Bryan has entitled his residency “Wall Works One and Two”.
A representation, or re-presentation, of an extant artwork within a new artwork is awkward. How much might this new work – based as it is on other works – depend for its success on the quality of the source material? Can existing work be repurposed or engaged with in a profitable way?
Over about a month Bryan Eccleshall will create two wall works, each in a separate gallery at Bank Street Arts, that echo older works. Firstly, the six most popular postcards from the Graves Art Gallery will be reproduced, actual size, as line drawings. The source material for these drawings will be the postcards themselves, rather then the actual paintings. Consequently the re-making of the images will be subject to fractured faulty translation. To relive ”After” click here
Once this first installation is completed Bryan will move to another gallery to recreate a curious image from art’s past. In 1911 the Mona Lisa was stolen form the Louvre by an Italian nationalist hoping to return it to what he believed was the painting’s homeland. While it was missing – it turned up two years later – a photograph was taken of the space it had occupied. Bryan will turn an absence into a presence by painting that image directly onto the wall. For a timeline of these events, click here
Bryan hopes these installations, that are not two halves of a whole, will create dialogues: between himself, the works themselves and the source material and with Angelina Ayers, writer in residence at Bank Street, and somewhere along the line there’s an audience to fit in. These dialogues are likely to be bumbling and fractured with misunderstandings and blind alleys.
As the installations progress a written document will be created as a supplement to the wall pieces. Though this will principally be a written dialogue between Bryan and Angelina, anyone can add their words.
