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Stephen Willats
dal 24/5/2007 al 7/7/2007

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24/5/2007

Stephen Willats

MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

Person to Person, People to People. The exhibition provides an opportunity to engage with the breadth and integrity of Willats' practice and to recognise the remarkable influence his practice has had on a subsequent generation of artists.


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Person to Person, People to People

Since the early 1960s British artist Stephen Willats has been making socially engaged, multi-media art projects in areas and communities as diverse as tennis clubs, housing estates, tower blocks, art galleries and night clubs. This is Willats’ most significant and comprehensive exhibition in a public gallery in recent years and features one of his most ambitious recent commissions, 'Person to Person, People to People'. The exhibition provides an opportunity to engage with the breadth and integrity of Willats’ practice and to recognise the remarkable influence his practice has had on a subsequent generation of artists.

At the heart of Willats’ practice is the encouragement of the active participation in a work of art by collaborators and viewers, in order to stimulate an engagement in their own creative processes. Examples to be seen at Milton Keynes include New Visions (2006) made for the Barbican Centre in London, where viewers could explore the different ways three philosophers might have viewed certain environments and encounters, and From My Mind to Your Mind (2006) and Imaginary Journey (2006) where viewers could experience the surroundings of typical suburban outer London towns.

For Milton Keynes Gallery Willats has made a new work, People to People, Person to Person by collaborating with eleven residents from the Netherfield estate, Milton Keynes. Each of the residents used Super 8 film and instant cameras to record their differing observations on the same walk around the estate. The results of the project will be displayed in multi-channel wall mosaics and DVDs, both at the gallery and in a space on the estate, inviting viewers to construct their own meaning from the information presented, as if they too were participating in the walk.

To accompany these works, a number of Willats’ drawings will be on display. Willats employs the methods of cybernetic and philosophical models, information theory, systems analysis and semiotics in making his work, and a number of his working drawings will be shown. Alongside these can be seen drawings of modernist domestic objects, which bridge the gap between people’s domestic realities and the social organisational structures in which they live.

The exhibition catalogue includes contributions from Emily Pethick, Director of Casco Projects, Utrecht, and Chris Hammonds, Director of MOT, together with a conversation between Stephen Willats and Milton Keynes Gallery Director, Michael Stanley. A range of events will accompany the exhibition.

Stephen Willats was born in London in 1943. Solo exhibitions include 'From my mind to your mind', Victoria Miro Gallery, 2006; 'Messages from the Polemical City', Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2004; C'hanging Everything', South London Art Gallery, 1998; 'Museum Mosaic', Tate Liverpool, 1994; M'etaFilter and Related Works', Tate Gallery London, 1982; and '4 Inseln, in Berlin', National Gallery, Berlin, 1980. Group exhibitions include 'Art & The 60’s: This Was Tomorrow', Tate Britain, 2004, 'The Gap Show', Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, 2002; 'Protest and Survive', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 2000. His seminal work, 'Multiple Clothing', was re-presented at Tate Modern in April 2006.

Exhibition supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts and Milton Keynes Community Foundation

Preview: 25 May 2007, 5:30pm-8pm. All press and media welcome.

Milton Keynes Gallery
900 Midsummer Boulevard - Milton Keynes

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