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The absent ingredient: presence within absence

4 Oct 2016

Event times

7pm - 10pm

Cost of entry

free

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The Exchange is exited to invite you to a night of critical thinking and discussion about the book as as an object, a text, a medium and the greatest invention ever created!

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The Exchange is pleased to invite you to ‘The absent ingredient: presence within absence’ exhibition and artist talk, on Tuesday 4th of October, 7pm at The Exchange, Brunswick East, Unit 3D Stamford Works, Gillett Street Dalston N16 8JH. 

Artist pd will be presenting the latest piece of his series ‘By the book’, a conceptual art sequence, which stands as a tribute to the book as an object, a text, a medium and the greatest invention ever created.

‘The absent ingredient’, a copy of which resides permanently at the Exchange; it is an open ended body of work based on deconstructed books and dedicated to artistic talent, an attempt to visualise it and capture its essence.

Juxtaposed alongside the elements currently comprising ‘By the book’ series, ‘The absent ingredient’ will be used as a point of departure for a conversation with the audience on a historical overview of the book from a critical and media theory perspective and how it ultimately keeps shaping our perception of the world even nowadays. The discussion will be focusing on the author-text-audience triangle and its endless fight for meaning domination and inevitably touching upon issues of authorship, poststructuralism and conceptuality.

pd (Panos Dimitropoulos), uses semiotics to create conceptual installations. By combining different connotations he orchestrates surrealistic meta-texts; instead of painting a pipe he uses an actual pipe and claim it not to be one. The object freed from its original surroundings and function, comes from the world of things to communicate the world of ideas. The apotheosis of materialism as well as the state of being that contemporary art has entered, have created the circumstances for a self-sustained, self-ironic and highly critical conceptual art where objects, upgraded from a mere commodity status, become the colours; semiotic and linguistic play are the brushes and the state of contemporary human condition the title. The primary concern is the theoretical at its attempt to become critical; the physical is treated as secondary, lightweight, unpretentious or dematerialised.

Artistically born in London and academically in Goldsmiths pd has exhibited internationally in major galleries such as The Royal Academy of Arts, Kunsthal Charlottenburg and Arte Laguna.

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