Alex Hartley
dal 25/7/2007 al 20/10/2007
Segnalato da
25/7/2007
Alex Hartley
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Hartley is a British artist whose work confronts our experience and understanding of the built and natural environments. Working primarily with photography, though often incorporating it into sculpture and installation, he occupies a shifting set of roles from photographer and architectural historian to rambler and mountaineer, offering an original analysis of architecture and its relationship to landscape.
Alex Hartley is a British artist whose work confronts our experience and understanding of the built and natural environments. Working primarily with photography, though often incorporating it into sculpture and installation, Hartley occupies a shifting set of roles from photographer and architectural historian to rambler and mountaineer, offering an original analysis of architecture and its relationship to landscape.
The exhibition brings together a significant body of existing and new work. It begins on the façade of the building, on which Hartley will make a new work that particularly exemplifies his highly individual approach. He is interested in ‘buildering’ (climbing on buildings), and will clad The Fruitmarket Gallery in an exactly scaled mage of itself, marked with the various routes he has climbed up the façade.
Inside the Gallery, other new work extends the possibilities of climbing as a metaphorical and actual approach to the built as well as the natural environment, with photographs of the artist tackling a variety of buildings in Los Angeles, London and various sites around Scotland. These extreme explorations of the relationship an individual might form with a building are complemented by other photographs, sculpture and installations which offer a sustained interrogation of architecture as something which, created to provide a physical and conceptual context for individuals in and against the landscape, exerts an inevitable influence on that context.
The Fruitmarket Gallery is a not-for-profit organisation and a Scottish Charity (registration number SC005576), programming national, international and touring exhibitions by leading artists and emerging talent. The Gallery is ‘Foundation Funded’ by the Scottish Arts Council for up to 70% of its running costs and must fundraise to support its world-class exhibitions, education and publishing programmes.
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