Celestial Contrakt – a group multidisciplinary project organised and curated by London based artist Christina Mitrentse and artist/printmaker Jonas Ranson. The project has been presented at Schwartz gallery premises at Hackney wick next to olympic site 2012 as it necessitates large dimensions of space.
(the project has been Selected at Top 5 shows in London by Time Out as part of First Thursdays programme that will include talks and an late private viewing of audience brought by whitechapel gallery).
Having met in 2008 whilst working on an international production at NDSM-werf, in Amsterdam, the duo have gone on to work together on numerous projects including their most recent collaboration for the public project commission at Greenwich Foot Tunnel in 2009. Mitrentse and Ranson have a shared creative context within which to explore similarities and differences arising from one another artistic practices.
Once again they come together in the Celestial Contrakt, a project that has developed from their common desire to push artistic practices concerned conceptually and aesthetically with the theme of the Celestial realm. ‘We intend to offer an internal reading of the Celestial world and not an objective’ description’
Dominic Allan . Nikos Alexiou . Alex Bunn . Andrew Hladky . Bern Roche Farrelly .Stine Ljungdalh . Christina Mitrentse . Jonas Ranson . Lee Wagstaff . Marc Wayland
The exhibition Celestial Contrakt navigates through the terrain of the ‘celestial and ‘ethereal’ in an attempt to offer different entry and exit points to the theme and suggests alternate possibilities within the experiential environments. Schwartz Gallery is formed as an uncharted territory which provisionally describes two conceptions of artworks as ‘terrestrial’ and ‘celestial’. These create non-linear journeys that look beyond Materialist thought. The project brings artist and viewer together to a conception in which the ‘terrestrial’ world does not yet exist and can only arise in the sphere of the imagination.
A diverse group of international and London-based artists become wanderers in space and time, drawing from a vast fluid field of collective ideas. The celestial as the nocturnal experience filters through from anthropological investigations, focusing on the ontological dimension; the impulse of irrationality in scientific and architectural artifacts and the surreal poetics of contemporary technology which appear to have cosmological associations.
Organised ,funded and curated by C.Mitrentse & Jonas Ranson the exhibition presented at Schwartz Gallery premises Hackney wick ,London.
