The call of the weird
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The IKON Gallery in Birmingham, England, is currently staging an exhibition entitled 'E.S.P - Contemporary Artists Investigate the Paranormal.' This exhibition includes Susan Hiller's video installation 'Wild Talents,' which gives a very convincing simulation of what it would be like to possess paranormal powers. The National Portrait Gallery in London, England, is staging an exhibition entitled 'The Painter's Eye,' which presents the first results of an art-science experiment focusing on artist Humphrey Ocean. His gaze was monitored by an eye-tracker and his brain activity was assessed by a brain-scanner while he was making a series of portrait drawings.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1999
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The project: to reconstruct the lost works of a dead and unjustly neglected artist. The result: a case of misattribution or just mistaken identity?
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The Tate Gallery in St Ives, England, is currently staging an exhibition of works by Dutch artist Florette Dijkstra. She has reconstructed all the known works of Marlow Moss, a British female artist who lived between 1890 and 1958. Moss was influenced by Mondrian, and in turn influenced Mondrian in her use of the Double Line. All Dijkstra's reconstructions are done half-size. They use standardized colours, and do not have the very strong brushwork of Neo-Plasticism.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1997
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'No disrespect to art intended, but you can't just designate a 'religious' role to it.' (art as a secular religion; Tate Gallery, London, UK)
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The exhibition entitled 'Rites of Passage: Art for the End of the Century' currently being held at the Tate Gallery focuses on art as a secular religion. It covers sculptures, installations and video-pieces which show the artist as a 'passeur,' or a priest of this secular religion. The overall impression is that it is not possible to designate a 'religious' role to art.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1995
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