Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Eric Bainbridge: 'Good things come...' The Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK

Image: Eric Bainbridge, Jimmy the Nail bound to fail, 1987, Ocelot fur fabric, wire, rope and plaster, 210 x 33 x 35 cm (EB0415) Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

good things come...

The Gallery,

Plymouth College of Art,

Plymouth, UK

PL4 8AT

 

Preview: Wednesday 27th April 2016, 5-7pm

 

Exhibition: 25th April - 4th June 2016

(Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 10am-2pm, closed Sunday)

 

Agnes Calf / Alex Frost / Clive Murphy / Eric Bainbridge / Hayley Tompkins / Jack Lavender / Jo Addison / Kevin Hunt / Leo Fitzmaurice / Oliver Tirre / Peter Amoore / Richard Wentworth / Ryan Gander / Ruth Proctor / Sean Edwards / Susan Collis / Vanessa Billy

 

Blink and you'll miss it. The words conjure up a kind of panic of not wanting to lose sight of the protagonist 'thing' by keeping it locked into view. This 'thing' could be small, it might even be tiny (and therefore easy to miss) yet once found, the inevitability of time means that sooner or later you'll have to give in and blink.

good things come... proposes a scenario that contradicts this quandary by suggesting a world where the size of an object and our attention upon it (as artists and spectators) is intrinsically linked to time.

Pursuing a dual concept governed by the multiple readings of this well-known phrase, good things come... presents small-scale selections and scaled up collections. Complex objects of varying ages fuse history with form, implying that the more time we have to spend with a thing (and therefore the longer we wait) the greater the reward (perhaps even in the smallest of ways).

Curated by Kevin Hunt in collaboration with Hannah Jones

 

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