Chris Cornish
dal 16/3/2005 al 3/4/2005
Segnalato da
16/3/2005
Chris Cornish
Beaconsfield, London
Lightsilver. The artist works in virtual reality. Trained as a painter, exploration of architectural and volumetric space resurfaced to feed new digital activity. Recent works toy with aspects of spectacle and reality, employing the strategies of Game Play
Lightsilver
24 February  8 May 2005
Thursday- Sunday 12-6pm
Mark Dean, Peter Collis, Chiara Pirito, Chris Cornish, susan pui san lok, Mattias Härenstam, João Seguro, Zineb Sedira, Semiconductor
*Previews on consecutive Wednesdays until 8 May
Chris Cornish
17 March - 3 April
arena_01 2005
DVD Â Colour - Continuous
Chris Cornish works in virtual reality. Trained as a painter, exploration of architectural and volumetric space resurfaced to feed new digital activity. Starting with a basic room, his practice has led him through the adaptation of computer games to current explorations of computer enhanced terrain.
Recent works toy with aspects of spectacle and reality, employing the strategies of Game Play.
Painterly concerns with the relationship between 'figure' and 'ground', and a striving to suggest a Universal order behind things, are evident throughout.
Subject matter is preoccupied with the traces of conflict and decay within nature: desolated military installations and training sites, the simulated wars of gaming environments.
The new work for Lightsilver frees itself from the weight of hardware and architecture, becoming airborne with a replication of the finest skies in the English landscape tradition.
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth -- it is the truth which conceals that there is none. Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations, from Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, ed. Mark Poster (Stanford; Stanford University Press, 1988), pp.166-184.
Lightsilver explores the physical, conceptual and historical impact of the landscape tradition on the ideas of contemporary artists. Territory that has been conventionally explored through other mediums is here broadly extended to the moving image. An evolving montage of projections links the cinematic tradition of vista-making with the metaphoric potential of an age-old genre  the appearance of that portion of land which the eye can view at once. Nine artists rotate new commissions across three spaces, each entering the sequence on one screen before proceeding to the next the following week. Every fresh work has an impact on the triptych, asserting its presence and shifting the kaleidoscope before the next incoming piece changes interpretation again.
Preview Wednesday 16 March 6-9pm
Beaconsfield
22 Newport Street
London