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Graham Reid

Elizabeth Rimington

SEE IT HEAR
21 - 26 May 2007
12:00 - 18:00 daily or by appointment
Private View: Wednesday 23 May 2007 18:45 - 21:00

Graham Reid and Elizabeth Anne Rimmington

SEE IT HEAR is an exhibition of automatic portraits, sound generators, diagrams, maps and piano compositions, created using a variety of pre-determined organisational structures. Information is obsessively recycled, examined and reconfigured, to create work that shifts between the seen and the heard.

Reid makes interactive objects that enable the audience to take part in his investigations. They include a ball that, when rolled turns the objects it contacts into a microphone and broadcasts this signal as a radio station. The objects and drawings are concerned with the sonic properties of materials, producing site-specific results.

Rimmington’s drawings are constructed, predetermined and meticulously planned. Data is condensed through a cipher or formula and axonometrically mapped. Every element of the work is directly affected by the time at which it is drawn and is bound explicitly to the rules throughout. Piano compositions derived from each drawing are on display, along with her book, ‘Working Drawings, Calculations and Records’.

ELDDUP
1ST + 2ND June 2007
The Sassoon Gallery is proud to present ‘elddup’; two free contemporary dance performances on the 1st and 2nd June.

elddup is a chance for the public to experience contemporary dance in an unusual landscape and is a piece of dance that reacts to and involves the space that the performers and audience are in. The choreography will draw from the designs, shapes and forms of the architectural buildings and structures in the immediate area. These ideas will then aid the performers on their journey to the gallery.

elddup will offer the audience a unique opportunity to see contemporary dance at any angle, height or proximity that they choose.

elddup. 3 girls. 3 buckets.

Audience members are required to meet promptly at 7.00pm at Bar Story where they will be escorted to the performance.

BEN ASHTON, THE DECONSTRUCTION OF ILLUSION

The Sassoon Gallery is proud to present the forthcoming show by Ben Ashton ‘ The Deconstruction of Illusion’. Currently studying MA Fine Art at the Slade, Ashton is concerned with the deconstruction of illusionist techniques employed by the Renaissance Artists.
His practice operates in three stages, transferring the 2-D image into a realised 3-D form and then reproduced in 2-Dimensional form in its final stage.
Occupied by depth and trickery, Ashton expands the process of looking and recreating works and subsequently methods used by Old Masters. By rigorously breaking down and reassembling the constructed patterns weaved together in an image like Holbein’s ‘The Ambassadors’ he seeks to discover the techniques of producing a ‘masterpiece’.
The enquiries made by Ashton can be seen to trace humanity’s long-term relationship with both fabricating and revealing the constructs of illusion. Utilising ‘The Ambassadors’ anamorphic skull as a platform to investigate patterns of perception, Ashton’s show at The Sassoon Gallery will recreate the painting by staging the image and recording it via a cameraobscura. The performative and investigative elements implemented by Ashton will involve him
reconstructing the image in its differing stages, day-by-day. Time sensitive in its execution, Ashton will be working to ‘stage’ the reality of the 2-D painting by transposing it into a 3-D performance, thus enquiring into the processes of deconstructing and reconstructing illusion.

CHARLESWORTH, LEWANDOWSKI + MANN
title of exhibition to be confirmed
13.08.07 - 31.08.07
Private View: 18.08.07(6-9pm)

Charlesworth, Lewandowski and Mann have developed a practise that, through a mixed discipline, seeks to provide an ongoing commentary upon contemporary models of heroism whilst investigating the social, political and historical backdrops that such figures dwell in.