. The works in Supercollider are visual manifestations of the artist's unique way of navigating the information-rich world we inhabit.

Image: Supercollider, Studio Wall Drawing, July 2001
Courtesy the artist and Anthony Reynolds Gallery

A giant glass sphere, two metres in diameter, gradually, almost imperceptibly changes colour, from blue to violet to red and back again as its heat sensitive surface reacts to heating and cooling elements inside, competing to impact on the pea-sized central core from which the work takes its name, A Tiny Bubble of Complexity. Field of Heaven Long Shot Magnet is a motorised model which makes real pieces of planets and meteorites, including a chunk of the moon, rotate around each other in an orbital arrangement which would never occur naturally.

In Tyson's world, probability provides an endless source of inspiration. A Night in a Billion is an enormous, twelve-part drawing of stars. There are 460,000,000 ways of putting the twelve parts together, the chances of setting up the same configuration more than once being over a billion to one. The odds of being able to play Random Tangler no.1 the same way twice are comparably small, as this giant, beautifully crafted board game relies on mathematical knots and systems to ensure there are endlessly different ways to proceed.

The South London Gallery is known for its striking, high-ceiling exhibition space. With three sculptures occupying the central area and the walls covered with studio drawings, some of which are so huge yet intricate that visitors will have to climb a ladder in order to view them, Supercollider promises to make impressive use of the space.

Keith Tyson's room in the Italian Pavilion at the recent Venice Biennale received critical acclaim and he has a growing reputation in mainland Europe and America with two solo shows coming up in 2002. In 1999 he had a solo exhibition at Delfina, where he exhibited some of the results of his 'Artmachine Iterations', he was included in The British Art Show 5 and in Century City at Tate Modern. He is also one of the four artists representing Britain in the Sao Paolo Biennale in March 2002. An expanded version of the artist's South London Gallery exhibition will be shown at the Kunsthalle Zurich in April 2002.

Supercollider launches the exhibition programme at the South London Gallery under the new directorship of Margot Heller. The exhibition has been made possible by the generous sponsorship of Bloomberg and additional funding from the Henry Moore Foundation.

Bloomberg have also made it possible for the gallery to host an ambitious education programme in conjunction with the show. As well as an extensive programme of events for schools, there will be a free activity sheet for young visitors to the exhibition designed by the artist David Austin, free talks at the gallery and two family days out during National Science Week on Saturdays 9th and 16th March. These will include a coach trip from the South London Gallery to the Science Museum, with practical workshops and activities at both venues.

An artist's book is being produced to accompany the exhibition, priced £5.00

THE SLG NEWSPAPER

Full details will be included in the SLG newspaper, the first issue of which will be published in January 2002. Due to be published six times a year, each copy will feature a special pull-out section devised by the artist(s) currently exhibiting at the gallery. The 16-page pull-out section of the first issue is by Keith Tyson. The newspaper is produced in an edition of 30,000 copies distributed to libraries, shops and art schools near the South London Gallery, to people on the SLG's mailing list, and to people living within ten minute's walk of the gallery.

TALKS AT SLG

Thursday 7 February, 7pm
Dr Suhail Malik, Course leader in Postgraduate Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, will give a talk at the gallery about the exhibition.

Thursday 7 March, 7pm
Keith Tyson will give a talk at the gallery about his work.

TALK AT TATE MODERN

Friday 1 February, 6.30pm
Keith Tyson will be 'in conversation' with Jeremy Miller in the Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern.Tickets £6/£3 concessions, on 020 7887 8888.

South London Gallery
65 PECKHAM ROAD - LONDON - SE5 8UH
Admission is free
Opening times : Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Ilam to 6pm. Thursday Ilam to 7pm. Saturday and Sunday 2pm to 6pm. Closed Monday.

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