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Cake contemporary arts is pleased to present
THE FISHERMAN’S WIDOW
Stephen Loughman
The exhibition presents new and existing works by artists Stephen Loughman and Colin Martin, whose works are informed or fixate on the passing of time as a content signifier in cinema and painting, whether it be the fetishisation of the film clip pre-loaded with significance or the drawing out of time associated with the places where film content is created, namely the empty film set.
Stephen Loughman's new series The Fisherman’s Widow takes its name from a print found on the wall of the room of one of Jack the Ripper’s victims. Loughman is interested in the notion of linking an artwork as witness to this notorious crime and the associations this would provoke in the viewer. Each painting takes as its source a “grab” from a film (Moulin Rouge, "If"and From the Life of the Marionettes). These images come preloaded with associations embedded within the narrative of the films from which they are taken. In some cases the common narrative thread is the prelude to a violent act in others, sentimentalism. For Loughman, the act of painting these images functions as a distilling method which slows down and fetishises what is only a few seconds of film time. The mythologies associated with this event are many and Loughman plays on these including the writer Patricia Cornwell's assertion that the Ripper was a painter (Walter Sickert).The show is accompanied by night-time footage of Victorian scenes shot around Preston and Dublin .
The opening reception is on Friday September the 16th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. The exhibition runs to the 15th of October 2011.
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Cake contemporary arts is pleased to present
BASIC SPACES
Colin Martin
The exhibition presents new and existing works by artists Colin Martin and Stephen Loughman, whose works are informed or fixate on the passing of time as a content signifier in cinema and painting, whether it be the fetishisation of the film clip pre loaded with significance or the drawing out of time associated with the places where film content is created, namely the empty film set.
Colin Martin's current practice concerns the relationship between Cinema and Space. It references both Pre-narrative Cinema and Structuralist Cinema. Martin uses the formal devices of cinema to explore locations to create non narrative films.These cast the locations themselves as central characters.The spaces are conduit spaces that carry a social, political or cultural charge . Many of the locations used in these films are bounded, idealised spaces that serve to accommodate things that may not ordinarily exist together naturally (Museums, Gardens, Film Studios) and that exert a sense of control and order over their subjects. This is formally echoed in the manner in which the camera relates to these spaces in long extended takes.These films reference directly the illusion making strategies of narrative film and cast the viewer physically as an active agent in the consumption and reception of these images.
The opening reception is on Friday September the 16th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. The exhibition runs to the 15th of October 2011.
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Colin Martin is an artist based in Dublin. He is a graduate of DIT and NCAD and works in the medium of painting and film.