ARTISTS / SIMON HOLLINGTON

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Simon Hollington picks up the end of the stick. The images are not photo
realistic, and are taken entirely out of context. Magicians performing tricks
are drawn without background or points of reference. The floating ladies
(and they are invariably ladies) could be seen as an entirely different image
rendered on the same page, but the stance of the magician implies that he
is control, the manipulator of the image. As drawings, as images of magic
they are bankrupt, and so any veracity of the image is redundant, and
any moment of the sublime removed, creating an entropy of drama. The
video 'Last Chance for a slow dance' (made in collaboration with Kypros
Kyprianou) carries on traditional illusionists and fake medium techniques
to create seemingly poltern activity. The piece questions observable
phenomena, the technologies of recording, and empirical data, and their
relationship and effect upon the viewer


Exhibitions

The Dark Arts (26.02.2009 to 21.03.2009)


Works

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Levitation 1, 2 and 3, 2009 by Simon Hollington

Levitation 1, 2 and 3, 2009

charcoal on paper

Series