Subject: Dalziel + Scullion - this is a listing Date: Thu, 10 Jul 03 13:34:17 +0100 From: Malcolm Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You are invited to the opening of 'Aura A' by Dalziel + Scullion
on Saturday 12th August @ 7pm @ Street Level Photoworks
Exhibition runs 15th July - 23rd August
'Aura A' is a solo show by the artists Mathew Dalziel and Louise Scullion whose
broad themes concern the natural environment and mans relationship with it.
The work, which occupies both of the gallery spaces, comprises of four large-scale photographic prints and a video piece titled In the Open Sea.
The digital images are commanding images and consist of archive black and white
photography from the turn of the century which capture disturbing moments in
mankind�s quest for progress at the cost of the environment. These images are
pared with contemporary colour-saturated photographs of the landscape in all
its beauty and vigour. An image of deforestation is juxtaposed with an image of
luminescent glacier ice. The immediacy of affect on the felled giant redwood
clashes with the slow melting of the glacier ice. These images have a profound
effect, strikingly beautiful whilst at the same time charting an unsettling journey through the century�s pursuit, in the name of modernisation, to control and shape the environment. Controlling, shaping and taming the natural world
are themes explored further through the video work.
Dalziel and Scullion�s work explores complex issues and themes related with our existence within the enormity of the natural world. They tackle the big issues
concerning life and the environment, global themes which spiritually affect us
daily and which direct existence over millions of years - these are all issues to contemplate and question.
Collaborating since 1993, the artists have found ways of integrating their skills in different art forms and media. Perhaps one of their most recognisable and largest works The Horn can be seen on the M8 motorway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The 23 meter high horn shaped structure has become a landmark on this rather monotonous stretch of road.
The artists are based at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and have recently been appointed fellows at the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television in Bradford. They have exhibited their work at the Venice Biennale, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the The Fruitmarket in Edinburgh. Forthcoming exhibitions include 'GENUS' at National Museum of Film, Photography and Television in Bradford in September of this year, and 'Storm' at Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow from October until March 2004.
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