‘NEW Wheat, NEW Mud, NEW Machine’ – new exhibition by Poster Club at Cooper Gallery
Published On Fri 26 Feb 2016 by Grant Hill
‘NEW Wheat, NEW Mud, NEW Machine’, a major new exhibition from Glasgow-based artists’ group Poster Club will open at the University of Dundee’s Cooper Gallery next month.
The show stems from Poster Club’s participation in ‘CURRENT |????: Contemporary Art from Scotland’ at Shanghai Himalayas Art Museum. Curated by Cooper Gallery in collaboration with Chinese curators and organisations, CURRENT is a two year contemporary art exhibition and forum programme in Shanghai that showcases for the first time in China the distinctiveness of contemporary art made in Scotland
The exhibition at Cooper Gallery opens with an Artists’ Talk and Preview Evening on Thursday, 10th March and runs until 23rd April.
Printing slogans and symbols onto posters, garments and sculpture, Poster Club use the medium of print as a site for experimental collaborative practice. The title of the Cooper Gallery exhibition references the material properties of the objects represented in the exhibition, which was created during or inspired by the artists’ week-long residency in Shanghai last summer.
Cooper Gallery curator Sophia Hao said, “Poster Club position printmaking as an experimental site for collaborative practice. At the heart of their approach is a particular take on the manual and mechanistic processes of printmaking. They continually cite, revisit and reappraise their own artworks and this exhibition is an opening into an elusive play of visual and textual possibility.”
Collaborating and printing together for more than five years, Poster Club are the award-winning artists Anne-Marie Copestake, Charlie Hammond, Tom O'Sullivan, Nicolas Party, Ciara Phillips and Michael Stumpf. They have previously had major international exhibitions at galleries including Martha Street Studio in Winnipeg, USA, Platform in Glasgow and Eastside Projects in Birmingham.
Playing off its Chinese translation of ‘untimely’, CURRENT questions the political, social and economic discourses that contest this present moment and its apparition as culture. ‘NEW Wheat, NEW Mud, NEW Machine’ repositions Poster Club’s exhibition from Shanghai to Scotland, having been reimagined and made anew by the artists through their experience and subsequent reflections on their work in transnational space.
On 13th April, Poster Club will participate in the Cooper Gallery Forum ‘Here Was Elsewhere: A Memorandum of a Summer in Shanghai’. The Forum will share the experience gained and further expand the thoughts and discussions developed along the journey of making exhibitions in the context of China. The forum will feature artists who are involved in the CURRENT programme and specially invited speakers of leading curators, critics and museum directors from both China and UK.
‘NEW Wheat, NEW Mud, NEW Machine’ is free and open to all from 10am-5pm on weekdays and 11am-5pm each Saturday until 23rd April
More information is available by visiting http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/exhibitions/exhibitions/poster-club-new-wheat-new-mud-new-machine/, emailing exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk or calling 01382 385330.
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