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Thursday, 02 July 2009 07:43 |
DAWNING OF AN ASPECT
Artists: Niall De Buitléar, Damien Flood, Laura Lancaster, Sonia Shiel
Curated By Mary Cremin
July 9 – August 15, 2009
Preview: Wednesday, July 8th 6-8 pm
Green On Red Gallery presents Dawning of An Aspect, an exhibition of four artists whose work offers an exploration of our capacity for perception through painting and sculpture. ‘Dawning of an aspect’ is taken from both Wittgenstein’s and Wollheim’s philosophical writings on the fundamental distinction between our perception and plain seeing. While the writings on this subject are based on painting, in this exhibition it is also applied to sculptural objects that reveal themselves through the act of looking. This twofold nature of our perception involves both the surface and subject simultaneously. Wittgenstein's aim was to dissolve the paradoxical appearance of aspect-dawning: when looking at a picture-object we can come to see it differently, although we also see that the picture-object itself remains unchanged. Wollheim’s writings view the expressiveness of depiction through psychoanalytic concept of projection in which we come to see a piece of the external world as corresponding to an inward state of mind which he referred to as the internal spectator The experience of seeing resemblances within the pictorial representation is an essential aspect of this idea.
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