The Original Image : Mark Corfield- Moore, Luey Graves & Martin McGinn

11 Mar-16 Apr 2016

Overview

Artists: Mark Corfield-Moore, Luey Graves, Martin McGinn From our contemporary perspective, the canon of art history can become a heavy weight on current artistic practice. The constructed nature of this history can lead to an anxiety of influence, as its presence continues to mediate and enact upon our perception of the visual image. Today, how can we define our relationship to art history? This group exhibition considers four artists who treat art historical sources as a flexible material to be reinterpreted, re-configured, and played with in the present. By appropriating images, metaphors and motifs from canonical sources, works in the exhibition consider art’s position as an academic subject, a pastime, and a commodity.