Alex Frost
dal 15/9/2004 al 30/10/2004
Segnalato da
15/9/2004
Alex Frost
The Changing Room, Stirling
1973 is a continuation of The Changing Room's ongoing programme, commissioning solo exhibitions by artists based in Scotland at significant points in their careers. The work in 1973 has been developed by Glasgow-based artist Alex Frost with our unique gallery space in mind.
1973
1973 is a continuation of The Changing Room's ongoing programme, commissioning solo exhibitions by artists based in Scotland at significant points in their careers. The work in 1973 has been developed by Glasgow-based artist Alex Frost with our unique gallery space in mind.
In recent years Frost has employed a range of materials and styles in his work, but these are always linked by his use of systematic working methods. 1973 presents new sculptures and drawings that continue his interest in a kind of impure or inbred Minimalism: creating a tension between the Minimalist tradition of modular repetition and more gestural qualities of the handmade.
1973 as well as being the artist's birth year is also an indicator- pointing to many of the references within this body of work. The key to this implied theme is in the selection of four framed drawings depicting scenes from the artist's studio, incidental or accidental moments in the making of other artworks e.g. a spillage, slides of previous work lying on a table. These operate like banal biographical sketches. The autobiographical imprint continues in a set of sleek ceramic vases shaped by a life-size template of the artist's profile. They are arranged on plinths and set to rotate imperceptibly slowly by hidden motors.
"The control that Alex Frost exerts over his sculpture betrays a desire to be machine-like as a maker. There are templates or patterns or plans to follow. His work is modular. Things are built up from a number of similar elements. There is repetition. The materials are tools. There is structure then surface. He builds then decorates. What emerges is a whole made up of smaller parts." from Idea Logic, or Self-made Machine Sculpture by Karla Black in the exhibition catalogue
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PUBLICATION LAUNCH AND FILM SCREENING
Thursday 28th October from 6pm
To coincide with the exhibition we are publishing a new book on Alex Frost. Priced at £5 the publication includes images from 1973 as well as previous work and a new essay by Karla Black. You are invited to join us at the publication launch at The Changing Room on 28th October at 6pm. This is followed by a screening Dance for Camera at Tolbooth, Stirling from 7.30pm. The programme of films is selected and introduced by Alex Frost and includes works by Oskar Schlemmer and Harald Kreutzberg.
ARTIST INFORMATION
Alex Frost was born in London in 1973 and lives and works in Glasgow. He graduated from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 1998 and has completed residencies at Spike Island, Bristol (2002) Royston Road, Glasgow (2001) and Grizedale, Cumbria (2000). Recent exhibitions include: Synth, Kunstraum B2, Leipzig, Germany; East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich; Alex Frost, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow and An American Conversation with Karla Black at Cooper Gallery, Dundee.
Gallery Open Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 5pm. Admission FREE
Exhibition supported by: Stirling Council, Scottish Arts Council and Hope Scott Trust
The Changing Room
contemporary art space
35 The Crawford Arcade
King Street
Stirling
FK8 1AX