Events - Special Events, Caroline Locke, Sound Fountains
26 Nov 2011 - 27 Nov 2011
Drop in performance times, free Sat 26 Nov 11am – 4pm and Sun 27 Nov, 11am – 4pm
‘Jazz’, an exhibition by John Goto at Gallery On, Seoul, Korea
6.9. – 2.10.2011
John Goto is a lifelong student of jazz. As a schoolboy he painted jazz scenes and now returns to the theme many years later with two new bodies of work – ‘West End Blues’ and ‘Dreams of Jelly Roll’.
‘West End Blues’ is a tribute to migrant jazz musicians who played in London’s West End between 1919-74. Goto modeled the male musicians himself, having first studied their characteristic gestures and style. The silhouette figures are placed outside the venues they once played at, many of which are much changed. The musicians appear like spectres in the contemporary streets of Soho, conflating past and present in strange and evocative ways.
This series was also launched, in collaboration with Dr. Matthew Leach, as an Augmented Reality project outside Gallery On. Installation shots can be viewed at http://www.johngoto.org.uk/views/Jazz/index.htm
‘Dreams of Jelly Roll’, which is the second series, concerns the life of the great jazz pianist and composer Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1885-1941).
Jelly Roll left us a strange and dreamlike account of his life in over eight hours of recorded interviews made in 1938 by Alan Lomax, Folk Music Curator at The Library of Congress. Morton’s critics have accused him of self-aggrandisement and braggartry in these recordings and yet his testimony remains ‘the first significant attempt at constructing a history of the music’, and Morton himself emerges as ‘the first theorist and intellectual of jazz’ according to the historian Gunther Schuller.
Rather than interpreting his exaggerations and fabrications as signs of an immoral and unstable personality, as many critics have, the aim here is to take a creative and imaginative approach, informed by psychoanalysis, to the possible meanings behind his daydreams and tall stories.
This series will next be shown at the Freud Museum in London in 2012.
Derby based artist Jayne Falconer has destroyed 18 pairs of her own shoes in a kiln to create porcelain sculptures in her exhibition, Eighteen, at Derby Museum and Art Gallery from 13 August to 30th October.
Jayne Falconer’s work comprises 18 porcelain shoe sculptures set against a backdrop of 18 photographic images of each corresponding shoe. The photographs are a systematic documentation of the shoes Jayne has bought and worn over many years. These shoes reflect her physical presence, but in the process of making Eighteen they have been destroyed in a kiln at 1280°, leaving only traces of the fabric as if they were the artist’s fading memories, integrated into the resulting porcelain vessels. There are three interwoven elements in Eighteen: the timeline of shoe images depicts Jayne’s journey through life; the sensual porcelain forms evoke the female body and lastly, the hard-edged acrylic and metal shapes that the sculptures sit on, suggest traits normally attributed to the ‘masculine’ as well as symbolising the shoe-box. Rules are part of the artist’s creative process; her feet are nine inches long, and two times nine equals eighteen. She also uses eighteen pounds of porcelain for each ceramic form. The first pair of shoes in the sequence dates from when she was eighteen, the moment she celebrated coming of age. The exhibition finishes on 30 October.
Entry to Derby Museum and Art Gallery is free and it is open from 11-5pm Tuesday to Saturday and from 1-4pm on Sunday. It is closed on Mondays.
Talk: Jayne Falconer will be in conversation with artist Kate Smith in the gallery on 29 September from 1-2pm. Free entry to the talk; no booking necessary. Visitors will have an opportunity to leave their own trace, imprint, drawing, or footprint in the gallery adjacent to Jayne’s exhibition in a special hands-on exhibition called Traces of Being which opens on 13 August.
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