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Collections Ii | Works by international artists

The second in a series of three exhibitions featuring selected works from Horsecross Arts permanent public collection of contemporary art

Henna Assikainen + Silvana Macedo | Fernando Arias | Ergin Cavusoglu | Claude Closky | Vuk Cosic | Olle Essvik | Igor Krenz | Nils Messeke | Dan Perjovschi | Janek Shaefer | Valentin Stefanoff | Kosta Tonev | Mare Tralla | Wang YuYang

curated by Iliyana Nedkova  

Exhibition | 26 June - 14 October 2011

brunch preview | 26 june 2011 | 11am-2pm

Exclusive Screening of Artist's Films by Ergin Cavusoglu | 26 june 2011 | 11am-2pm

Artist's Talk by Ergin Cavusoglu | 26 june 2011 | 11:30am-12:00 noon

press photo call | 26 june 2011 | 12:00 noon - 2pm

Exhibition PosterExhibition Guide

 Ergin Cavusoglu

 

Encounters II | with time

 

The second in a series of three exhibitions featuring selected works by 24 members of Perthshire Visual Arts Forum:

Aileen Stackhouse : Alison Leeper : Anita Hutchison : Ann Coomber : Charmian Pollok : Clare Yarrington : Claudia Wegner : Darienne Tosh : Douglas MacBride : Genie Dee : Jackie Smith : Katy Galbraith : Kay Hood: Kyra Clegg : Lesley Mcdermott : Lorna Radbourne : Malize McBride : Mary Golden : Marysia Lachowicz : Phil Brammer : Rosemary Bassett : Su Grierson : Tricia Anderson : Bruce Shaw

guest-curated by Maria Devaney

Exhibition | 26 June - 14 October 2011

brunch preview | 26 june 2011 | 11am-2pm

press photo call | 26 june 2011 | 12:00 noon - 2pm

Press Preview

Exhibition Preview Invitation

Exhibition Poster

Exhibition Guide

Encounters 2

 

 

 

 

 

EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE | Works from the Horsecross Arts collection of contemporary art

 

glenlandia | susan collins 

exhibition | 14 sept 05 – ongoing 

glenlandia

 Glenlandia

File Extinguisher | Vuk Cosic 

exhibition | 1 Aug  09 – ongoing 

Excavating the history of the Internet, the artist stumbled upon the seminal Rand Memorandum RM-3420-PR (1960) by engineer Paul Baran. Describing a model of distributed network, intended to survive an eventual nuclear attack, Baran’s document however was published without ... the file extinguisher. Rectifying this omission, Cosic creates a tongue-in-cheek online application as a ‘safety tool’ for any files or websites which need deleting.

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file extinguisher

File Extinguisher

Commissioned and acquired as part of the Horsecross collection of contemporary art in 2009. Initially exhibited at Threshold Stage Screen as part of Out of Character | Vuk Cosic. Programming by Aleš Gabrovec. Initially commissioned by Hamaca, Barcelona and the Institute for Contemporary Art, London.

 

 

Figure Skating | Julita Wojcik 

exhibition | 9 May 09 – ongoing

The first artwork by Julita Wojcik to appear on YouTube. Acquired as part of the Horsecross collection of contemporary art in 2009. Initially exhibited at Threshold artspace YouTube channel as part of Domestic Modernism | Julita Wojcik

Threshold artspace youtube channel

 

Figure Skating | Julita Wojcik

 

Artist's YouTube mix (1960-2007) | Igor Krenz

exhibition | 4 Apr 09 – ongoing

Commissioned by Horsecross and initially exhibited at Threshold Stage Screen and Threshold artspace YouTube channel as part of Circles and Squares | Igor Krenz

Threshold artspace youtube channel

YouTube Mix

 

cantus | alec finlay

exhibition | 10 may 08 – ongoing

Commissioned by Horsecross and initially exhibited at Threshold Wave as a 22 channel video installation. Subsequently re-created as the current Internet-based endless circular poem with a theme and variations. Premiered as part of Primary Ingredients group show exploring the primacy of text in contemporary artists' visual grammar. 

cantus

Alec Finlay Arvo Part

In the artist’s own words: “It arose from my experience of hearing Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, lying in bed listening to Radio Three on a dark and rainy night. The music interfusing with the rain was suggestive of John Cage’s experience of listening to records in his cabin at Stony Point, and hearing the sounds of the surrounding woodland come in his open window, mixing in with the music.

Arvo Part’s later compositions, sometimes referred to as a form of spiritual minimalism, reflect a deep personal crisis: an impasse that he overcame by immersing himself in early music —  plainsong, Gregorian chant and polyphony. His later style is characterised by simple harmonies, often single unadorned notes. Another characteristic of Pärt's later works is that they are frequently settings for sacred texts.

My poem suggests aspects of Part’s life, faith and style, using a few simple words, their changes suggesting notes moving up or down a scale, creating verbal slippages of meaning, mishearings. There are echos of an earlier piece that I published in a contemporary Book of Hours, ‘Faith & Failure’ (Hours, 2003).”

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