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JAMES ANGUS
JAMES ANGUS James Angus's exhibition had a clarity of form that reflected the tightness of the ideas behind the artist's work. By enacting a hypothetical scenario in virtual space, Angus came up with curious objects that represented a soccerball and basketball dropped from the cruising altitude of a 747, a reclining skyscraper arching its back, and a 19th century castle in double vision (or swishing its tail like a fish). Tweaking more familiar objects gave them a weird edge: like the not-quite-inside-out teapot. With such an intangible, computer-assisted design origin, Angus's presentation of these objects in the 'traditional' materials of bronze and plaster was also surprising. But the materiality of his works gave them special kinds of kinetic energy: the bronze basketball at the moment of impact; or the tensile flex of the perspex and plywood highrise. The largest work in the show by volume was also the lightest. The exhibition toured to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand 19 August to 1 October; and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 13 October to 12 November. The first of the EAF's colour poster-catalogues was produced to accompany the exhibition, with a text by Chris Chapman. |
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above: documentation from the exhibition 'JAMES ANGUS' |
image: James Angus | Documentation Photography by Alan Cruickshank |