Pavilion presents Celine Condorelli. Additionals, an exhibition on view 26 October 2012–19 January 2013.
Celine Condorelli, Study for Additionals (Structure for Communicating), 2012.
Artist Céline Condorelli takes a de-commissioned TV studio in an iconic Chamberlin, Powell and Bonn building from 1970, as the site for Additionals, a series of sculptures that appear in installation, on film and in text.
Additionals simultaneously references conceptual art, the methodologies of architectural proposals, and filmmaking through art direction and set design. Arranged in a multi-part sculptural installation, the prop-like objects make temporary adjustments to existing conditions, while drawing from Pistoletto’s Oggetti in Meno (objects one can do without, usually translated as Minus Objects, 1965–1966).
Additionals was developed during a publishing project initiated by Will Holder and Beatrice Gibson, who invited a group of practitioners to work together using Cornelius Cardew’s 1967 score The Tiger’s Mind. Each practitioner adopted a character from the score with Jesse Ash as ‘Wind,’ Condorelli as ‘Tiger,’ Gibson as ‘Circle,’ Holder as ‘Amy,’ John Tilbury as ‘Mind,’ and Alex Waterman as ‘Tree.’
Additionals articulates the relationships between the characters through quasi-functional structures, such as Structure for Reading and Structure for Preparing a Piano. Additionals features as the props in Gibson’s new film, titled The Tiger’s Mind (commissioned by The Showroom, CAC Brétigny and Index, Stockholm). During the exhibition, the structures will be activated through a performance by Holder as ‘Amy,’ and a music composition by Waterman as ‘Tree.’
Céline Condorelli works with art and architecture, combining a number of approaches from developing structures for ‘supporting’ to broader enquiries into forms of commonality and discursive sites. Recent exhibitions include The Parliament, Archive of Disobedience, Umeå Bildmuseet, Sweden, Social Fabric, Iniva, London and Lund Konsthall, Sweden and Surrounded by the Uninhabitable, SALT, Istanbul.
A programme of critical events accompanies the two commissions. See www.pavilion.org.uk for more information.
Partners: Arts Council England, Brass Founders, Creative Space Management, École des Beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole, Henry Moore Foundation, Homes and Communities Agency, Leeds City Council, Les Ateliers de Rennes, The Showroom, and University of Leeds.
TV Studio, Roger Stevens Building
University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
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