Wednesday 11th May 2011. 6.00 – 9.00 pm
Opening reception and publication launch, featuring
commissioned texts by Glen Neath and Pascaline
Monier
12th May 2011 – 19th June 2011
Open Thursday to Sunday, 12noon - 6pm, and by
appointment
Saturday 11th June 2011. 7.00 – 11.00pm
'According to a chord of wood'.
Open forum, round table discussion with guests to include:
a cardinal, a carpenter, a sinner and a
judge.
In a mighty green landscape a seed was saved from a juicy ripe fruit. The seed
remained dormant and fertile until placed in a dead mans mouth, and in the
fullness of the moment this seed quite naturally grew into a tree, which was
latterly and laterally planked. Thick planks, like beams, True
Wood.
The Legend of the True Cross is a traditional story, popularly regarded as
historical but arguably unauthenticated, which runs the full course of time as
we understand it; and which provides for us a tangible link to the
‘garden’. True Wood is thus the arbiter and mediator for
legend.
For the next exhibition at Campbell Works, Neil Taylor explores the haptic
resonance of True Wood by denoting the devotional fetishisation laid onto the
legend’s surviving artefacts, these splinters forming manifestations of a
kind of sexualised desire in which gratification becomes linked, by an abnormal
degree, to the veneration of a physical device. Likening this fervour to the
behaviour and pilgrimages found within the contemporary art world, True Wood
invites us to explore the question ‘what do we want these objects to do
for
us’?
True Wood, will showcase a significant body of new work including painting,
printmaking and sculpture. This installation extends Taylor’s interests in
the curatorial interpretation of cultural artefacts, and the critical analysis
of social conditioning and
assumption.
The show will occupy all three galleries at Campbell Works, and be accompanied
by a full colour publication with commissioned texts by Glen Neath and Pascaline
Monier.
For more info visit www.campbellworks.org
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