lundi 6 septembre 2010

MATTHEW DARBYSHIRE

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http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/altermodern/explore.shtm

"Born 1977, Cambridge, UK. Lives and works: London, UK

Matthew Darbyshire's installations draw from contemporary culture, aspirational design products, pop, film and music, imparting them with the aesthetics of visual art. Darbyshire regularly uses elements of interior design, exhibition display and architecture to examine contemporary social, cultural and consumer habits. In Blades House 2008, a recreation of an ex-local authority flat found across the street from his gallery, he designed an entire living environment, complete with folding bicycle, framed prints by Michael Craig-Martin and Robin Day school chair - all seen as the domestic requirements of an aspiring thirty-something urban professional. In Darbyshire's installation for Altermodern, Palac 2009, he draws parallels between elements of the Neo-classical architecture of the Duveen galleries at Tate Britain and elements of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw - a Socialist Realist building by the Russian architect Lev Rudnev that was constructed in 1955 as a gift by the USSR to the people of Warsaw. These shared elements have then been subjected to a 'face-lift' to include features typical of contemporary buildings for cultural regeneration, in particular that of Will Alsop's ill-fated community-arts initiative, The Public, in West Bromwich.
Darbyshire's 're-dressing' of the entrance to the main galleries creates an alternative threshold to the exhibition space. It seeks to analyse the ideologies and social policies that underpin large cultural buildings such as Tate. Darbyshire collapses the boundaries of these buildings, their histories, contexts and geographical locations, so that each element of design exists simultaneously as past/present/here/elsewhere."



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