Memorial Exhibition – Sample Images

Here are some sample images from the forthcoming Memorial exhibition at the Greenwich Gallery.  Click on a thumbnail for larger image.

 

E-flyer and more details in the previous post below.  Enjoy!

 

Exhibition – Memorial

Latest Crossing Lines exhibition opens 23 July. Let everybody know.

Exhibition – Memorial

Latest Crossing Lines exhibition opens 23 July. Let everybody know.

July Meetup

Crossing Lines: July meetup: New Academic Building: room 3.26: 6 – 8 p.m.: Wednesday 4th July 2012

Here is the lineup for the July meetup of Crossing Lines:

Cliff Davison will be briefly back in London & encouraging a collaboration with the Crossing Lines Group. Cliff writes:  “The Toronto Urban Photography Festival seeks to deconstruct and reconstruct new formulations of contemporary urban landscapes through the practice of photography. Critically examining what constitutes the urban through a visual framework TUPF aims to engage photographic practitioners and critical theorists in dialogue surrounding the imaginings of the urban as well as the importance of visualizing the urban as part of daily human fabric.” TUPF is here [http://tupf.ca/]

Nick Scammell who is jointly curating the Summer Memorial exhibition at The Greenwich Gallery with Michael Rodgers will be present to update where we are with the project, what’s to come, answer any participants’ questions & respond to current preparatory work.

Benedetta Pomini will be presenting for the first time at Crossing Lines & writes: “Mombello is a series that I took last year in a nowadays closed mental hospital just nearby Milan. Independently from the sensual desolation of the place that definitely seduced me while I was there, what has actually guided me in taking those pictures was something strictly connected with a more deep and scary kind of decadence, the one of care. Firmly convinced by the fact that places are what they are just because of the people who live in there (otherwise they become just non-places), Mombello would like to be a concrete example of the rooted process of both physical and cultural state of neglect diffused all around my country. Strong colors and shadows, light and darkness, life and death, emptiness and signs of presences are mixed into my pictures as components of a common ground, as rings of an unique chain, as symbols of the dense texture which characterize the controversial relation between people and their living spaces.”

Alex McIlhiney makes a welcome return with recent work showing a series of images of the City and the deserted industrial river front taken during the recent royal jolly.

John Levett will make a presentation of the ideas relating to curation & collaboration contained within the Crossing Lines Autumn Exhibition Home.

Hope that we’ll see you there; hope that you’ll be part of the discussion.

Crossing Lines Group: The Autumn Exhibition

The Crossing Lines Autumn Exhibition: The Greenwich Gallery @ Linear House: Monday October 1st to Sunday October 14th

The curation, by Michael Rodgers and Nick Scammell, of for Crossing Lines Summer Exhibition in July is in process.

The Crossing Lines Autumn Exhibition is introduced below & participation invited. The curation will be led by Johannes Rigal with the assistance of John Levett.

John Levett will present an extended introduction to the theme of this exhibition at the July meetup of the Crossing Lines Group.

This from Johannes Rigal:

“Home” – A collaborative exhibition by the Crossing Lines Group

For the Crossing Lines October Exhibition I want to propose two things: a theme and a curatorial outline.

I want to present the following framework, additional information will follow.

The main idea of the exhibition is to create a full collaboration among the Crossing Lines group and – through this – to create a
new approach to curating a group exhibition.

What will be presented in the final exhibition is merely not a show of several individual’s bodies of work but rather a full collaboration that will show a concise body of work created together.

As I propose “Home” as the main theme and title of the show, what I want to try is to alter the familiar concept of the “white cube” exhibition space and make it a “personalized space” – in the sense that the group acts as one.

“Home” can mean different things to different people. To achieve a complete body of work around this subject, there will be several “impulses” over the summer that hopefully will engage the group’s individual artists in the subject and will also serve as a framework for the overall achievement: the October exhibition.

A further aim of these impulses is to provoke reactions – responses from a temporal and spatial distance. What could result from this is a creative process and also a dialog or communication among the group.

For the exhibition, I would like to explore the possibility of presenting works by different artists as one collective achievement, without the individuals name tags, artist’s statements, etc…

I am interested to investigate what “group exhibition”, “collaboration”, “collective” and “home” mean and how these ideas and concepts can be presented in the gallery space.  The Crossing LInes participants, artists and members have proven on several occasion their artistic abilities and creative energies. The result of ultimately and truly combining these will be an astonishing body of work. I hope that the Group is up for going along on this journey.

Johannes Rigal