MULTIPLICATION

POEM

POEM

2000 Jonathan Callan (1961 − )

The text of Poemhas been cut using Macken Discharge Carbon Dioxide lasers; then bound into a book approximately two-thirds of the way through and clear silicone then extruded through the cut text. “Most of my preoccupations are based around studies and experiments with materiality. I try to engineer situations where I can begin to improvise ‘conversations’ with stuff. The work is the result, regardless of scale, of investigations into the inherent physicality of a particular material, process or situation. Silicone seems to behave with both the viscosity of paint and the physical characterisations of gelatinous plastic. Text becomes fluid, as if hand-written, it also becomes literally embodied. In some ways I see text as a carrier of second hand information. Perhaps I’m trying to make it into an object of first hand experience.”

Multiplication, The British Council 2001 text © The Multiple Store

 

  • Accession Number P7318
  • Dimensions 39 X 2.5 X 26 CM
  • Media LASER-CUT BOOK WITH SILICONE

Past exhibitions

Space for Mind, Space for Art

  • 2012
    • UK, London, The Spring, Vauxhall

READING BY LIGHT

  • 2009
    • UK, Barnsley, The Civic

MULTIPLICATION

  • 2006
    • Chile, Santiago, Instituto De Arte Moderno
    • Colombia, Barranquilla, Museo De Arte Moderno
    • Colombia, Cali, Museo La Tertulia
    • Colombia, Bogota, Galeria Santa Fe De Bogota
  • 2005
    • Venezuela, Caracas, Museo De Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero
    • Venezuela, Maracaibo, Museo Arte Contemporaneo De Zulia
  • 2004
    • Albania, Tirana, Galeria Kombetare E Arteve
    • Macedonia, Skopje, Museum Of Modern Art
    • Bulgaria, Varna, Varna Art Museum
    • Bulgaria, Plovdiv, Plovdiv City Art Gallery
    • Bulgaria, Sofia, Sofia City Art Gallery
  • 2003
    • Cyprus, Limassol, Evagoras Lanitis Centre
    • Cyprus, Nicosia, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre
    • Slovenia, Ljubljana, Mestna Gallery
    • Slovenia, Celje, Contemporary Arts Gallery
    • Slovenia, Maribor, Kibla Centre
    • Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn Town Hall
  • 2002
    • Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Museum of Fine Art, Husove Street Gallery
    • Yugoslavia, Podgorica, Podgorica
    • Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Art Pavilion
    • Poland, Wroclaw, Awagarda Gallery
    • Croatia, Zagreb, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti
    • Croatia, Zadar, Galerija Umjetnin Narodnog Muzeja
    • Croatia, Split, Galerija Umjetnina
    • Croatia, Dubrovnik, Palaca Sponza
  • 2001
    • Romania, Sibiu, Museum Brukenthal
    • Romania, Brasov, Muzeul De Arta Brasov
    • Romania, Bucharest, National Museum Of Art
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