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31 OCTOBER - 1 DECEMBER 1996: North Star ANTON HART The 1996 component of the stretcher case season kicked off with an exhibition by Anton Hart which referenced ideas of minimalism and colour field practice, however confusing and problematising these through the combination of these with other references to historical practices, and those autonomous to the work and project itself. The exhibition presented monochromes, found objects, computer scanned images, text on glass and figurative images in a body of work that investigated the construction and status of the significant, for want of a better word, 'meme' (unit of information) within our readings of an artwork or exhibition. Where, or what is our point of reference, particularly if we are attempting to identify these in formally polysemic discourse? None of the elements were heirarchisised: each occupied the same plateau of event and of loading producing an uncanny shift when attention was shifted from one component to the other, as if sudden changes in scale were taking place, a certain shudder of opticality and understanding: initially denying -and therefore foregrounding - the fixed point implied in the title. |
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