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from 7pm till 3am - Friday, 11th December 2009
TELLING TALES
November 16th – December 11th
Mayfair library, 25 South Audley Street, London W1K 2PB Monday – Friday 11 am – 7 pm Saturday 10.30 am – 2 pm
The
roots of popular fairy tales and folklore can be traced through time
and across belief systems all over the world – Cinderella, for example,
is recorded in versions from 9th century a.d China and further into the
past. With each culture the heroes and heroines take on different
virtues reflecting not only the storytellers take on their society, but
also their individual roles in it.
This mixed media exhibition
gathers together a group of international artists, all of whose work
tells tales - some recounting their own stories, some interpreting
stories that have had an impact on them.
Jakeline Londono
Curated by Camille Rodskjaer
CONCRETE
a visual deconstruction of a structure made of concrete
Bar Sequence 43 Essex Rd, London, N1
from 7pm till
3am
Friday, 30th October 2009
Heterological Boundaries 2 | Reloaded |
20 -25 October 2009 The Foundry, London
The exhibition is inspired by the Grelling’s paradox, also known as the Heterological Paradox.
According to this semantic paradox, words that describe exactly what they are – such as ‘short’ - are named autological. Words that don’t – such as ‘long’ - are referred to as heterological. The paradox arises then, when one considers whether the word heterological is indeed autological or not.
Heterological Boundaries comprises a series of diptyches in which both artists’ photos are juxtaposed, with the aim of representing Grelling’s paradox in pictures. The unlikely union of the two artists’ very different photographic style forms a series of new images and unleashes new meanings for viewers to discover.
“We have always been
attracted to each other’s photography and the different images we use to convey
similar meanings, Grelling goes to the very heart of what we are trying to
portray and challenges our sense of meaning.”
Cristina Cocullo “We decided on the concept of
the exhibition early on as we both believe that photography is the best conduit
for conveying meaning, these double images sit together without explanation as
we want to let people come to their own conclusions about what label belongs to
each image. After all, while all the photos are heterological images, a closer
look might break through boundaries to reveal their autological meanings.” Emanuela Franchini
5 May - 7 July 2009 at the Refectory, Southwark Cathedral, London.
The 11 Commandments is a visual and personal interpretation of the precepts divinely revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai. In Christian tradition we are accustomed to synthesising the Commandments with ten major precepts which, since the divine event on Mt. Sinai, have guided and shaped everyday life for millions of Christians around the world. The aim of the photographer is not to give us an iconographic representation of each single precept. There is no iconographic representation of the commandments in the history of the visual arts. The closest visual representations to the subject are the film The Ten Commandments by Cecil B. DeMille and depictions by a number of artists through time representing the prophet, such as Michelangelo’s Moses. The photography of Cristina Cocullo explores the subject with a deep and personal sensitivity in which metaphor is the principal element used to suggest a single precept. Cocullo’s eye observes how religious iconography is synthesised and reproduced in contemporary life with religious representations which are familiar to us all - modern icons, visual popularisations of the divine. Cristina Cocullo captures these at times with relentless truth, at others with subtle irony, sometimes suggesting reflections on the contemporary state of faith through its popular visual perception. In each photo, Cocullo tries to relate a single precept through a metaphorical image and at the end of this visual journey, through one of the most significant episodes of Christian faith.
With photograph number 11 she challenges us with a personal reflection. Cristina Cocullo produces a mystical and enigmatic image prompting us to question the meaning of the commandments in our daily lives.
Heterological Boundaries
March 3rd to April 3rd 2009 at the Mayfair Library, London.
Joint exhibition between two Italian photographers: Cristina Cocullo and Emanuela Franchini.
Based on the Grelling’s paradox, also known as Heterological Paradox.
This
semantic paradox assumes that autological words are exactly what they
describe (“short” is therefore autological being actually short).
Heterological words are those that are not like what they describe (“long” is a perfect example of a heterological word).
The question arises when someone asks whether the word heterological is autological.
If the answer is 'yes', "heterological" is then autological leading to a contradiction.
If the answer is 'no', "heterological" is then heterological and again leading to a contradiction.
These images are a simple attempt to break the heterological boundaries.
‘Breakthrough’
Group exhibition at the SFAC Gallery, San Francisco, US, 2007
Group exhibitions at the Musée de l’Elysée, Lousanne, Switzerland, 2007
‘Undicistanti’
Solo exhibition at The Foundry,
RHS Photographic Prize
London 2003
‘Hands’
Group touring exhibition
organized by D’Ars
Agency. Milan, Bologna and Trento, Italy 2001
‘The Human Side of Toys’
Solo touring exhibition around different Italian cities (
A
series of images the theme of which is 'the humanisation of toys'.
Close-ups of characters dear to the kids of yesterday and today such as
Barbie or Picachu, alternate with Teddy bears and more anonymous
puppets, collected and portrayed in England and Italy. A Teddy bear
reads a newspaper, dolls posing like Hollywood queens, a plastic
astronaut expresses the pride of a bemedalled NASA space hero, are just
some of the characters portrayed by Cocullo. "I behaved like a child
would with his toys, inventing stories, putting life into something
made of plastic or cloth, charging it with feelings and emotions,
making it become human", says Cocullo who, with her camera, has
investgated the toys using her lenses to give life to unanimated
characters, and through her images she makes those faces expressive and
impreganted with a human feature.
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Copying and displaying or redistribution of these
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