Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing
dal 12/2/2009 al 27/3/2009
Segnalato da
Francis Alys
Iran do Espirito Santo
Callum Innes
Peter Liversidge
Alexander & Susan Maris
Cornelia Parker
Bob Smith
Roberta Smith
12/2/2009
Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
The exhibition takes its title from a film by Francis Alys in which the artist pushes a large block of ice through the streets of Mexico City and features work by Francis Alys, Iran do Espirito Santo, Callum Innes, Peter Liversidge, Alexander & Susan Maris and Cornelia Parker. Ingleby Gallery's quarterly public art project continues with Bob and Roberta Smith's installation. The billboard is located on the end wall of Ingleby Gallery in the heart of Edinburgh.
The exhibition features work by Francis Alÿs, Iran do Espirito Santo, Callum Innes, Peter Liversidge, Alexander & Susan Maris and Cornelia Parker. Ingleby Gallery's new exhibition, Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, takes its title from a film by Francis Alÿs in which the artist pushes a large block of ice through the streets of Mexico City.
Francis Alÿs: Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing) (1997)
It is a film about transformation - literally as the ice melts… something to nothing - but it is also about the futility of human endeavour, or, looked at another way, the poetry of pointlessness. It is an epic kind of uselessness that turns his apparently meaningless effort into an almost heroic event… nothing to something. Transformation, poetic by definition but also perhaps a little subversive, is the theme of this exhibition. It takes different forms: some more obvious than others; some a little violent; some a little funny, but the idea of transformation is somewhere behind all the works on show.
Billboard for Edinburgh: BOB AND ROBERTA SMITH
Ingleby Gallery's quarterly public art project continues with Bob and Roberta Smith's installation. The billboard is located on the end wall of Ingleby Gallery in the heart of Edinburgh. Every three months a new artist is invited to create a work for the 10ft x 13ft billboard site. This, the third work in the Billboard for Edinburgh series, was unveiled last week and will be on display until 6 May.
Each image is also realised as an original limited edition print, signed and numbered by the artist (image below).
Billboard for Edinburgh prints are available individually, priced at £350 + VAT (unframed). Copies of billboard prints by Mark Wallinger and Rachel Whiteread are still available. The set of four prints (Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread, Bob and Roberta Smith and Cerith Wyn Evans) can be purchased at a special price.
The next four artists - whose work will feature on the billboard site between August 2009 and May 2010 - will be announced in April. For more information or to buy a print, please email billboard@inglebygallery.com or telephone Ingleby Gallery on +44 (0) 131 556 4441.
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