{"id":295,"date":"2014-01-03T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T12:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/?p=295"},"modified":"2014-01-03T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T12:03:07","slug":"coming-soon-winter-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/2014\/01\/03\/coming-soon-winter-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"COMING SOON: WINTER JOURNEY"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARCUS REES ROBERTS – WINTER JOURNEY<\/p>\n

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Monday 20 January \u2013 Friday 11 April 2014<\/p>\n

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There is an expression in French to describe dusk: \u2018entre chien et loup\u2019. At the end of the day, in the dying of the light, it is hard to distinguish \u2018between dog and wolf\u2019 and objects take on an indeterminate menace in this state of perceptual ambiguity. This is the moment inhabited by the art of Marcus Rees Roberts.<\/p>\n

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Working together with Pratt Contemporary, Studio 3 Gallery presents an exhibition of the darkly poetic work of Marcus Rees Roberts. The focus of the exhibition will be recent short films from The Winter Journey<\/i> cycle, and related work in diverse media including By the Black Window<\/i> (2013) \u2013 a work consisting of 24 drawings conceived for Studio 3 Gallery \u2013 and paintings from the Echo Song<\/i> series (2012-13). Also exhibited are the book works Ash to Dark Water<\/i> (2005), The Sad Sea<\/i> (2009) and Night of Four Moons<\/i> (2009), and the sets of prints Between Dog and Wolf<\/i> (2008), Memory\u2019s Wound<\/i> (2010) and Echo Song<\/i> (2012).<\/p>\n

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In his current work Rees Roberts has taken inspiration from the poetry and writings of Mikl\u00f3s Radn\u00f3ti, Federico Garci\u00e1 Lorca, Paul Celan and Walter Benjamin: all of whom were victims of fascist persecution. Underlying his concern with modernist stylistic experimentation is the insistent political question of how the artist should bear witness to the atrocities of our times. Rich in poetic connotations and thematic leitmotifs, it is uncertain whether the Winter Journey<\/i> envisaged by Rees Roberts is Radn\u00f3ti\u2019s forced march, Schubert\u2019s Winterreise<\/i>, or Odysseus\u2019s voyage to Hades\u2019 \u2018dark shore\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Marcus Rees Roberts studied English at Cambridge, before moving to the Slade School of Art where he studied Film Theory and Printmaking, and was awarded the Slade Prize in 1977. He lectured on printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art from 1980 until 1995 when he moved to London. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at West Dean College in Sussex. His work is represented in leading collections throughout the UK including the British Museum, the V&A, UCL Art Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, Scottish Arts Council and Pallant House Gallery.<\/p>\n

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Marcus Rees Roberts \u2013 Winter Journey<\/i> is on display at the Studio 3 gallery from Monday 20 January \u2013 Friday 11 April 2014. The gallery is located on the University of Kent\u2019s Canterbury campus, within the School of Arts\u2019 Jarman Building, Canterbury CT2 7UG. The gallery is open to the public, Monday \u2013 Friday, 9am \u2013 5pm.<\/p>\n

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Website:<\/p>\n

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