Abstract
Exhibition Dates: 1st November 2024 – 22nd November 2024
Exhibition Venue: space52, Athens, Greece
Opening 2 Nov / durational performances 19:00-22:00
Artists: Mamoru Abe, Reginald Aloysius, Roddy Bell, Peter Blegvad, Aliki Braine, Jack Catling, Maria Chevska, Andy Cooke, Geoff Cox, Kate Davis & David Moore, Steve Dilworth, Larry Lynch, Stephen Farthing, Dan Fox, Hattie Landells, Matthew Luck Galpin, Oona Grimes, Ian Kiaer, Christina Mamakos, Nathaniel Mellors, Mick Peter, Conrad Shawcross, Victor Rees, Iain Sinclair, Holly Slingsby, Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Chiara Williams, Aaron Williamson & Ocean Farini, Tom Woolner
Cycloptics is a collaborative initiative bringing together artists from across the world who have been touched in some way by the work, guidance, inspiration and activities of Brian Catling RA. Conjuring his alter-ego, the Cyclops, Greece as the ancient seat of this mythical creature serves as the omphalos of gathering for this creative event.
Cycloptics responds to the instability of visual experience – in which the primacy of the ocular is simultaneously undermined by waves of illusion, simulation, virtuality and visualisation. The exhibition probes the broader philosophical and experiential vocabularies that have always existed around the persistent compulsion to see, structured around the nature of sight and insight, including the liminal, imaginary, illusory and invented domains. This event is an invitation to engage with a brief moment of alignment where the cyclopic gaze folds the many into one – to sit as in confessional with the implied personality of an unknown creature, the Cyclops, made manifest through artistic process.
Brian Catling RA was an artist, shaman and magician of sorts – conjuring worlds, playing with the seen and unseen, poking fun, embracing the spectral. He was born in London in 1948 and was a multi-media artist whose practice encompassed sculpture, painting, performance, video making, poetry and fiction. Catling began exhibiting his work internationally in 1975 after studying at the East London Polytechnic (BA), followed by the Royal College of Art (MA). He was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and Professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford for over 40 years. Throughout his career he inhabited the cyclops through a variety of media.
Cycloptics is an artist-run collaborative initiative curated by Jack Catling and Christina Mamakos, hosted by Dionisis Chrstofilogiannis and Space52, and supported by DionysiaTrust and Winchester School of Art. Approaching the exhibition as a discursive space, the event will bring together creative work taking shape as objects, videos, drawing, and painting presented in chorus and accompanied by a programme of performance events and a publication, bringing together artists around the world sharing a common spectral thread.
https://www.space52.gr/cycloptics/
https://www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/news/detail/cycloptics-in-athens
Exhibition Venue: space52, Athens, Greece
Opening 2 Nov / durational performances 19:00-22:00
Artists: Mamoru Abe, Reginald Aloysius, Roddy Bell, Peter Blegvad, Aliki Braine, Jack Catling, Maria Chevska, Andy Cooke, Geoff Cox, Kate Davis & David Moore, Steve Dilworth, Larry Lynch, Stephen Farthing, Dan Fox, Hattie Landells, Matthew Luck Galpin, Oona Grimes, Ian Kiaer, Christina Mamakos, Nathaniel Mellors, Mick Peter, Conrad Shawcross, Victor Rees, Iain Sinclair, Holly Slingsby, Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Chiara Williams, Aaron Williamson & Ocean Farini, Tom Woolner
Cycloptics is a collaborative initiative bringing together artists from across the world who have been touched in some way by the work, guidance, inspiration and activities of Brian Catling RA. Conjuring his alter-ego, the Cyclops, Greece as the ancient seat of this mythical creature serves as the omphalos of gathering for this creative event.
Cycloptics responds to the instability of visual experience – in which the primacy of the ocular is simultaneously undermined by waves of illusion, simulation, virtuality and visualisation. The exhibition probes the broader philosophical and experiential vocabularies that have always existed around the persistent compulsion to see, structured around the nature of sight and insight, including the liminal, imaginary, illusory and invented domains. This event is an invitation to engage with a brief moment of alignment where the cyclopic gaze folds the many into one – to sit as in confessional with the implied personality of an unknown creature, the Cyclops, made manifest through artistic process.
Brian Catling RA was an artist, shaman and magician of sorts – conjuring worlds, playing with the seen and unseen, poking fun, embracing the spectral. He was born in London in 1948 and was a multi-media artist whose practice encompassed sculpture, painting, performance, video making, poetry and fiction. Catling began exhibiting his work internationally in 1975 after studying at the East London Polytechnic (BA), followed by the Royal College of Art (MA). He was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and Professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford for over 40 years. Throughout his career he inhabited the cyclops through a variety of media.
Cycloptics is an artist-run collaborative initiative curated by Jack Catling and Christina Mamakos, hosted by Dionisis Chrstofilogiannis and Space52, and supported by DionysiaTrust and Winchester School of Art. Approaching the exhibition as a discursive space, the event will bring together creative work taking shape as objects, videos, drawing, and painting presented in chorus and accompanied by a programme of performance events and a publication, bringing together artists around the world sharing a common spectral thread.
https://www.space52.gr/cycloptics/
https://www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/news/detail/cycloptics-in-athens
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Athens |
| Publisher | space52 |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |