Exhibitions, Italy, Firenze, 01 January 1970
The SACI Gallery is proud to present an exhibition and performance:
“Casting Shadows”
Photographs, video, and performance by British artists Joel Gray and John Taylor.
September 14 - October 1, 2010
September 14, Tuesday 7:30 pm ~ Casting Shadows: Photographs and video of a performance by British artists Joel Gray and John Taylor. The artists will be present to discuss their upcoming performance. SACI GALLERY (Via Sant’Antonino 11).
September 15, Wednesday 7:30 pm ~ Performance with Joel Gray, John Taylor and model Jennifer Mututelli at SACI’s Jules Maidoff Palazzo for the Visual Arts (Via Sant’Egidio 14).
Joel Gray lives and works in London. His work spans the expressive possibilities from sculpture to performance. It ranges from hand-carved marble objects to collaborative social interventions. His work has been exhibited at the ICA London, Tate Modern and the British Museum. Joel Gray's latest work invites the viewer into the artist's working environment, simultaneously revealing the processes of the artist, the desires of the viewer, and the means by which the body can be represented.
The work being presented at the Jules Maidoff Palazzo follows the observation of Wyndham Lewis that “Renaissance Italy was very exactly a kind of Los Angeles, where historical scenes were tried out, antique buildings imitated and roughly run up, and dramatic crimes reconstructed.” Architecture, sculpture, theatre and painting, like the films of Hollywood, are an attempt to remember and record these moments in time, creating, recreating and emulating myth and history.
John Taylor lives and works in Pietrasanta, Lucca. He has an M.A. from the Royal Academy or Art in London and was a Rome Scholar at the British School of Rome. He has exhibited in the U.S, London, Rome, Florence, Berlin, and elsewhere.
He is currently researching how we look at sculpture in Western art, specifically the human figure ─ where the images came from and how they were conceived, emotionally, physically and artistically. According to John Taylor, the work being presented here will give the viewer an opportunity to see how to fix a three-dimensional moment in time. “In sculpture,” he says, “there may be present the internal, the external, light, shade, colour, emotions and, above all, time.”
The SACI Gallery is open Monday to Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday & Sunday 1-7pm.
“Casting Shadows”
Photographs, video, and performance by British artists Joel Gray and John Taylor.
September 14 - October 1, 2010
September 14, Tuesday 7:30 pm ~ Casting Shadows: Photographs and video of a performance by British artists Joel Gray and John Taylor. The artists will be present to discuss their upcoming performance. SACI GALLERY (Via Sant’Antonino 11).
September 15, Wednesday 7:30 pm ~ Performance with Joel Gray, John Taylor and model Jennifer Mututelli at SACI’s Jules Maidoff Palazzo for the Visual Arts (Via Sant’Egidio 14).
Joel Gray lives and works in London. His work spans the expressive possibilities from sculpture to performance. It ranges from hand-carved marble objects to collaborative social interventions. His work has been exhibited at the ICA London, Tate Modern and the British Museum. Joel Gray's latest work invites the viewer into the artist's working environment, simultaneously revealing the processes of the artist, the desires of the viewer, and the means by which the body can be represented.
The work being presented at the Jules Maidoff Palazzo follows the observation of Wyndham Lewis that “Renaissance Italy was very exactly a kind of Los Angeles, where historical scenes were tried out, antique buildings imitated and roughly run up, and dramatic crimes reconstructed.” Architecture, sculpture, theatre and painting, like the films of Hollywood, are an attempt to remember and record these moments in time, creating, recreating and emulating myth and history.
John Taylor lives and works in Pietrasanta, Lucca. He has an M.A. from the Royal Academy or Art in London and was a Rome Scholar at the British School of Rome. He has exhibited in the U.S, London, Rome, Florence, Berlin, and elsewhere.
He is currently researching how we look at sculpture in Western art, specifically the human figure ─ where the images came from and how they were conceived, emotionally, physically and artistically. According to John Taylor, the work being presented here will give the viewer an opportunity to see how to fix a three-dimensional moment in time. “In sculpture,” he says, “there may be present the internal, the external, light, shade, colour, emotions and, above all, time.”
The SACI Gallery is open Monday to Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday & Sunday 1-7pm.
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