Mostre, Parma, 20 July 2008
Curated by Paul Malone, Nicola Rae and Mickey Dell
To the casual observer the world appears
in a constant state of perpetual motion
organising itself into structures of increasing complexity.
In this exhibition, sixteen artists from six countries have been asked to re-interpret
this phenomenon in terms of their own
creative practice.
From the philosophical to the humorous
and the sublime to the absurd,
the artworks present an interpretive response
to the issues of cyclicity, entropy
and what the ancient Greeks used to call hyparxis, or ‘ableness to be’.
-What is it that sustains inner creative momentum?
-How do we generate narratives within existential recurrence?
-How does Nature regenerate? Need human conflict be an inevitable result of historical precedent?
-Can modelling accurately emulate the real world? These are just some of the questions
that exercise the ingenuity of the participating artists in Perpetuum Mobile.
To the casual observer the world appears
in a constant state of perpetual motion
organising itself into structures of increasing complexity.
In this exhibition, sixteen artists from six countries have been asked to re-interpret
this phenomenon in terms of their own
creative practice.
From the philosophical to the humorous
and the sublime to the absurd,
the artworks present an interpretive response
to the issues of cyclicity, entropy
and what the ancient Greeks used to call hyparxis, or ‘ableness to be’.
-What is it that sustains inner creative momentum?
-How do we generate narratives within existential recurrence?
-How does Nature regenerate? Need human conflict be an inevitable result of historical precedent?
-Can modelling accurately emulate the real world? These are just some of the questions
that exercise the ingenuity of the participating artists in Perpetuum Mobile.
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