Art+Mountains
dal 18/9/2002 al 1/11/2002
Segnalato da
Neal Beggs
Herbert Brandl
Kate Bright
Stuart Croft
Jason Davidge
Peter DoiJohn Dugger
John Frankland
Hamish Fulton
Tim Gardner
Vidya Gastaldon
Brian Griffiths
Ilana Halperin
Sophie von Hellerman
Chantel Joffe
Andrew Mania
Masakatsu Kondo
Henri Krokatsis
David Medalla
Mariele Neudecker
Jean Odermatt
Dan Shipsides
David Thorpe
Kerri Sellens
Zoe Walker & Marijke van Warmerdam
Bruce Haines
Paul Claydon
18/9/2002
Art+Mountains
The Alpine Club, London
Art+Mountains is an exhibition of contemporary art in the unique setting of The Alpine Club and includes painting, drawing, sculpture and film by twenty-six international artists looking at the relationship between representations of mountain landscapes and our actual experiences of them.
ART+MOUNTAINS
conquistadors of the useless
Exhibition dates: 20 September - 1 November 2002.
Open: Wed-Fri, 12pm - 6pm, free admission
Preview: Thursday 19 September, 6pm - 10pm
curated by Bruce Haines and Paul Claydon
Art+Mountains is an exhibition of contemporary art in the unique setting of
The Alpine Club and includes painting, drawing, sculpture and film by
twenty-six international artists looking at the relationship between
representations of mountain landscapes and our actual experiences of them.
Appropriately, 2002 is the International Year of Mountains. The impact of
technology, urbanism and mass tourism on the wilderness has made the pursuit
of hardcore adventure and the sublime increasingly fruitless occupations.
The Alpine Club represents over 150 years of mountaineering history,
documenting the often-estranged relationships between rival philosophers,
writers and climbers for whom mountaineering was in some way the embodiment
of the search for enlightenment.
“Climbing is involved, nervy, tactile and committed. Yet it is
contradictory, unnatural even, in that it often avoids the path of least
resistance with no more reason to support it than the facile feint of
‘because it is there…’†(Paul Claydon)
Art+Mountains includes Neal Beggs, Herbert Brandl, Kate Bright, Stuart
Croft, Jason Davidge, Peter Doig, John Dugger, John Frankland, Hamish
Fulton, Tim Gardner, Vidya Gastaldon, Brian Griffiths, Ilana Halperin,
Sophie von Hellerman, Chantel Joffe, Andrew Mania, Masakatsu Kondo, Henri
Krokatsis, David Medalla, Mariele Neudecker, Jean Odermatt, Dan Shipsides,
David Thorpe, Kerri Sellens, Zoe Walker & Marijke van Warmerdam. Many of the
artists have made new work for the exhibition.
Notes for Editors: for press information or images please contact:
Bruce Haines, tel: +44 (0) 7989 413387
Bruce Haines is a curator who has organised many exhibitions in the UK and
Europe. Paul Claydon is co-founder of arts collective Inventory and has
exhibited at Tate Modern, ICA and The Whitechapel, London.
Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Swiss Embassy, Switzerland
Tourism and the Ski Club of Great Britain.
The Alpine Club, 55 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3QT tel +44 207 613 0755