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8th January 2010

Exhibitions and Visual Arts Events at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, January – March 2010

Arddangosfeydd yn y Canolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth, Ionawr – mawrth 2010-01-08

Here is the latest update from the Exhibition Department of Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

Gallery 1

20 January Ionawr - 27 February Chwefror 

Through Other Eyes: Contemporary Art from South Asia

Curated by Gérard Mermoz, this exhibition presents a selection of drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs and films from emerging artists in India and Pakistan. Theworks showthese artists redefining their place in the world at a crucial stage in the cultural life of India and Pakistan;with each artist negotiating the legacy of their respective regional cultural traditions amid rising pressure to embrace globalisation as an emblemof progress, modernity and a better future.

Curator Gérard Mermoz spent threemonths travelling around the continent from Kochi in India to Lahore in Pakistan via Bangalore, Mumbai, Bhopal, Vadodara, Delhi, Kolkata and Santiniketan to find the drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, films and prints for this exhibition. "I was interested in looking at South Asian art before it gets entangled with the commercial sector. ...There are no artists involved in the exhibition aged above 30 except for the tribal artists who are older, and a substantial proportion are women, which I didn't anticipate when I set out to put the collection together."

A Touring Exhibition from the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry

Gyda Gérard Mermoz yn curadu, mae'r arddangosfa hon yn cyflwyno detholiad o arluniadau, paentiadau, cerflunwaith, ffotograffau a ffilmiau gan artistiaid sy'n dod i'r amlwg yn India a Pacistan. Mae'r gwaith yn dangos yr artistiaid hyn yn ailddiffinio eu lle yn y byd ar gyfnod hollbwysig ym mywyd diwylliannol India a Pacistan, gyda phob artist yn ystyried etifeddiaeth ei draddodiadau diwylliannol rhanbarthol ei hun yng nghanol y pwysau i groesawu'r byd-eang fel modd o ddatblygu, symud ymlaen a sicrhau dyfodol gwell.

Treuliodd Gérard Mermoz drimis yn teithio o gwmpas y cyfandir o Kochi yn India i Lahore yn Pacistan, heibio Bangalore, Mumbai, Bhopal, Vadodara, Delhi, Kolkata a Santiniketan i ddod o hyd i'r gwaith ar gyfer yr arddangosfa hon. "'Roedd gennyf ddiddordeb mewn edrych ar gelf De Asia cyn iddo gael ei effeithio gan y sector masnachol ... mae'r holl artistiaid sy'n arddangos yn llai na 30 oed ar wahân i'r artistiaid llwythol sy'n hyˆn, ac mae nifer sylweddol ohonynt yn ferched - nid rhywbeth yr oeddwn yn rhagweld wrth roi'r casgliad at ei gilydd."

Arddangosfa ar Daith o Oriel Gelf ac Amgueddfa Herbert, Cofentri.

Free Gallery Talk Thurs 28 Jan at 6pm

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10 March Mawrth - 17 April Ebrill

Winter Garden:

The Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art

This exhibition shows works - drawings, paintings and video works - by 14 Japanese artists selected by Midori Matsui, one of Japan's most prominent art critics. She has defined them as representatives of the ‘Micropop' tendency - a significant trend amongst younger Japanese artists. These artists present their distinctive view of the world through the combination of fragments, and by imbuing the obsolete or the commonplace with new functions or meanings. These works can appear modest, even anonymous, with the use of inexpensive or expendable materials.

Their art transforms and refreshes the every day object, the insignificant details of our surroundings, the outmoded architecture. Mae’r arddangosfa hon yn dangos gwaith - arluniadau, paentiadau a gwaith fideo - gan 14 o artistiaid Siapaneaidd a ddewiswyd gan Midori Matsui, un o adolygwyr celf mwyaf blaenllaw Siapan. Mae hi wedi eu diffinio fel cynrychiolwyr o’r duedd ‘Micropop’ - sy’n duedd arwyddocaol ymysg artistiaid Siapaneaidd iau. Mae’r artistiaid hyn yn cyflwyno eu golwg neilltuol o’r byd trwy gyfuno tameidiau, a thrwy roi i’r darfodedig neu’r cyffredin ryw swyddogaeth neu ystyr newydd. Gall y darnau hyn o waith ymddangos yn ddiymhongar, yn anhysbys hyd yn oed, trwy ddefnyddio deunydd rhad a dibwys. Mae eu celf yn trawsffurfio’r cyffredin, manylion dinod ein hamgylchedd, y bensaerniaeth hen ffasiwn.

The artists: Keisuke Yamamoto, Hiroshi Sugito, Tamu Ochiai, Ryoko Aoki, Lyota Yagi, Kohki Tanaka, Makiko Kudo, Mahomi kunikata, Aya Takano, Taro Izumi, Hiroe Saeki, Maki Handa, Masaya Chiba, Chim-Pom.

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Gallery 2

14 November Tachwedd - 16 January Ionawr 2010

40 Years of Printmaking from Edinburgh Printmakers

Established in 1967 as the first open access studio in Britain, Edinburgh Print¬makers has been at the heart of the Scottish capital’s art scene for four decades, providing access to its workshop for emerging and established artists alike, and raising the profile of printmaking with its gallery space.

This exhibition celebrates over 40 years of work at Edinburgh Printmakers, and features groundbreaking works by artists including John Bellany, Peter Howson, William Johnstone, Barbara Rae, Calum Colvin and Moyna Flannigan. A celebration of fine contemporary printmaking in Britain; many of the works will be for sale.

Wedi’i sefydlu ym 1967 fel y stiwdio fynediad agored gyntaf ym Mhrydain, mae Gwneuthurwyr Print Caeredin wedi bod wrth wraidd gweithgareddau celf y ddinas ers pedwar degawd, yn croesawu artistiaid newydd a sefydledig i’w stiwdio, ac yn codi proffil gwneuthur printiau yn ei gofod oriel.

Mae’r arddangosfa hon yn dathlu dros 40 mlynedd o waith gan y mudiad, ac mae’n nodweddu gweithiau arloesol gan nifer o artistiaid blaenllaw yn y maes. Bydd nifer o’r darnau ar werth.

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23 January Ionawr - 20 March Mawrth

Santu Mofokeng

Santu Mofokeng is one of South Africa's leading photographers. He began his career as a street photographer in Soweto and through the 1980's worked on the documentary coverage of the anti-Apartheid struggle. At the end of the decade, Mofokeng decided to leave the field of overtly political photojournalism and to engage in the representation of everyday life in South Africa’s townships.With subjects as visually diverse as religious rituals, images of memorial sites and historical activity, or desolate landscapes, Mofokeng subverts the comfort zones of racial and cultural memory, and questions the politics of representation and the objectifying gaze of the photographer.

Santu Mofokeng yw un o brif ffotograffwyr De Affrica. Dechreuodd ar ei yrfa fel ffotograffydd stryd yn Soweto a thrwy’r 1980au gweithiodd ar ddogfennu’r frwydr wrth-Apartheid. Ar ddiwedd y degawd penderfynodd ymadael â maes ffotonewyddiaduraeth wleidyddol a chanolbwyntio ar gofnodi bywyd bob dydd yn nhreflannau De Affrica. Gyda gwrthrychau mor wahanol yn weledol â defodau crefyddol a delweddau o hunaniaethau duon neu dirweddau diffaith, mae Mofokeng yn tanseilio diogelwch y cof hiliol a diwylliannol ac yn cwestiynu pynciau gwleidyddol drwy lygad y ffotograffydd.

Free Gallery Talk Thurs 18 Feb at 6pm.

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Café

10 December Rhagfyr - 13 February Chwefror

First Contact

An intriguing exhibition of works created in the popular black & white photography classes led by Stephen Bailey, Marian Delyth and Gareth Hughes. Selected by Ron Davies OBE.

Arddangosfa ddiddorol o waith mewn ffotograffiaeth ddu a gwyn a greuwyd gan aelodau un o ddosbarthiadau ffotograffiaeth poblogaidd y Ganolfan.

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Artist in Residence

Preswyliadau Artistiaid

December/ Rhagfyr 2009—February / Chwefror 2010

Lucy Harvey

Statement 2009

Objects hang before the eyes of the imagination, continuously re-presenting ourselves to ourselves, and telling the story of our lives in ways which would be impossible otherwise” – Susan Pearce

We reflect ourselves in objects for reassurance and protection, escapism and discovery.  The terrifying and fearful narratives we invent allow us to feel some sort of control over the world around us and the three dimensional form acts as palpable evidence of these real and imagined tales.

I use craft processes as a vehicle to speak of the absent, the uncanny and the melancholy. Assuming the role of a fraudulent anthropologist, I manipulate the pre-existing to create enigmatic artefacts which toy with our longing to believe in the fantastic. Subverting the authority of environment and the associative power of collection allow me to confuse and construct, evoking a conflict of animistic fears and desires.

Datganiad 2009

 “Mae gwrthrychau’n hongian rhwng llygaid y dychymyg, gan ein cynrychioli’n hunain i’n hunain yn barhaus a chan adrodd hanes ein bywydau mewn ffyrdd a fyddai fel arall yn amhosibl – Susan Pearce.

Rydym yn ein hadlewyrchu ein hunain mewn gwrthrychau er mwyn sicrwydd a diogelwch, fel dihangfa a darganfyddiad. Mae’r straeon dychrynllyd ac ofnadwy rydym yn eu dyfeisio yn gadael i ni deimlo rhyw fath o reolaeth dros y byd o’n cwmpas ac mae’r ffurf dri dimensiwn yn gweithredu fel tystiolaeth amlwg o’r chwedlau hyn – y rhai go-iawn a’r rheini sydd wedi’u dychmygu.

Rwyf yn defnyddio prosesau crefft fel cyfrwng i siarad am yr absennol, yr annaearol a’r pruddglwyfus. Gan gymryd arnaf rôl ffug anthropolegydd, byddaf yn trafod yr hyn sydd eisoes yn bodoli er mwyn creu arteffactau enigmatig sy’n chwarae â’n hysfa i gredu yn y ffantastig. Mae gwyrdroi awdurdod amgylchedd a phŵer cysylltiedig casglu, yn gadael i mi ddrysu ac adeiladu, gan greu gwrthdaro rhwng ofnau a dyheadau animistaidd.

Katherine Sullivan

 Artists Statement 2009       

As an artist I have always been fascinated by the question of identity and the way we portray this in the world through the forms of our clothing and our architecture. Both are seen as metaphors for the body and for human experience. Dress both defines and de-individualises us and, in this sense, stands upon the dangerous margins between self and other, inside and outside and private and public.

My experience as a costume maker and my subsequent translation of textile processes into sculptural elements within my work places me in an excellent position to investigate this relationship. I examine the structural elements of both clothing and architecture in relation to their fabric.

I often experiment with building and engineering materials whilst employing techniques found in the textile industry in order to create sculptural fabrics of my own. It is my aim to lift the decorative elements from clothing and buildings and turn them into the constructive elements within my sculptures.

Datganiad Artist 2009    

Fel artist, mae cwestiynau sy’n ymwneud â hunaniaeth erioed wedi mynd â’m bryd ynghyd â’r ffordd rydym yn darlunio hyn yn y byd trwy ffurfiau ein dillad a’n pensaernïaeth. Mae’r ddau’n cael eu gweld yn drosiadau i’r corff a phrofiad dynol. Mae gwisg yn ein diffinio ac yn ein dadunigoliaethu ac, yn yr ystyr hwn, mae’n sefyll ar yr ffiniau peryglus rhwng yr hunan a’r arall, y tu mewn a’r tu allan, y preifat a’r cyhoeddus.

Golyga fy mhrofiad fel gwneuthurydd gwisgoedd a’r ffordd rwyf wedi trosi prosesau tecstiliau i elfennau cerfluniol ers hynny, fy mod mewn sefyllfa ragorol i archwilio’r berthynas hon. Rwyf yn archwilio elfennau strwythurol dillad a phensaernïaeth mewn perthynas â’u defnyddiau.

Rwyf yn aml yn arbrofi â deunyddiau adeiladu a pheirianyddol wrth ddefnyddio technegau a geir yn y diwydiant tecstiliau er mwyn creu fy nefnyddiau cerfluniol fy hun. Fy nod yw codi’r elfennau addurniadol o ddillad ac adeiladau gan eu trosi i ffurfio’r elfennau adeiladol yn fy ngherfluniaeth.

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 For anymore information about the exhibitions please contact:

Eve Ropek or Carys Worsdale

etr@aber.ac.uk or cdw@aber.ac.uk

(+44) 01970622887 or 01970621903

Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Aberystwyth University

Penglais Campus

Ceredigion

SY23 3DE

Carys Worsdale

Exhibition Assistant Cynorthwy-ydd Arddangosfa

Aberystwyth Arts Centre Canolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth University  Prifysgol Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth

SY23 3DE

Tel  Ffon 01970 621634 / 621903

Email  Ebost cdw@aber.ac.uk

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