Crisp London
3 Newman Passage
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Richard Wearn: Untitled (Models of Gordon Matta-Clark’s House Divided (1974), Robert Smithson’s Partially Buried Wooden Shed (1970), the first Mall constructed in America (1956), Tabernacle from John Borman’s Zardoz (1973) all placed on-site from a tourist map of locations associated with the May 1968 uprising in Paris, France), 2009. Documentation of sculptural intervention / courtesy the artist & CRISP London/Los Angeles
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20 Jan 2010 – 27 Feb 2010
Wednesdays–Saturdays (noon–6pm)
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Tube: Tottenham Court Road
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LA-based Richard Wearn's wryly ambiguous art combines performance, photography, video and a healthy obsession with history. "Untitled" features photos of tiny architectural models placed around Paris in locations synonymous with the May 1968 uprising. "Trouw (Fidelity)" meanwhile is a video installation documenting the changing light atop an Amsterdam building that boasts a history of fomenting progressive quasi-anarchy, from WWII resistance to modern-day raves. In both cases, his counter-intuitive method of blending the past (what has been lost) with the present (the action he takes) leads straight to the future (what might be gained by using one's imagination).
