Exhibition
Object not found
13 Oct 2009 – 8 Nov 2009
Cost of entry
free
Address
- 171 Deptford High Street
- London
- SE8 3NU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 453-188-53-47-225-199-177
- DLR: Deptford Bridge Station
Cabinets #7 ⢠Martin Westwood ⢠'Object not found'
About
'Object not found' by Martin Westwood is the seventh exhibition in the series 'Cabinets' which explores the working process of internationally renowned artists both emerging and established. 'Cabinets' is a unique series of exhibitions, which has as its overriding reference point, the Renaissance phenomenon 'The Cabinet of Curiosity', otherwise known as 'Wunderkammer'. The term was originally given to rooms displaying objects, antiquities, paintings and other eclectic ephemera from science and the arts and prefigures the birth of the Museum in Western art. Moreover these vitrines also left a spatial legacy credited with the development of Installation art.Within his installations, Martin Westwood addresses the world of commerce and it's mass-products. The habitual working place appears as a platform for investigation into artificial codes and their impact on individuals. Materials that he uses are often deprived of their accustomed environment such as newsprints, photocopies and map pins. Taken directly from a corporate setting they become a driving-force in re-defining their origins, where single elements merge and subvert one another in constant transformation. Systems that he explores are taken apart, recycled and suspended in states of inertia, leaving only a quiet, powerless echo behind.
Previous solo exhibitions include: 'Silt Inter Lace', The Approach, London; Art Now Project Space, Tate Britain; 'Angelus Novus', Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; 'Hard Pressed Flowers', The Approach, London; 'fatfinger (HAITCH, KAY, EKS)', Project Arts Centre, Dublin; 'A Seed is a Stone', The Approach, London; 'Blind Eyes Turning', 'Yesterday's Future', Fundacio la Caixa, Lleida, Spain. Group exhibitions include: The Sculpture Show, V22, London; Prospects and Interiors: Recent acquisitions of sculptors' drawings, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK; 'Reflections', Artuaca Kunsterfgoed Festival, Tongeren, Belgium; 'Wider Than The Sky', 117 Commercial Street, London; 'Dirty Pictures', The Approach, London; 'East of Eden', 14 Wharf Road, London; 'The Galleries Show', The Royal Academy, London; 'London Underground', Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan, 'Heart and Sou'l, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles; 'Limit less', Gallerie Krinzinger, curated by Matthew Higgs, Vienna.
Martin Westwood will also be showing at The Bloomberg Space as part of the COMMA series of exhibitions 14th ' 31st October.
Each 'Cabinets' exhibition will consist of three substantial, purpose-built vitrines. The artist's interaction with these generates a project, which, we hope, will uncover new territories of research previously unseen in their work. Furthermore, the cabinets' highly specific format suggests a particular form of audience engagement and approach, thus altering and expanding the works' viewing conditions. Accompanying the series will be a limited edition box set of printed matter, designed by 'Language of Form'. Pamphlets will accompany each show with a commissioned text written by Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley, founding Directors of the 'Museum of Installation' and co-authors of several seminal books on installation art. The next exhibition in the series will be a solo show by Tim Braden.