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Stories/Narrative

10 – 11 Dec 2016

Exhibition

This event has now finished

Stories/Narrative

Source http://www.mariusvonbrasch.co.uk

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Studio exhibition at Marius von Brasch's venue The Studio at Rookley Manor Niton Road, Rookley, PO38 3NR

Drinks reception: Saturday 10th Dec 2016 5.30-8pm

Open also on Sunday 11th Dec 2016 11.30am-4pm

Artists involved:
David Firmstone
Ella Clocksin
Howard Hardiman
Jan Williams/Chris Teasdale - The Caravan Gallery
Lisa Traxler
Marius von Brasch
Michael Bartlett

Marius von Brasch invited six artists to contribute work in response to the question of how to tell stories or link into a bigger narrative in a pictorial way. Being deeply attracted by all kinds of stories and their fluent connection between truth and the imaginary, one can be quite often disappointed by those that resolve neatly all enticing and ambiguous strands so as to leave the reader, while turning the last page, with a rising feeling of being cheated of what felt alive before. It's similar to a sudden knowing that a painting has been 'killed' by overdoing the good thing. In contrast, ancient storytellers, for example, the Khanty people from Western Siberia, prolonged their stories so far into the night that listeners would fall asleep and never know an end. Thus, a story can entail 'a path to be followed, along which one can keep on going rather than coming to a dead end or being caught in a loop of ever-repeating cycles' (Tim Gold, Lines, 2007, p. 90). And, of course, a story can also fold back and deny communicating.

Our show will hopefully convey something of this creative openness of sharing stories so that viewers are invited to compose a story-line that picks up on the lines, loops, planes, ruptures and forces within a frame, or connects with other frames close-by. Most of the work will be for sale.

This show is part of an ongoing series of events in Marius' studio every half a year where he intends to bring together groups of artists whose work he believes in.



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