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studio 1.1: HEY! NARCISSUS! - 9 Aug 2013 to 15 Sept 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Sarah McNulty,''Keyless (Bear Overhaul),' Oil on Linen, 120 x 150 cm)', 2013
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HEY! NARCISSUS! 9 August – 15 September (private views 8 and 22 Augustand 5 September) with Nigel Grimmer, Aindreas Scholz, Stephanie Moran, Kirsten Glass, Virginia Verran, Christopher Bond, Claudia Bose, Sarah McNulty, Glen Wild HEY! NARCISSUS! Called back from the brink, artists who bring the self-portrait into question: a question Narcissus can't hear, and Echo can only repeat the end of. Dialogue des sourds, indeed. Over six weeks the show will do its best to create its own conversation: evolving from clear self-absorption, aspects of autobiography presented (more or less) straight, moving step by tentative step through mythopoeia, creation of another (alter) ego, towards the area beyond, released from the self into pure form. Did someone mention Echo? Keeping mythopoeia at bay Inching along the transformative vectors between 'men and women'; personal history and story-telling; autobiography masquerading as fiction and fiction masquerading as autobiography. (In a self-indulgent digression there is a case for saying that 'Jean Santeuil', Proust's first tryout for arguably the greatest novel of the 20th Century, 'A La Recherche..' fails not simply because of youth and naivete but because the author feels the need to disguise autobiography as 'fiction' (for historical personal reasons which are clear) whereas the final masterpiece succeeds precisely for the opposite reason Proust discovers the modernist sophistication in presenting fiction as 'autobiography'). Invention as recorded fact – an echo of life. Isn't it always a Portrait of the Artist? the six-week sequence of artists and openings follows the rhyme-scheme below abc - Nigel, Aindreas, Stephanie (pv. 8 August) bcd - Aindreas, Stephanie, Kirsten (14 - 18 August) def - Kirsten, Virginia, Chris (pv. 22 August - 25 August) efg - Virginia, Chris, Claudia (28 August - 2 September) ghi - Claudia, Sarah, Glen (pv. 5 September - 8 September) hia - Sarah, Glen, Nigel (11 - 15 September) studio1.1 57a Redchurch St London E2 7DJ tubes: Shoreditch High St/Liverpool St/Old St bus: 8, 26, 35, 47, 48, 149, 344, 388 email: [email protected] tel: 07952 986696 web: http://www.studio1-1.co.uk open: Wednesday to Sunday 12-6 pm or by appointment |
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