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3 - 27 October 1996: TO MAKE A WORK OF TIMELESS ART: NO 2 Gail Hastings More poetries, this time those of space and mapping. Initially looking like an installation firmly grounded in the histories of minimalism, upon closer inspection the work seems to flicker between the now and enlightenment and pre-enlightenment uses and articulations of space and memory. A polite Dante making plans with Alexander Pope informed by the systems of Giordano Bruno. The satisfaction of the work lies not only in its subtle articulations of colour and space in the elements and their positioning and the use of the gallery space, but in its claim to the articulation of other models of art and experience: thus achieving the immaculately contemporary and the resolutely old fashioned simultaneously, and constructing a work that is both reticent and ambitious. The front part of the gallery contained objects that referenced both sculpture and furniture, as well as water colour images/plans and texts that referenced the physicality of the exhibition and at the same time placed them within a metaphorical context and the narratives of poetic space. The second half utilised a trompe l'oeil to lead the viewer back via what initially appeared to be a seamless blue line at eye level into a maze like recess at the further end of the gallery. |
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