- Venue
- High Cross House
- Starts
- Saturday, January 12, 2013
- Ends
- Sunday, March 3, 2013
- Address
- National Trust High Cross House, Dartington Hall Estate, Devon TQ9 6ED
- Location
- South West England
LEGACY: FIVE SCHEMES FIRST VARIATION.GWENAËL BÉLANGER / BLUE CURRY / KAREN HENDERSON / JAMES McLARDY / RICHARD STONE. CURATED BY CARL SLATER.High Cross House in Dartington, managed by the National Trust is one of the UK’s most important modernist sites for contemporary buildings. ‘Five Schemes, First Variation’ is an exhibition involving five international and emerging artists that makes play with the setting of this iconic modernist house set within a place that has historic significance in the development and examination of contemporary ideas. The motivation behind this curated body of work is to suggest the potential in developing new ‘systems’ of display and to acknowledge that by placing contemporary art within this environment, care is to be taken to consider the character and integrity of the building, allowing works to be re-presented and others implemented as newly conceived ideas. The placing of work within a modernist space that echoes powerful resonances and order, creates an overall effect far greater than the individual elements within its walls. All works are pitched somewhere between the notions of domesticity, conceptual agenda and the philosophy of an international modernist movement – rooted to formalities and restraints, ‘inheriting’ a legacy of historical and rigid frameworks, made now to be refined and challenged.
