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Jackson, Melanie, 2020, Show, Exhibition or Event, The undersides of practice

Abstract or Description:

The Undersides of Practice curated by Catherine Ferguson & Della Gooden for APT SHOTS Damian Taylor | Della Gooden | Melanie Jackson | Helen Robertson | Caroline Kraabel | David Ryan The beginnings of this exhibition lie in a reading of ‘The Origin of Perspective’ by Hubert Damisch, published in 1987 (first translated into English in 1994). In this book Damisch investigates linear perspective, an invention of Painting that employed geometry and the structured positioning of the viewer, to map our three-dimensional experience onto a two-dimensional surface; thereby rendering visual perception ‘truthfully’ via illusion.For the purposes of this exhibition, the curators have a slightly oblique angle of interest in all this. Namely, how through Damisch’s investigations a gap opens up between, on the one hand, the theoretical and technical achievements of Perspective, which are observable and understandable in the work (e.g. geometry) and on the other hand, the philosophical implications of what is experienced aesthetically (the phenomenological and motivated experience of the viewer).

Contributors:
Contribution
Name
RCA ID
Curator of an exhibition
Ferguson, Catherine
0911240010138
Artist
Gooden, Della
Artist
Taylor, Damian
Artist
Robertson, Helen
Artist
Kraabel, Caroline
Artist
Ryan, David
Events:
Title
Location
Dates
Type
The Undersides of Practice
APT Gallery
2020-01-25 - 2020-02-16
UNSPECIFIED
Subjects: Creative Arts and Design > W100 Fine Art
School or Centre: Other
School of Arts & Humanities
Date Deposited: 25 Jan 2021 18:01
Last Modified: 08 Jun 2025 23:10
URI: https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/4708
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