- Venue
- Acme Project Space
- Starts
- Friday, June 10, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, June 26, 2011
- Address
- 44 Bonner Road, E2 9JS
- Location
- London
Briony Anderson / Paul McGee, George Charman, Amy Gee, Adam Knight, Haroon Mirza, Emma Smith, K. Yoland Curated by first year students on the MA Curating Contemporary Art (inspire) Royal College of Art Sum Parts brings together work by eight contemporary artists currently on residencies at Acme Studios, London. Inspired by the Penrose Triangle the exhibition explores how we might comprehend something as a whole while simultaneously understanding its composite parts. First drawn by Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934, the Triangle was popularised in the 1950s by mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, for whom it represented “impossibility in its purest form”. Whilst it can be understood pictorially in two-dimensions, it is un-renderable in three-dimensions and as an object only gains its form and unity through the cognition of the viewer. The artists included in Sum Parts articulate the various complexities and possibilities of this idea, through works in a variety of media from sound installation and film, to photography and performance.
