Prologue 2013
Preview: Friday 31 May
6-8pm
Summerhall I 1 Summerhall Place I Edin I EH9 1QH
Exhibition dates: 1 June - 19 July 2013
Open daily: 11am-6pm
Join us for the four preview exhibitions by this year's selected Prologue Artists, Alexander Storey Gordon, Alex Tobin, Tim Sandys and selected Curator, Dane Sutherland.
Prologue is a project that awards three emerging visual artists and one emerging curator, a significant visual art exhibition and professional development support. This year the exhibitions will be realised at Summerhall. Through an open application Prologue identifies, supports and showcases some of the most exciting practitioners working in the Visual Arts in Scotland.
Supported by the Prologue panel, the group individually explored developmental aspects of their practice during the six month project. The 2013 Prologue panelists were; Alexandra Ross, Colin Greenslade, Janine Matheson, John Beagles, Sorcha Carey & Steven Cox.
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Alexander Storey Gordon
Headless
1 June - 19 July
Headless is an HD film produced as part of Prologue. The film abstractly explores processes of reflection and introspection through a succession of allegorical images of death, prophesy, ritual and capital. Making illusion to the humanist imagery of Caravaggio's self portraits and the painting style of Tenebrism that created the image via a dramatic illumination of the subject, the work plays with the conventions of filmic narrative, presenting a film that never comes to rest on any one set of meaning.
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Dane Sutherland
R-U-Dead-Yet?
1 June - 19 July
Beagles & Ramsay, Ash Reid, Head Gallery, Benedict Drew, Michelle Hannah, Robin Mackay, Plastique Fantastique.
Noise is all signals on and off. If “silence is assent,” then noise testifies to that which is deemed unwanted, exceeding the normative limits and expectations of behaviour, social interaction and cultural production by disrupting conventional structures – rendering its negative character as something excessive, destructive, with a viral and contingent potency. Noise is the system-killer that provokes a 'pestilential creativity.' Noise is manifest in diverse practices, in their persistent negativity, in their formal recalcitrance, in their cosmological excess, in their denial of service.
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Sandys
Hardtack
1 June - 19 July
Tim Sandys' new work expands on themes around the 'nuclear experience' and the transition from fossil fuels to nuclear fission and fusion events. Using novel materials, his work is an intuitive and structural expression of the industrial materiality of energy production and transmission. Whether referencing centrifuges, fuel-rods, reactor cores or leaking coolant, wood, iron, petroleum jelly and water are among the materials allowed to dictate the finish of this work, without sentimentality or proselytising.
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