Photo from:http://www.westminster.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2013/victor-burgin-a-sense-of-place
As part of of our territories Gallery visiting activity, we went to see Victor Burgin's show taking place in University of Westminster: A Sense Of Place (1 November-1 December). After visiting the exhibition we also attended hi talk at the gallery at 6:30pm, in the talk, victor shared about his life experiment with the issue of class during her early life, and how this influenced his work. hHe also talked about how he decided to combine texts and images together during his processes...
'Burgin’s work is concerned with the ways real objects in actual space are mediated through memory and fantasy – the way ‘space’ becomes place. To this end he explores relationships between words and images – which he sees not as separate entities but rather as a hybrid form producing a ‘virtual’, psychological, image.
Burgin’s earlier work offered solutions to formal problems in the Minimalism he inherited from such teachers as Robert Morris and Donald Judd while a student at Yale School of Art and Architecture. The works in the exhibition at Ambika P3 were made after his rejection of the hermeticism of this legacy, and his expansion of its phenomenological concerns to include such issues as class, gender and sexuality.
The built environment – as a theatre of wishes and fears about past, present and future – is at the forefront of Burgin’s works, which move through promenades and panoramas. The image-text pieces progress along the gallery wall, or wrap around an entire space, or (in later projection pieces) exploit tracking and pan movements familiar from film. These later works answer our frenetic media environment with a contemplative conception of the hybrid virtual image – moving in permanently closed loops, but generating perpetually open spirals of time and memory.' (David Campany and Michael Maziere)
My favorite part of this how he use texts and images to get to idea and memory and fantasy, in one of the rectangle space, he spread his photos all around the four walls, and texts may not related with the actual photo they been type on, but after u go around the whole space, u will find that some texts you read before may talking about the photo u seen after.
We also have a little discussion about an journal related with the exhibition, its an interview of Victor Burgin by Laura Cottingham.: http://www.jca-online.com/burgin.html
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