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12th
March – 29th May 2010
Private View Thursday 11th March 2010, 6pm – 9pm
GV Art Gallery, 49 Chiltern Street, London, W1U 6LY
Leonardo da Vinci, in the 15th century, envisaged that every
small part of nature mirrored the action of the whole; he saw
the human body a ‘lesser world’ – lesser in scale but not in
wonder and complexity. Everything, according to the Renaissance
man, was related to everything else. Leonardo saw connections
where we see only differences.
Art and Science: According to C P Snow, the scientist who, in
1959, famously lectured in Cambridge about the ‘Two Cultures’:
‘The clashing point of two subjects, two disciplines, two
cultures – of two galaxies, so far as that goes – ought to
produce creative chances. In the history of mental activity that
has been where some of the breakthroughs came.’
The chances are there now. But what is it that still separates
the disciplines and its practitioners, and what is it that
attracts one to the other? Where and how do artists and
scientists work, and how come they end up not having much to do
with each other sometimes for the whole stretch of their
careers?
Experiments is the first in a series of unique, exhibitions
curated by Artakt with GV Art. It brings together the work of
four artists whose practice develops with close and productive
collaborations with scientists. In a rare opportunity for
professionals of each discipline to develop a relationship with
each other, the artists and scientists
explore the others productive processes, investigating the
mythology of ‘neat laboratory worker’ versa ‘chaotic, creative
artist.’
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