The exhibition will be a range of modern art installations around the building drawing inspiration from the building's creator, Carlo Gatti.
Eight emerging artists create some new work in a historic space, in this exhibition, described as a "homage to and appropriation of the narrative space of a 19th century ice cream-maker". The subtle slip of a mirror provoking subjective and citational memory; the slight rock of a Victorian bench sunk in a plaster slab; the silent call of the moniker of a boat's name from the South Atlantic Ocean: The work in this exhibition both evokes and renounces the determinant machinations of narrative, with monuments which are not - an exhibition un-curated. The narrative exigencies cobble upon one another the very place of the London Canal Museum; it is at once a tribute to Carlo Gatti, a celebrated Victorian vendor of gelati and a setting for the investigation of the history of London's Regent's Canal. Running over with maps of proposed, but never constructed waterways, the etymology of "legging it", a plastic horse, tin cans, and two hallowed, redolent, and reflective ice reserves, the space itself both invites and denies further occupation. To the tales told, we add our own.
Nick Hornby
Abigail Hunt
Liane Lang
Patricia Lennox
Andy Parker
Kieren Reed
Sinta Tantra
The exhibition has its own website:
http://www.gattiexhibition.com
(this external website is not provided by London Canal Museum)
Museums are great places to showcase art and this exhibition is an outpouring of non-traditional youthful artistic talent in a decidedly non-traditional setting. The history of the museum building is the inspiration for the show which will comprise a series of installations in different parts of the building, not a single contiguous exhibit. Eight talented artistic minds are creating works that will intrigue, excite, or amaze you!
The exhibition was the brainchild of artist Nick Hornby whose Disney-style pink castle (pictured) was towed along the Grand Union to float on a pond at Camley Street Natural Park, not far away from the museum. The museum is delighted to support this art-in-museums project.
