Two exhibitions
dal 9/12/2004 al 3/4/2005
Segnalato da
9/12/2004
Two exhibitions
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
James Hutchinson combines an interest in drawing with his skills in manipulating images through computer software. His recent work is concerned with exploring what happens when late-night doodles using pencil on paper meet the latest cutting edge technology. Help Build the Ruins of Democracy: Bob and Roberta Smith are an artistic enterprise, sincere in their ambition to bring anarchy to people's perception of art through a conceptual yet playful approach to art and art making.
James Hutchinson
11 December - 20 February 2005
James Hutchinson combines an interest in drawing with his skills in manipulating images through computer software. His recent work is concerned with exploring what happens when late-night doodles using pencil on paper meet the latest cutting edge technology.
The content of the drawings comes from the artist's everyday bank of mental images - from magazines, films and art, to comic strips and children's television. Through a painstaking system of processing these images on screen, and the application (and misapplication) of software, Hutchinson removes his work from its humble origins, turning pixilated lines into gliding curves. The outcomes, which the artist also makes available on the world wide web, are presented at BALTIC in a variety of ways: plasma screens show over 1000 drawings in a matter of minutes, scaled up doodles are handpainted onto vast white gallery walls, and, in a large scale projection, Hutchinson collaborates with programmers to build interactive, selfgenerating architectures onto which hundreds more drawings are applied, creating continually evolving three-dimensional shapes.
A new monograph to accompany this exhibition is available in the BALTIC shop.
Opening 10 December - Preview 19.00-21.00
Image:
James Hutchinson
Image courtesy the artist
Drawn
Ground Floor
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Bob and Roberta Smith
11 December - 3 April 2005
Help Build the Ruins of Democracy
Level 2
Bob and Roberta Smith are an artistic enterprise, sincere in their ambition to bring anarchy to people's perception of art through a conceptual yet playful approach to art and art making.
Help Build the Ruins of Democracy features new and recent work. Eileen (2004) tells the real story of a friend, whose life has been shaped by a series of chance cultural collisions which appear both remarkable on one level but mundane on another. The text is mounted on a structure in the gallery which suggests some form of building. A second work, Conference in Bremen (2004), is shown on a plasma screen and mischievously questions notions of leadership and vehicles for decision making.
During January and February 2005, Bob and Roberta Smith will regularly work in the gallery, making a new sound piece for inclusion in this exhibition, to be recorded and produced at BALTIC. A second text panel work, entitled The Ruins of Democracy, will be developed in conjunction with visitors to the gallery who will be invited to contribute their own texts and help create new panels. Both new works will be added to the show by March.
A new publication about Bob and Roberta Smith is available from the BALTIC shop.
Baltic Centre
South Shore Road
Gateshead