'Temporary Solutions', Dan Wilde, digital image, 2009
Wednesday 14 April 2010
We are pleased to invite you back to the MOVING GALLERY. Our programme continues with ‘To think we started at the bottom…’ 2010, a Solo show by Newcastle based artist Dan Wilde.
Preview: Friday April 16st, 6~8pm, MOVING GALLERY, 67b Westgate Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1
‘To think we started at the bottom…’
Dan Wilde’s new series of silkscreen and photo-polymer prints consist of adapted reproductions of advertisements taken from 1960’s architectural magazines. Such adverts promote somewhat mundane products that are synonymous with modernist construction and habitual modernity - such as polystyrene roofing tiles, bitumen products, room dividers and polypropylene chairs. Through the appropriation and removal of certain intrinsic commercial information in the ads, their original context is lost, taking on a more universal rendering in terms of modernism and modernity. Their messages of idealism and utopias can now be read critically; with an ambiguity that references the past but touches upon modernism’s struggle and failings.
Dan Wilde is a Newcastle based artist and recent exhibitions include: ‘Engage - A University and Shieldfield community collaboration, Gallery North, Northumbria University. ‘Walls and Bridges’, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick. ‘Emerging Artists’, Newcastle/Gateshead Art Fair, The Sage, Gateshead.
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