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15 July - 7 August 2011

Open Friday-Sunday 12-6pm and whenever an artist is working in the gallery

EVENT SCHEDULE:

15 - 17 JULY 12-6PM            BOB LEVENE

22 - 24 JULY 12-6PM            DAVID MARTIN

29 - 31 JULY 12-6PM            NOEL CLUEIT

2 - 5 AUGUST 12-6PM          DAN METHTHANANDA

FRIDAY 5 AUGUST 8PM       WOODMILL

7 AUGUST 4-6PM                 ENDVIEW

SOLO SHOW / GROUP SHOW 2011

A group exhibition presented as a series of cumulative solo exhibitions. Each artist produces and presents new work in the gallery space at different times during the exhibition, choosing either to use or disregard what has gone before.

For the curator, importance is shifted from spatial or thematic concerns towards the exhibition's time frame.

For the artist, this format of group exhibition instigates and supports a much more active decision-making role than usual, asking them to respond physically to others' work in the space, so shifting elements of curatorial (spatial, aesthetic and thematic) control over to the artists. The curator's role becomes insignificant other than setting the initial parameters, passing all control of exhibited product back to the artist.

The artist takes on the gallery as a temporary workplace akin to that of a studio, in which they find things already, which they must work with in some way. They do not bring along pre-made works ready to hang on the white walls or place on the floor - instead they become an ongoing work themselves in the space in amongst the visiting public.                       

Despite the artists being in a group exhibition together, they will not personally meet during the exhibition, due to the applied curatorial structure concentrating on time-frame. Instead, their practices' will meet in a more urgent (than usual) space, their artworks insisting upon use rather than contemplation, creating a physical conversation within the gallery space. Instead of the artists' being invited and curated into a standard group exhibition with work on the walls next to another artist, the artists will author the entire space, whilst having to deal with what has gone before in an enveloping and overlapping process of cumulatively produced artworks.

In short, several exhibitions within one exhibition.

This ongoing exhibition will be updated daily according to the artists' work throughout the project on http://www.cratespace.co.uk and http://soloshow-groupshow.blogspot.com/