Transmission – Private View
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- Hannah Rae Alton, Downward spyral, 2008
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- Tommy Grace, Dolum, 2009 and Nulluptat, 2010
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- Mark Selby, Lets sit down and talk, 2008
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- Rory Macbeth, “The Wanderer” by Franz Kafka, 2010
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- Rory Macbeth, Predictive Text, 2007-2010
TRANSMISSION
Hannah Rae Alton, Tommy Grace, Rory Macbeth, Mark Selby
curated by Monica Meriggi
Exhibition: 16 – 31 January 2010
Open: Thurs-Sun, 1-5pm
PV: Friday 15th January, 7-9pm with reading from “The Wanderer” by Rory Macbeth
Artists Talk: Saturday 23rd January, 7.30pm
TRANSMISSION brings together four artists using different media and approaches, who each share a particular interest in communication as dialogue and interpretation.
Whether it is the interpretation of one’s words, the translation of a text, or a reading and understanding of the world; the dynamics between intention and result and between transmission and reception are significant in the artists’ investigations of communication.
The artists’ common ground is an interest in what’s hidden behind the immediacy of signs. What is beyond our grasp and understanding: meaning. To be universally understood meaning has to be common and uniformed; it requires a conventional acceptance.
The critique of this common meaning that we could call “truth” is carried out by the artists in different ways. Their differences are as important as their similarities. Their differences show the rhizomatic nature of the truth – of each truth.
TRANSMISSION means then a creative process of interpretation rather than assimilation of unified information. It is the capability to create personal meanings and understandings.
By playing with the visibility of the sign and the invisibility of significance, art can expose our fragile being and the tragicomic failure of the search for a higher and universal truth.
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Press Release at Transmission_PR
Monica Meriggi
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