WINTER JOURNEY 2009 ~ An Exhibition at Art Space Gallery : 4 December 2009 - 16 January 2010
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Winter Journey 2009

4 Dec. 2009 - 16 Jan 2010

"Three Figures " by  JOHN DAVIES

John Davies

Paul Gopal-Chowdhury

Timothy Hyman

Henry Kondracki

December sees the opening of Art Space Gallery’s annual Winter Journey exhibition, an exhibition that takes its name from Schubert’s Winterreise song cycle set to Wilhelm Müller’s poems which describe an allegorical journey of the heart. This year’s Winter Journey brings together the work of four artists who are deeply concerned with the nature of the world they live in and their relationship to it. Drawing on their own personal histories and references to myth, literature and to philosophy we see each artist examining their own identity through the act of looking, and depicting the world as they see it. Like Schubert’s hero they describe a journey both painful and enlightening.

John Davies works in mixed media creating sculpture that strips the figure to its raw emotional state. The ingredients of Paul Gopal-Chowdhury’s apocalyptical paintings are life and the passage of time; souls moving from one life to the next might emerge as tufts of grass or insects and guardians stand watchful at the entrances to these journeys.

Tim Hyman’s world is a kaleidoscope of fractured images of London that are an investigation of his own place in that city; where he fits in and in what way he belongs. Henry Kondracki on the other hand takes his native Edinburgh and the seaside resorts of Northern England as his subject and brings wit and humour to the desolate world that he sees around him

"love in the City before and after the developers came" by PAUL GOPAL-CHOWDHURY
"London slung over the Shoulder " by TIMOTHY HYMAN
"Ice Cream Van" by HENRY KONDRACKI

 

 

 

WINTERREISE :
Schubert composed this cycle of 24 songs, based on Wilhelm Müller's cycle of poems:
"Poems from the posthumous papers of an itenerant horn player" during 1827-8 shortly before his death.

Titles of the songs, translated:

1. Good Night
2. The Weather Vane
3. Frozen Tears
4. Congealing
5. The Lime Tree
6. Water Torrents
7. On the River
8. Looking Back
9. Will-o'-the Wisp
10. Rest
11. Dream of Spring
12. Loneliness

13. The Post
14. The Old Head
15. The Crow
16. Last Hope
17. In the Village
18. Stormy Morning
19. Deception
20. The Signpost
21. The Inn
22. Courage
23. The Other Suns
24. The Organ Grinder
Schubert rules OK
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