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DESIRING
NECESSITIES
2 May – 20 June
2009
Susanne Bürner,
Marcelline Delbecq, Patrizio Di Massimo,
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Cyprien
Gaillard, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres,
João Onofre, Olivia Plender, Jamie
Shovlin, Matt Stokes, Conrad Ventur
Exhibition
Guide
Curators'
Interview
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For a generation growing up through the 1980s and 90s,
do the ideals of previous eras hold special significance?
And if a search for idealism characterises the decades
just passed, where will we find the values to react in
today’s global crisis?
Desiring Necessities presents twelve
emerging international artists who explore past iconic
moments in culture. The revolutionary spirit often attributed
to historic events in art, film and music can attain near-heroic
status, yet only exists
through second-hand experience. The artists within Desiring
Necessities test the strength and relevance of
this desire to ‘live the original’, exploring
re-enactment, appropriation and irony, and blurring fact
with fiction.
Works featured include Iain Forsyth & Jane
Pollard’s remake of an infamous video documenting
The Cramps’ concert at Napa Mental Institute, California,
1979; Susanne Bürner’s 50,000,000
CAN'T BE WRONG, replaying slowed footage of Elvis
Presley fans (while never revealing the man himself);
and Mario Garcia Torres’ semi-fictitious
chronology of cinematic dates, Monochronic Film on
a Polychronic Story. |
Participating artists: Susanne Bürner
(b. Germany, 1970), Marcelline Delbecq
(b. France, 1977), Patrizio Di Massimo
(b. Italy, 1983), Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
(b. England, 1972 & 1973), Cyprien Gaillard
(b. France, 1980), Ryan Gander (b. England,
1976), Mario Garcia Torres (b. Mexico,
1975), João Onofre (b. Portugal,
1976), Olivia Plender (b. England, 1977),
Jamie Shovlin (b. England, 1978),
Matt Stokes (b. England, 1973) and Conrad
Ventur (b. USA, 1977).
Desiring Necessities is a John
Hansard Gallery exhibition curated by
Ilaria Gianni. |
Elsewhere,
Cyprien Gaillard allegorises the failure of postmodernity
in his bleak film-work The Lake Arches; João
Onofre galvanises young Lisbon models into words
of conviction, quoting Rossellini’s 1949 film ‘Stromboli’;
Matt Stokes explores the 1980s Cumbrian ‘cave-rave’
scene; Patrizio di Massimo examines the
cycle of Libyan empires and dictatorships in Oae,
a multi-layered three film installation; and Conrad
Ventur re-stages Andy Warhol’s screen tests,
forty years on.
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Free
Exhibition Publication download
A special free publication is available in the Gallery
throughout the exhibition, featuring a newly-commissioned
essay by author Michael Bracewell, texts
by curator Ilaria Gianni and Stephen
Foster, John Hansard Gallery
and contributions from each artist. The publication is
also free to download from our website: Desiring
Necessities Exhibition Guide.pdf
Curators' Interview
John Hansard Gallery Director Stephen Foster
in conversation with Ilaria Gianni, Curator,
Desiring Necessities.
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Images (top to bottom):
Susanne Bürner
50,000,000 CAN’T BE WRONG
Digital video; 6 min. 24 sec. looped and stage, dimensions
variable, 2006
Courtesy Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch,Berlin
Mario Garcia Torres
Monochronic Film on a Polychronic Story
Film 16mm, black and white, 2007
Courtesy Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels
João Onofre
Casting
video, colour, sound, 12 mins 59 secs, 2000
Courtesy Galleria Franco Noero, Turin.
Collection of the artist
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
File Under Sacred Music, 2003
Production still. Photo: Alison Wonderland
Courtesy the artists and Kate McGarry, London
Patrizio Di Massimo
Oae
Three channel video, 2009
Courtesy the artist |
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