Preview: Friday 7th
June
Exhibition: 8th-14th
June, 1-5pm
4a Piccadilly
Place, Manchester
Live Performances from Naomi Kashiwagi & Sarah Sanders, plus artist talk 8th
June, 2-4pm.
Things are
not what they first seem... Carefully chosen artists have been invited to
respond to the theme Android, originating from the Greek words 'andro'
meaning man (or human) and 'eidos' meaning like or likeness. These new artworks
are varied in media, and together, create an intense visual and audio
experience to captivate the viewer.
The inspiration for this show comes from the cult classic Blade Runner directed
by Ridley Scott (1982)
and Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang (1927).
Woven into
this discourse is a new work by Beth Ward
The Mountain Has a Mouth (An alternative book cover illustration for Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick). Incorporating
elements from the novel such as: Mars, a mountain and clouds of dust. Antony
Hall has considered the life-like qualities an android would potentially lack
and developed a kinetic work called Lung.
Lung attempts to accurately
replicate the phenomena of human breath. Daniel Fogarty has created a set of concrete sculptures that play
to the language of the face, a cover, a shelter, an object looking back at you.
Evi Grigoropoulou presents Semi
Precious a perfect
dissimulation of likeness.
Artists:
Matthew Bamber, Tom Baskeyfield, Sandra Bouguerch, Margaret Cahill, Nina Chua,
Julie Del’Hopital, Paul Dodgson, Pat Flynn, Daniel Fogarty, Evi Grigoropoulou,
Ben Gwilliam, Antony Hall, John Hood, Ian Irvine, Laurence Lane, John Lynch,
Daksha Patel, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Beth Ward, Denis Whiteside and Jacqueline
Wylie.
This exhibition was realised by Sarah Sanders, curated by Julie
Del’Hopital and Ian Irvine with assistance by John Lynch.
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