- Venue
- Persistence Works, Yorkshire Artspace
- Starts
- Monday, January 26, 2009
- Ends
- Friday, March 6, 2009
- Address
- Yorkshire ArtSpace Society Persistence Works 21 Brown Street Sheffield S1 2BS
- Location
- Yorkshire
For its first exhibition in 2009, Persistence Works will show new work by Clinton de Menezes, entitled Probe. The works featured in the exhibition are based on a vast system of themes and references relating to the human condition, to concepts of space and to the processes of regeneration and degeneration. They also critically investigate the role of contemporary art practice and the function of the art object within society. Explored through an emotive use of material and medium the work has been born out of physically demanding processes which are integral to the their reading. Burnt, buried, scratched, punctured, drawn over, covered up and painted into. Through these processes the work accumulates a visual density and physical materiality which are equal to the content itself, which ranges over sources as diverse as history, physics, astronomy, biology, ecology, patterns of migration, landscape, utopia, mythology, alchemy, discovery, conquest, cultural identity, apocalypse and belief.
