Eric Bainbridge - Video Show, CIRCA Screen, Sunderland

Eric Bainbridge 'One Sausage' 1993, single channel video, Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery Eric Bainbridge - Video Show 21 September  -  21 October Preview Tuesday 20 September  6 - 8 pm CIRCA Screen ThePlace, Atheneaum Street Sunderland SR1 1QX circaprojects.org Join Eric Bainbridge In Conversation with British Art Show 7 artist & Modern British Sculpture co-curator, Keith Wilson To book a place at the In Conversation event on the preview night, please email rebecca@contemporaryartsociety.org The exhibition Video Show is the first time Eric Bainbridge has shown his works in this medium as stand-alone projections presented in a cinematic context. Previously, these works have been presented as objects themselves, on gallery monitors amongst other three dimensional work. Whilst his three dimensional works are internationally renowned, Bainbridge's videos remain a relatively unconsidered aspect of his extensive body of work. Bainbridge first began using video to document objects and incidents in the studio nearly twenty years ago, at a time when his entire way of working was changing dramatically. The process of making video has played a key part in Bainbridge's thirty-five year long career, marking a turning point between his fur-clad sculptures of the 1980s, and his experimental and increasingly complex work during the 1990s. Bainbridge's early videos use the static shot to show sculptural works in time; inviting us to look again at what a sculpture is and can be as well as thinking deeper about the act of looking. In later videos, more incidental moments are captured with equal amounts of humour and philosophical play. Over the past 35 years, Eric Bainbridge has created an extensive body of work and become best known for his sculptures and collages, which have been exhibited internationally, including at Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (1986), The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1989), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2003) mima, Middlesbrough (2007), and recently in Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy, London (2010).