Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, Installation view “Everything Made Bronzeâ€, 16mm film installation, Satellite Gallery, Nagoya, Japan. August 2013. Courtesy the artists.
Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone
Everything Made Bronze
9 – 19 August 2013
at Satellite Gallery,
Aichi University of the Arts, Nagoya
(Concurrent exhibition with the Aichi Triennale 2013)
Everything Made Bronze makes compelling use of one of the most renowned of architect Carlo Scarpa’s buildings, the Gipsoteca plaster-cast gallery in the Museo Canova, in Possagno, Northern Italy.
Shot using a static camera, the film follows the play of light in the Gipsoteca over a number of days as it produces a constantly fluid and changing environment for the appreciation of Canova’s plaster-casts and small-scale terracotta maquettes.
In the Gipsoteca, a small gallery designed without artificial lighting, the extraordinary environment suggests poise, stillness and undisturbed contemplation. However, the nearby Dolomite mountains produce sudden changes in the weather, and the daylight – on which the gallery relies – is in constant flux as the sun is veiled in cloud or suddenly reappears to bath the space in a warm, gilded luminescence. [read the full text here]
Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone
Ellard and Johnstone have collaborated since 1993. Their work is a particular and highly subjective method of investigation into the conventions and effects of the representation of architectural space in cinema. Since 2007, they have worked exclusively in 16mm film. They have exhibited internationally in museums and galleries including Tate Liverpool; Centre Georges Pompidou; Van Alen Institute, NYC; and Chicago Architecture Foundation.
Graham Ellard is Professor of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Stephen Johnstone is Reader in Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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Satellite Gallery
Aichi University of the Arts
3F, 3-21-18 Nishiki, Naka-ku,
Nagoya, Aichi, 460-0003
Japan
aichi-fam-u.ac.jp
Opening hours: 11h00 – 18h30
Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, Everything Made Bronze, 2013. 16mm film still. Courtesy the artists.
Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, Everything Made Bronze, 2013. 16mm film still. Courtesy the artists.
Graham Ellard & Stephen Johnstone, Everything Made Bronze, 2013. 16mm film still. Courtesy the artists.