WASTESTATE//Curated by Julia Alvarez
Posted by BEARSPACE on 10.04.08
Paul Caton//Richard Ducker//Jorg Obergfell//Caroline Rothwell//Conrad VenturPrivate View: Thurs 1 May 6.30-8.30
Dates: 2 - 31 May
Hours: Wed-Sat 12.30-5.00pm
Wastestate brings together five artists whose work can be identified within the theme of rubbish & landscape. For this exhibition BEARSPACE will exhibit artists working in a range of media from watercolour to installation with materials as diverse as felt and concrete.
JMW Turner said when speaking about his industrial landscapes, "If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it."
In Wastestate these landscapes evolve, morph and are tangled with rubbish and demise. Like uncomfortable bedfellows, rubbish and landscape become hopelessly linked, creating a layered experience built with each debris intervention. This evolution is present in many of the artists work, almost predicting the victory of rubbish over landscape. This type of artwork allows us to add a new section to the history of landscape art and deconstruct the social framework that this new work is referencing.
