Today in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" installation "Light Diaries" opens exhibition of the artist Charles Sandison

cost center "Arena", 4-26 January 2013

Charles Sandison Source: Press Release CVM" Manezh »

Today Mil "Manezh" installation "Light Diaries" artist Charles Sandison, created specifically for the space of the Grand Manege, presents "Earth echo of solar storms."

«The writer, born in the body of the artist," - says of himself Sandison, best known for his projects with the words and letters that come to life, move and die. Movement implement computer programs, which the artist writes specifically for each individual from exposure. These "light word» - words of light - there are inside the halls and on the city walls, creating abstract landscapes and providing many opportunities for interpretation.

CHARLES Sandison Chamber. 2009 Denver Art Museum. Colorado Source: Press Release CVM "Manezh»

CHARLES Sandison Chamber. 2009 Denver Art Museum. Colorado Source: Press Release CVM "Manezh»

I use words, computer code, space, objects, architecture, history, light, science, nature, , - Sandison says. - I translate it all into a computer code, and create "overlay" in the real world as a projection in the space ... The viewer is needed here, its presence is assumed by the project. So the audience becomes part of the system and its evolution.

Works Sandison, now included in the anthology of video art, are so-called. dematerialized, "post-ontological art" (Peter Weibel), reinterpreting the border presentation and representation, electronic and organic, word and text.

CHARLES Sandison Figurehead. 2010 Peabody Essex Museum. Salem. Massachusetts Source: Press Release CVM "Manezh»

In the project, Charles Sandison Living rooms (2001) appeared on the walls of the hall, cruised faced and disappeared just 10 words: mother, father, female, male, child, old man, dead man, the food, the risk of the virus . In this kind of theater lighting letter word sequences were killed or generate other: man , combining with woman , became father and produced child , and getting on virus , became dead .

In Tabula rasa (2011), presented at the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art, computer software was pushing philosophical treatises of John Locke ("Essay Concerning Human Understanding") and Immanuel Kant ("Critique of Pure Reason"). The artist tried to present two different theories of human knowledge and thought, "natural" and "educational».

light installation "Love and Hate" (2011) at the Military History Museum in Dresden created kinetic design on the walls of the museum rooms of just two words: love and hate . This simple, yet powerful move makes us think about the nature of the war in a very different perspective: the emotional and sensual.

My topic - says the artist - is disunity. Mind and body, logic and imagination, the code and its implementation ...

Charles Sandison (b. 1969) - British-born painter, living and working in Finland. Member Venice Biennale (2001), the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2011), the Singapore Biennale (2011), the Venice Architecture Biennial (2012). His works are in the collections of Reina Sofia, Madrid, Museum of Quai Branly, Paris, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, and many others.

Source : Press Release CVM "Manezh»