Surface Dwellers
First exhibition at my new home…
“This month Surface Gallery presents its first in house exhibition of 2010: Surface Dwellers, an impromptu group exhibition showcasing the work of our many surface inhabitants. The exhibition seeks to bring together practitioners from the recently opened studios and our team of devoted gallery volunteers. The exhibition will document a diverse range of activity, from works created within the gallery walls to works created or conceived beyond them.
The exhibition explores notions of ‘encounter’ and ‘participation’ as well as the exchange of thoughts and ideas. The launch of our studios opens up an exciting new space for our organisation, a territory we wish to share and celebrate with the public. Our studio Artists are brought together simply by a need or desire to inhabit a space for creative production, our volunteers in turn are motivated by a desire to challenge themselves and to share an interest or passion in Art. It is this desire that generates exchange, our volunteers and artists are brought together through a shared will to develop and explore, a conception that lies at the very heart of the visual arts, an objective will to participate in culture outside of direct economic benefit.”
Not Yeti Bookshop 2009 (Surface Gallery 2010)
Posted: June 1st, 2010 under .
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Kläng is my new favourite word. It means Sound or Sonority in German. Kandinsky used it to mean resonance, a sort of vibrating energy that he tried to fill his paintings with. It can also mean tone, tune or chord. It’s such a beautiful onomatopoeic word. KLÄNG! It makes me think of somebody dropping pans on the kitchen floor at my old workplace or a ‘man walks into a bar’ slapstick comedy situation. It seems like it should always be written in capital, it demands attention. It is noisy, it is sound. I’d like to imagine my work has a sense of KLÄNG about it, an impact on the viewer.