Mark Wallinger Curates - The Russian Linesman

July 2, 2009 - PRLog -- Turner Prize winner, Mark Wallinger, is one of Britain’s most original and socially committed artists, creating works that combine intellectual curiosity with wide public appeal.

This Hayward Touring Exhibition opened in London to great critical acclaim, before moving to Leeds City Art Gallery and now Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

This is the first gallery exhibition curated by Wallinger and provides special insights into the artist’s thought processes and interests.

The title and many of the themes in the exhibition take their inspiration from the story of the Russian linesman, whose controversial ruling in the 1966 World Cup final between England and Germany changed the course of footballing history.

For his selection, Wallinger has created an exhibition that investigates many of the issues that have concerned him as an artist over the past 25 years, in particular ideas of boundaries, thresholds and arbitrary divides, whether physical, political, psychological or metaphysical.

Navigating almost 2000 years of history, from an early Roman double-headed marble bust of Dionysus and Silenus, through popular ‘View-master’ stereoscopic photographs and 18th Century trompe l’oeil paintings, to a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer showing a device for rendering objects in two dimensions, the show explores the ambiguities present in our own perceptions and how the lines between fact and fiction are often blurred and manipulated.

The show includes Mark’s own work, Time and Relative Dimensions in Space (2001), a life-size mirrored representation of the Tardis from Doctor Who, first shown at the Venice Biennale. Related works in the show are grouped together, in order to create unexpected dialogues and interpretations.

Highlights in the exhibition include: A Dead Soldier by an anonymous painter, originally attributed to Velasquez , which was the source for The Dead Matador by Manet, who thought it was by the Spanish master; historical and contemporary trompe l’oeil images, from L-L Boilly’s Ivory Crucifix on Wall of 1812 to Vija Celmin’s To Fix the Image in Memory XII (1977), a stone exactly replicated in bronze; and Thomas Demand’s Poll (2001), a representation of a polling station during the Florida recount.

This exhibition is the latest in an ongoing Hayward Touring series curated by artists, including Michael Craig-Martin, Tacita Dean, Susan Hiller and Richard Wentworth.
A Hayward Touring exhibition from the Southbank Centre, London on behalf of Arts Council England.

A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with an essay by Mark Wallinger  Exhibition price £14.99

For more information on the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery visit http://www.glynnviviangallery.org or telephone 01792 516900.

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