25 St. James's Street
London  SW1A 1HG

4 August - 19 September 2004   

Sean Cummins cleave                                                                  

To split with or as if with a sharp instrument; to penetrate or pass through something, such as water or air; to fit; to be adapted; to assimilate; to join together;  to adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.

For this exhibition at the Economist Building Sean Cummins has made a short film based on two journeys through the structure of the building. In the film, Cummins uses a genre contemporary with the building (1964) to invoke the paradox of physical immersion in architecture through film. Recent architecture echoes the sets of some influential science fiction films. Using a building such as this as the backdrop for a film closes the loop. The artist re-uses the way in which buildings are represented in important films as a counterpoint to this structure.

The film was made with the assistance of Jonno Smith at Shooters (Cameraman) and Mopsa Wolff (Video Editor).

To coincide with this exhibition The Nottingham Trent University is publishing a companion pamphlet in which the authors (Peg Rawes, Lisa Panting and Andrew Banister) reflect on aspects of spatial immersion and our experience of architecture.

Sean Cummins completed his MA at Goldsmith’s College, London in 2000 and was a recipient of an Abbey Award at the British School in Rome in 1998.                                                                                     

Anthony Gross Object Passing

                               Anthony Gross has made translucent digital prints of a modernist house and garden that are suspended in the windows of the Economist foyer. Illuminated by sunlight, the prints are transparent enough to see through to the outside urban surroundings.

This notion of extending a conceptual or fictional modernist space is continued in a computer animation presented on plasma screens in and amongst the foyer furniture. A camera slowly pans around two detailed environments slowly mirroring the objects they contain.

The general sense of the animation is that of a fractured parallel journey, a story of time passing with eras and styles slowly looping. The animations and images are made by sourcing ready-made 3D models from a vast on-line community. Individual models are laboriously customised and combined in large scenes like a virtual film set.                                                                                                                              Anthony Gross graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2001 and recently co-founded the gallery temporarycontemporary. www.tempcontemp.co.uk

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