DELOITTE IGNITE 2011 AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN, 3 & 4 September 2011 Duncan has been commissioned by Mike Figgis, who is curating Ignite this year, to create two new large works - the first one will be hung in the Box Office area, known as The Link. The second will be worked on by Duncan at Covent Garden where he has set up a small studio and he would like to invite you to visit him - he will be there approximately from noon to 1800 hours on Saturday 3rd September and from noon to 1700 hours on Sunday 4thSeptember 2011. Duncan’s mobile is 07949 447718 and his email is duncanfmacaskill@aol.com Further information about Duncan can be found on www.duncanmacaskill.com Hope you can come and if you can't the works will remain on view in The Link at Covent Garden for the coming year....
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Selected Biography of the artist:
Duncan MacAskill Artist Title of work: A man's a man for all that “Duncan MacAskill’s working method skewers attempts at definition. There are paintings, sculptures, architectural interventions (the residue of performances) and sound-works, some using the space, others grafted on. – this is more like a cinematic journey than a typical gallery going experience. – there is something very European, very elemental about it.” Martin Herbert; Art Critic of Art Review MacAskill graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1966. He left his birthplace Clydebank for Glasgow and then on to London in 1976. His practise is abstract paintings; of which the critic and writer Andrew Lambirth observes,"… MacAskill’s unerring eye has orchestrated this diverse matter into the most satisfying of arrangements: you are confronted with a beautifully composed installation of abstract and symbolic forms, packed with colour accents and tonal variations. The exhibition betrays a wealth of invention – here equally are comment, concept, formal values and interpretation. Perhaps ultimately a quest for identity". Collaboration is at the heart of Duncan's production ,reinvention and innovative originality. In 1994 Duncan had a sell out show at Reeds Wharf Gallery in London, followed by large solo shows at Djanogly Gallery in Nottingham and the major one-man retrospective at The Wapping Project, London called "Acoustic Shadows" in 1997. Recent exhibitions have been at Ferguson McDonald Gallery and the CCA - Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow - a multi-media promenade through 12 spaces of the new about the life and works of Elizabeth Smart the Canadian author. A collaboration with Cathie Boyd(Cryptic Theatre), composers Anthea Haddow, Glasgow, and Diane Labrosse, Montreal. Duncan MacAskill’s installation in CCA2 was composed of 8 tonnes of Sitka Spruce sawn by the artist and made into a log wall of 30’ x 15’, 600 wooden books, small flocked paintings and a Perspex poetry sculpture. More recently Duncan has been working throughout Europe in Germany, France and Lithuania on a series called the Tale of Three Cities: Druskininkai, Lithaunia then; Berlin, Germany and finally Glasgow, Scotland. Urban Memories: A performance of specially commissioned music for A Tale of Three Cities, pieces by Judith Weir and the composer Andrew Poppy. More collaborations have informed Duncan practise and visa-versa; such as Bodycraze (2003) with Wayne McGregor. In 2000 at Sadler's WElls; Off The Wall/Live Performance: in 3 parts; Laurie Booth performed with music by Hans Peter Kuhn. Ragnild Olsen and Anna Williams accompanied by music from Glyn Perrin and Matteo Fargion. In 1999; Time and the Room theatre design and installations for Botho Strauss’s play at the Nottingham Playhouse and the Edinburgh Festival, collaboration with director Martin Duncan. MacAskill worked at New York's La Mama's Theatre with Contemporary Choreographer, Amir Hosseinpour on Is That All There Is? in 1993. As curator Andrew Patrizio writes on MacAskill practise; “MacAskill is both an artist who appreciatively wonders at the world, and also a curious one, true to his age, for whom inquisitiveness and lack of dogma have led him to pursue the practise of art in many ways but always keeping open the possibility for the instinctive urge to overtake him.” As it beautifully has here with these stunning NEW commission's for Mike Figgis's IGNITE season 2011. The Works will be on show here till September 2012. Follow his observations, shows, and comments on his installation residency on |