Subject: Antonio Rego @ Street Level
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 02 11:31:29 +0100
From: Malcolm Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ambit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Antonio Rego
Deep Under The Skin + Roundabout
24th September - 16th November 2002
These two new video works take the form of to camera presentations, combining both the video diary aesthetic with the same undedited characteristic of readings to an audience (through the camera).
In Deep Under the Skin a number of Glasgow based artists read from their favourite book, having total control over his or her performance to the camera and context in which it is set. Subjects addressed include friendship, love , war , suffering, punishment, disbelief and hope. Artists included are John Beagles, Janie Nicoll, Alan Currall, Marie Viltoft, Ross Birrel, Sarah Tripp, David Bellingham, Harald Melrose Turek, Virginia Brunnert and the artist.
In Roundabout, again the artist has involved artists and writers as contributors. Each time the car drives around a roundabout, day or night, a different person takes the passenger seat and gives a lecture/polemic or confession on a subject that he or she feels compelled and to share with others. As in Deep Under... the lecturer has total freedom in the way he or she gives the talk. Consisting of 8 contributors lasting between 35 and 45 minutes each, the gradual repetition of signs and symbols illuminate the theme of the roundabout. The video is an attempt to reinforce the individuals ability to communicate, as well as allude to the symbolism of circles as opposed to linearity. Roundabout was started in Glasgow in 1998 and is a continuos project until the artist retires from art, adding new contributors in an ever widening circle of cultural reference points, according to whicherver country or city he resides in. Participants include John Calcutt, Lorna T. Waite!
, Phil Kay, Alan Jamieson, Elizabeth Reider, Kevin Williamson, Hubert Jakob and Felix Kubin.
Antonio Rego is a Portuguese artist living in London. From 1998 to 2000 he was based in Glasgow and during that time he developed several works, including the two referred to in this publication, and he also co-curated PLANO XXI, an multi-venue exhibition of Portugue Art in the City of Glasgow (2000). Solo exhibitions include Project W.C. Container Video Installation (Porto), and Slow Motion/Art Attack + Estgad a retrospective of video works in 2001. Group exhibitions include: Pleased to Meet You based on an exchange between Scotland, Portugal and France (1996); Art Across the Ocean in Copenhagen, Denmark; and Zapping Ecstasy in Lisbon. He trained at the Porto School of Art (ESAP) and Goldsmiths College, London.
A specially produced brochure with a commissioned article by John Beagles coincides with the exhibition.
Supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
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