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Sunday, 9 October 2022

Artlyst - Alexander de Cadenet And Michael Forbes October 2022 Diary

My October diary for Artlyst has mention of Alexander De Cadenet's Medici Family Skull Portraits, Michael Forbes: BLK THIS & BLK THAT … A STATE OF URGENCY and a range of Bible/book-based installations:

‘While discussing church commissions with Neil Walker, Head of Visual Arts Programming at Djanogly Gallery (part of the University of Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts), mention was made of John Newling’s ‘Sing Uncertainty’ project for St Mary’s Nottingham in 2010. ‘Singing Uncertainty’ was an a cappella choral work where questions from hymns found in the hymn book used at Newling’s school were individually sung in the order that the questions appeared in the hymn book. Newling’s aspiration for this project was that when performed in St Mary’s Church, the space would be filled with the fragility of a longed-for certainty. The project drew on earlier initiatives involving the same hymn book including ‘Skeleton’ (1994) for All Saints Church, Newcastle Upon Tyne where the hymn book was edited to show only the questions that were written in the hymns and ‘Stamping Uncertainty’ (2004) where each questioning phrase was stamped each individually and each was displayed on 152 lecterns arranged in rows throughout the Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral.

Another recent conversation also led to the discovery of a church exhibited book project exploring aspects of Christianity. Bernd Goering works sculpturally with old Bibles to create Bible objects – for example, a Bible with acupuncture needles stuck in it, a Bible as a lego brick, a cut Bible whose pieces form a cross – that make visible the different effects that the Bible had and still has. Goering’s Bible sculptures were most recently exhibited at Peterskirche Basel in 2019. The Revd Dr Chris Szejnmann shared the catalogue from this exhibition with me, as well as the conversations he has subsequently had with the artist.Seeing these works reminded me of other book-based projects exploring aspects of religion.'

See also my Artlyst interview with Alexander de Cadenet, a review of an exhibition of his work I organised at St Stephen Walbrook, plus a report of the Art Awakening Humanity conference I organised together with him. 

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Curtis Mayfield - New World Order.
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Friday, 15 April 2016

Post-pop exploration into philosophical and spiritual questions


Unicorn Publishing Group have recently published a monograph on the work of Alexander De Cadenet written by the renowned art historian Edward Lucie-Smith and looking at the evolution of De Cadenet’s work in painting, sculpture and photography over the past 20 years. 

De Cadenet's works are both profound and humorous, as if directed by a mischievous jester spirit. In the book, we see how his art combines exploration into philosophical and spiritual questions, such as the meaning of life & death and the nature of human consciousness, with an idiosyncratic, 'post-pop' aesthetic.

The book was launched last night at the Andipa Gallery where, as part of an exhibition of his works, de Cadenet unveiled the first in a new series of skull portraits featuring King Richard III of England based on the x-rays made of the late monarch following his discovery beneath a car park in Leicester in 2012.

De Cadenet says, "The portraits challenge the traditional facility of art to keep the life/identity of a subject alive in the minds of future generations - as they present a forensic X-ray record of the subject's remains as opposed to a recognisable likeness of their face.

For me, Richard III is one of the ultimate skull portraits and I feel honoured to be able to present him using this concept as he is a part of our country's history."

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King's X - Over My Head.


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