Animated Environments: Graham Gussin
Friday 4 May - Sunday 1 July
Visual artist Graham Gussin presents new and existing works which focus on painting, film, photography and text as platforms for performance. The friction of visual art and dance is a defining aspect in all of Siobhan Davies’ own work and commissions, allowing each art form to stand alongside the other.
Gussin’s works are informed by the drama and suspense of cinema. They draw on its visual codes and structural devices, of sound, close-up, freeze frame, special effects and title sequence, to create moments which are isolated from a narrative.
This multimedia exhibition includes Transport (1994), a large painting using sound, in this case the spoken word of the title, to generate an image, and Film Poster (2008), a poster that can be taken away by visitors with a list of films, possible titles and possible ways they could be made. Film (2010) is a moving image version of Film Poster, and runs on a monitor.
The most recent work on display is Hum (2012), set in Siobhan Davies Studios’ stairwell, an audio work which mimics the musical scores of film at moments of heightened and impending drama.
Gussin studied at Middlesex Polytechnic (1981-85) and Chelsea School of Art (1990), and has recently exhibited at Art House Foundation (2011), Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011), and Camden Arts Centre (2010). He is currently working on a new film project and is a lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Animated Environments: Graham Gussin is the second exhibition in a series at Siobhan Davies Studios, curated by Charles Danby, examining the active potential of images as still frames of time, within the fields of photography, film and event. The series opened with Guy Sherwin’s Movements in Light in 2011 and concludes with an exhibition by Steven Pippin in autumn 2012.
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Description
Dates
4 May – 1 July 2012
Times
Mon – Thurs 10am – 8pm
Fri – Sat 10am – 5pm
Sun 10am – 2pm
Tickets
Free entry, drop in
All exhibition times are subject to change, please check with reception on 020 7091 9650 before visiting
EXHIBITION EVENTS
Special off-site event
Illumination Rig
Friday 25 May
4 - 10pm
Behind Fusion Leisure Centre, at the junction of Longville Road and Church Yard Row, Newington Butts, Elephant & Castle SE1
Free entry, drop in
As part of the South London Art Map’s Last Fridays events, Illumination Rig will reflect the fast changing landscape of Elephant & Castle, where the Studios are located.
‘A landscape, arena or situation becomes the subject of the work simply through being lit, it is a way of painting directly onto a landscape- urban or rural, occupied or deserted...’
- Graham Gussin
Graham Gussin and David Chipperfield
In Conversation
Sunday 24 June
2.30pm
£7 / £5
To book call 020 7091 9650
As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Jeremy Millar hosts a question led conversation between Graham Gussin and internationally acclaimed architect David Chipperfield. The conversation will explore their respective relationships to architecture within the city and across areas under regeneration, their re-activation of the familiar, and their engagement of audiences across public sites.
Visual artist Graham Gussin presents new and existing works which focus on painting, film, photography and text as platforms for performance. The friction of visual art and dance is a defining aspect in all of Siobhan Davies’ own work and commissions, allowing each art form to stand alongside the other.
Gussin’s works are informed by the drama and suspense of cinema. They draw on its visual codes and structural devices, of sound, close-up, freeze frame, special effects and title sequence, to create moments which are isolated from a narrative.
This multimedia exhibition includes Transport (1994), a large painting using sound, in this case the spoken word of the title, to generate an image, and Film Poster (2008), a poster that can be taken away by visitors with a list of films, possible titles and possible ways they could be made. Film (2010) is a moving image version of Film Poster, and runs on a monitor.
The most recent work on display is Hum (2012), set in Siobhan Davies Studios’ stairwell, an audio work which mimics the musical scores of film at moments of heightened and impending drama.
Gussin studied at Middlesex Polytechnic (1981-85) and Chelsea School of Art (1990), and has recently exhibited at Art House Foundation (2011), Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011), and Camden Arts Centre (2010). He is currently working on a new film project and is a lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Animated Environments: Graham Gussin is the second exhibition in a series at Siobhan Davies Studios, curated by Charles Danby, examining the active potential of images as still frames of time, within the fields of photography, film and event. The series opened with Guy Sherwin’s Movements in Light in 2011 and concludes with an exhibition by Steven Pippin in autumn 2012.
Fri – Sat 10am – 5pm
Sun 10am – 2pm
EXHIBITION EVENTS
Special off-site event
Illumination Rig
Friday 25 May
4 - 10pm
Behind Fusion Leisure Centre, at the junction of Longville Road and Church Yard Row, Newington Butts, Elephant & Castle SE1
Free entry, drop in
As part of the South London Art Map’s Last Fridays events, Illumination Rig will reflect the fast changing landscape of Elephant & Castle, where the Studios are located.
‘A landscape, arena or situation becomes the subject of the work simply through being lit, it is a way of painting directly onto a landscape- urban or rural, occupied or deserted...’
- Graham Gussin
Graham Gussin and David Chipperfield
In Conversation
Sunday 24 June
2.30pm
£7 / £5
To book call 020 7091 9650
As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Jeremy Millar hosts a question led conversation between Graham Gussin and internationally acclaimed architect David Chipperfield. The conversation will explore their respective relationships to architecture within the city and across areas under regeneration, their re-activation of the familiar, and their engagement of audiences across public sites.
