Image: still from Samuel Fouracre’s ‘Gaudiamore’ (2012)
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30th May – 28th July 2012
Bruce High Quality Foundation, Nathan Cash Davidson, Antoine Catala, Sophie Cundale, Peles Empire, Samuel Fouracre with music by Dominic de Grande, Patrick Goddard, Jimmy Merris, Michael O’Mahoney, Matthew Ronay Ryan Trecartin, Jesse Wine
Minstrel & Chronicle explores the theme of the contemporary artist as storyteller. The exhibition takes as its central concern the tension between the impulse to communicate and the inherently anarchic processes of art making.
This exhibition perceives a relationship between the contemporary narrator and the popular image of the minstrel figure in the hybridisation of forms, the marriage of high culture with populism, the appropriation of formal and parochial language and the means by which socio-political issues are addressed through narrative forms appropriated from the community’s shared cultural inheritance.