David Risley Gallery
Copenhagen
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The Parergon and The Gutter
dal 5/12/2013 al 5/1/2014
Wed-Fri 12-17, Sat 11-15

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5/12/2013

The Parergon and The Gutter

David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen

This show originally came out of thinking about an essay by Jacques Derrida which argued against Kant's idea of the intrinsic nature of the work of art, a universal value of beauty. With Alex Da Corte, Martin Creed, Jose Davila, Sam Francis...


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Alex Da Corte, Martin Creed, Jose Davila, Sam Francis, Helen Frik, Ryan Gander, Poul Gernes, Paul Housley, Merlin James, J. F. Willumsen

This show originally came out of thinking about an essay by Jacques Derrida that I read 20 years ago and didn't understand and a conversation about comic strips which I did.

The Derrida essay (The Parergon, published in the 1987 volume "The Truth in Painting") argued against Kant's idea of the intrinsic nature of the work of art, a universal value of beauty. In those essays the words Ergon (the work) and Parergon (that which is supplementary to the work, i.e. the frame) are frequently used.

The Gutter is the gap between two frames in a comic strip. It is in this gap that time and meaning happen. In one frame we see a man walking towards a banana skin. In the next frame we see a man in a hospital bed. It is in the gap between the frames that we understand he slipped, hit his head, got picked up by an ambulance.

This show contains no examples of parergon. The frame is central to these works. It is inherent to their physicality and meaning, not an afterthought added to protect and display them. The frame in this context can be the revealed structure of a painting, the exhibition architecture and the society around it, or the journey that a sculpture makes through space. The frame can be physical, institutional, or metaphorical. The gallery is the gutter.

Opening Friday December 6. 17.00 - 20.00

David Risley Gallery
Bredgade 65, Copenaghen
Hours: Wed-Fri 12.00-17.00, Sat 11.00-15.00
Admission free

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Alex Da Corte
dal 13/5/2014 al 27/6/2014

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