15/12/2003
Final Cuts
Union, London
Katharina Grosse, Bernhard Martin, Marco Papa, Roberta Silva. Final Cuts presents the work of four artists who employ different elements of a filmic directional approach, thereby giving the existing gallery space a different aesthetic and conceptual configuration. The distinct areas presented by each provide the focus points of a network or passage through which the visitor will travel.
Katharina Grosse, Bernhard Martin, Marco Papa, Roberta Silva
Curated by Milovan Farronato
Final Cuts presents the work of four artists who employ different elements of
a filmic directional approach, thereby giving the existing gallery space a
different aesthetic and conceptual configuration. The distinct areas
presented by each provide the focus points of a network or passage through
which the visitor will travel. The interrelationship of the exhibits causes
the visitor to assume the role of actor within a scene as he journeys from
frame to frame. While the works displayed are not overtly derivative of film
and its processes, the cumulative effect of the experience is informed by
subtle references to the language of filmic code or cinematic experience.
Through the energy of the colours and the techniques employed in her work,
Katharina Grosse submerges the visitor/actor within the filmic experience. Her
site-specific installation overwhelms in its colour and scale, superceding the
architectural structure of the space. Her work contextualises the 'plot' and
acts as the logical consequence of an experience in which one is not conscious
of all the previously combined events.
Marco Papa's installation functions as a borderline that must be crossed in
order to reach the second part of the show. It invites and challenges the
visitor to become a part of it and, by accepting his invitation to enter into
the next space, the individual is cast as actor Âthereby becoming an integral
part of the exhibition. Those who choose to continue will leave a concrete
trace of their action, others will end their experience spontaneously, and can
not participate in the entirety of the plot.
Bernhard Martin presents a fictitious and changeable set, an interior painting
that can alter its appearance according to the requirements of the script. It
could equally be an office or the corner of a night club  everything depends
on the contextualisation and on the spatial vision of the artist. The work is
the stage on which the actor can perform.
Roberta Silva exceeds every distinction of media; without a projector or
screen her work becomes the final realisation of the 'film¹. The powerful
light used inundates the space at regular intervals nullifying and deleting
any images potentially contained on the film, any plots potentially developed
in the script. The search for the enigmatic source of the light will make the
participants more aware of their cinematic experience.
All the works included in the exhibition act as points along a carefully
proscribed route, presenting a 'film' in four acts. The passage from the
Katharina Grosse's 'glorious technicolor' through to Roberta Silva's blinding
emptiness gives a sense of an unfolding narrative that can be completed only
through the actions of the viewer.
PRIVATE VIEW 16/12/03 6 - 9PM
The next exhibition at Union will be 'To Delphi' by Rut Blees Luxemberg which
will run from March  May 2004. We are also pleased to announce the first solo
show of Tobias Lehner at Union Projects which will run from February  March
2004.
For more information please contact +44 (0)20 7928 3388
OPENING HOURS
MONDAY-FRIDAY 10 AM-6 PM
SATURDAY 12-5 PM
UNION
57 EWER STREET
LONDON SE1 0NR
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