Exhibition

Material Stories

9 Apr 2022 – 2 Jun 2022

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
Closed
Wednesday
Closed
Thursday
16:00 – 19:00
Friday
16:00 – 19:00
Saturday
11:00 – 15:30
Sunday
Closed

Special hours

09-Apr-2022
16:00 – 21:00

Free admission

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Groupshow curated by Helen Carey with Patrick Baumüller, Elaine Byrne, Cecilia Bullo, Ingrid Cogne, Marie Farrington

About

Material Stories

‘Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.’
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Illuminations, 1955, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt A.M.)
Benjamin championed the idea of the image being available to as wide an audience as possible. For people who were unlikely to visit works in a museum or gallery, they could become familiar with the image through photography and reproduction. This democratisation of access to ideas and form was exhilarating of course, which then progressed through moving image and television, and from there
the internet gives an access that seems infinite.
During the pandemic, technology further provided the connection to the worlds of culture and art while isolated, was embraced. Notions of this ‘coming together’ was wrapped up in the technological revolution taking place as an explosion of potential. However, when restrictions lifted, the live event was yearned for, the in-person became laden with freedom and autonomy. If we just examine the basis for the exhibition to be experienced, it was to re-assert the need for physical presence.


This group show Material Stories at galerie michaela stock emphasises five artists engaged in the materiality of making or working with objects, in placing them in the gallery, thinking of gallery scale and character, and how the works relate to other work on display. Their separateness is clear. Their connection palpable.

For further information please visit our website!

http://www.galerie-stock.net/en/exhibitions/preview/1468-material-stories-curated-by-helen-carey

CuratorsToggle

Helen Carey

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Patrick Baumüller

Marie Farrington

Ingrid Cogne

Cecilia Bullo

Elaine Byrne

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