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Most recent : Tom Duggan: Lacuna
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EXHIBITION PREVIEW:
SATURDAY 17 APRIL 2010, 6-9PM | CRATE PROJECT SPACE, BILTON SQUARE, MARGATE CT9 1DX
EXHIBITION OPENING DATES AND TIMES:
18, 23-25, 30 APRIL 2010 AND 1 MAY, 12-5PM | CRATE PROJECT SPACE
19-23 APRIL 2010, 9AM-5PM | HERBERT READ GALLERY, UCA CANTERBURY, NEW DOVER ROAD, CANTERBURY CT1 3AN
“Wherever art appears, life disappears." Francis Picabia
Crate presents Lacuna, which documents the actions of a series of personas inhabited by the artist Tom Duggan.
The exhibition, which will take place at Crate Project Space in Margate and at the Herbert Read Gallery at UCA in Canterbury, comprises installation, performance, found objects and text works.
Lacuna portrays ‘an artist who isolates himself for our spectacle’, regarding the tradition of disappearing artists like Bas Jan Ader and Lee Lozano, while considering, perhaps ironically, how such artists have entered into art history.
In some instances we see Duggan proposing fantasies; in others he seems to be preparing to disappear from the world. Seeming to exist both in fiction and in reality, these works reflect Duggan’s apparently simultaneous desires to be known and to be invisible.
Several of the works make attempts at declaring something. In one instance, Duggan claims to have put everything he owns into cardboard boxes. In another work, that the object exhibited is an item stolen from an undisclosed location somewhere in the UK. These claims are either supported with some kind of proof (if the action took place in the past), or presented as a promise (if it is yet to take place); with each, some aspect of the work is either unseen or unspecified.
In contrast to these declarations and promises are the suggestions of imagined exhibitions curated by the artist, for which he has created a series of press releases and floor plans.
Lacuna considers the presentation of the Tom Duggan artist-persona through this institutional framework and its capacity for revealing truths. It asks whether the viewer will accept the disparity between the Tom Duggan who speaks through the institution and the Tom Duggan who, we are told, carries out the series of secretive, isolated and contemplative acts documented in the work.
Lacuna is part of Bad Translation, Crate’s programme for 2009/10. It is supported by Arts Council England and Kent County Council.
Contact: programme@cratespace.co.uk
http://cratespace.co.uk
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