I'm sure the arty folk reading this already know what I'm going to say
When you put together an exhibition - be it a solo show, a group show or a massive arty-type event (of sorts) - the whole is always more important than the parts... all the bits have to be cohesive, tell your 'story', complete (not compete with) each other... so as you are hanging a show or creating an event you need to be quite ruthless: culling anything that doesn't work to complete that whole...
sometimes that means work that you might be passionate about has to be left out... and work that you feel unsure of is suddenly right..... ahhhhhh its all about the company you keep!
here are a few things (some of them pivotal works from my research) that we (ie my supervisors and the director of switchback gallery) decided to leave out of the 'codex infinitum' show
Caelum non
animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
‘They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.’
‘They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.’
Guerrilla artwork undertaken during
Sculpture on the Edge exhibition 2011,
300 origami boats folded from the
pages of 2 volumes of Colliers Encyclopaedia
released at dawn on an incoming
tide, collected at low tide.
Bermagui Harbour.
Terras
irradient ‘Let them illumine the earth’ 2012,
27 volumes of Encyclopaedia
Britannica each illuminated by a small candle,
Cuttagee Lake foreshore
non omnis
moriar ‘Not all of me shall die.’ 2012,
One volume Encyclopaedia Britannica
illuminated by a single candle
Cobargo Cemetery
oh and then there's honestum circuli - the virtuous circle
(but I'll show/tell you about that next time eh?)
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