7 Dec 1995 - 21 Jan 1996

ANTI-NET Andrew Osborne
I SAY A FLOWER! Michael Graf

This was another partnership curated by the artists rather than the space: Osborne feeling that his work would generate synchronicities with that of Graf. Andrew Osborne comes from what could be loosely called a 'craft' practice, whilst Graf from a 'fine' arts practice. Osborne's objects in the exhibition were large cases made out of wood supporting an integral glass case. These contained bicycle wheels. A magnifying viewing screen was mounted in the casing in front of a series of photographs on the rim of the wheel. By pulling out a drawer in the lower half of the casing, a pully system creaked into action, causing the wheel to turn and animating the images as they passed by the screen, inventing a technology for the presentation of narrative in time, as if the cinema had never been invented. The works of Michael Graf also played with ideas of narrative, with long arrangements of panels forming friezes of sequential images. The component images themselves were drawn from diverse and various sources: David, Freidrich, Redon, Matisse, Fairweather for example. The meanings and reasons for conjunction were left opaque by the artist, forcing the viewer to generate stratagems for meaning in the work.