John Wood and Paul Harrison
dal 29/4/2003 al 21/6/2003
Segnalato da
29/4/2003
John Wood and Paul Harrison
f a projects, London
A six-monitor work in the main gallery will show thirty-six individual videos. Each shot in the same constructed set, the works offer a sense of narrative continuity between them, and unite the separate monitors to form a single sculptural whole.
Since their first collaboration in 1993, John Wood and Paul Harrison have become an important voice in British video art. The exhibition of their work Twenty-Six (Drawing and Falling Things) at the Chisenhale Gallery in London in 2002, which subsequently toured to the NGCA, Sunderland and the Newlyn Art Gallery proposed a distinctive visual and conceptual language, developed and refined through nearly a decade of making and exhibiting work internationally.
Wood and Harrison's videos take as their basic structural component the now outmoded form of the single television monitor. Within its confines the artists themselves, either together or individually, act out a series of concise, witty and self-evidently futile actions. These actions, while offering more than a passing nod to Nauman and to Burden, are as much about form as performance. They investigate the nature of the three-dimensional space in which they are made, the two-dimensional space in which they are shown and the space of the imagination in which they are perceived.
For this exhibition, Wood and Harrison present a major new work which dramatically extends this project. A six-monitor work in the main gallery will show thirty-six individual videos. Each shot in the same constructed set, the works offer a sense of narrative continuity between them, and unite the separate monitors to form a single sculptural whole. Alongside this major work other monitor and projection pieces will be shown, along with preparatory drawings and iris-prints.
Current and recent exhibitions include the British Council exhibition Still Life, in Santiago, Chile, touring to Venezuela, Argentina and Columbia, Luton at Mercer Union, Toronto, The Gwangju Biennale, Korea and Monitor: Volume 1 at Gagosian Gallery, New York. In Spring 2003 Wood and Harrison will participate in the exhibition A Century of Artists Film in Britain at Tate Britain. Their work is represented in major public and private collections in Great Britain and Internationally.
Opening 30 April
f a projects
1-2 Bear Gardens SE1 9ED
London