The Beautiful Game

3 August – 30 October 2009
Opening reception 31 July 6pm – 9pm

Simon Fildes – Dundee, UK; Kevin Henderson – Perth, UK; Matthew Mark Roberts – London, UK; Angela Ellsworth – Phoenix, USA; RAEchel Running – Arizona, USA; Kim Walker – Glasgow, UK

The worlds of sport and art are inextricably linked by a number of deep rooted commonalities; through the conventions which we unconsciously adhere to when judging them; through the aesthetic appreciation we hold for each discipline; through each fields demand for a public arena to showcase talent; and through the athletes personal somatic experiences.

The exhibition The Beautiful Game will seek to explore the relational aesthetics of sport, athletics, art and game play, along with its theory and psychology, mark making and movement, modes of athletic performance, temporal and spatial dissonance. By employing a wide variety of artistic practice The Beautiful Game brings sports into a visual arts context exposing the active aesthetic.

Create and exhibit your own motion-generated artwork

The University of Abertay’s Hannah Maclure Centre is looking for people to take part in creating motion based art works.

For the exhibition The Beautiful Game Angela Ellsworth, a multidisciplinary artist from Phoenix, USA, will be staging Training an on going mark making collaboration.

Training is an exploration of where art and exercise overlap. By engaging bodies in motion Ellsworth explores the ‘training’ process required in order to excel in the disciplines of both art and exercise.

For two-weeks exercise equipment in the University’s gym and the moving bodies of volunteers will form a collaboration and function as finely sharpened drawing tools. The atmosphere of the gym will shift as bodies generate drawings by way of moving on (and with) exercise equipment in the gym.

Training has been on going since 2002 and the project at the University of Abertay Dundee will be the first time it has been produced with community volunteers. The outcomes (drawings) of these Training sessions will be exhibited in the Hannah Maclure Centre’s gallery.
To get involved contact us on T: 01382 308324 or email us at exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk

Dates Training will be taking place (times to be arranged with volunteers): 20 – 31 July excluding Sundays.

No previous drawing or exercise experience necessary, everyone welcome. For more information about the project, the exhibition and images of past sessions visit www.abertay.ac.uk/exhibitions or http://aellsworth.com

De Rerum Natura : The Nature of Things

Ronald Forbes
De Rerum Natura : The Nature of Things
16 February - 8 May 2009

An exhibition of new work produced during his time as
Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence at the Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee.

The art of Ronald Forbes forms a narrative around the way we see and understand the world. It is about illusion, belief and reality – and the fuzzy edges between these. This new body of work comprises a number of large paintings, some unique digital-collage prints and a film.

A Beautiful Day Interno3

24 November 2008 – 30 January 2009
Opening reception: Friday 21 November, 6-8pm
Gallery Talk 4pm

In an interaction between high-tech and low-fi, A Beautiful Day presents a series of deconstructed micro-stories of daily perception and experience in an environmental context. The exhibition narrative is an audiovisual sculpture that exposes the parts of electronic devices; it fragments the vision, picks apart sensations and undermines the nature of events. Interno3 analyses sounds' and images' rifts, glitches and repeated loops, creating an understanding of the use of technology as a fundamental aspect in contemporary art practice.

Interno3 is the artistic partnership of Laura Riolfatto and Manuel Frara, active since the mid 90’s. Their practice investigates the language of video, using methods of connecting and separating sequences of images and examining the state or conditions of this technology. As the technology improves, they probe it, working with the glitches, exposing the cracks and working with the creation of malfunctions. They choose to search for the accidental errors that contaminate the recorded performance.

This exhibition is the result of collaboration between Laura Riolfatto & Manuel Frara, Gabriella Cardazzo and Galleria Contemporaneo, Venice. It is the first time they have exhibited in the UK.

Movieclub

next screening ......... The Hustler (1961)

20 October 6pm coffee, 6.30pm screening

Directed by Robert Rossen

"Fast" Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary "Minnesota Fats" to a high stakes match, but he loses in a heart breaking marathon.

Rated: 15
Runtime: 134 min

Concerts

This Wednesday 1 October- 12.30pm-1.30pm

Lunchtime Concerts @ HMC

The Hannah Maclure Centre proudly presents a series of afternoon concerts showcasing the latest talents in performing arts. From singers to musicians, dramatic readings to poetry recitals; there’s something to satisfy all tastes!

Come along to the HMC gallery café the first Wednesday of every month, be entertained, enjoy a coffee, a tasty sandwich or sushi and enjoy the show…

Kicking off the first session is local talent Jill Gibson, performing popular covers as well as her own material. Graduating from Dundee College with an HNC in Modern Musicianship Jill as been performing both locally and around the country.

Jill will be entertaining us in the gallery with piano and vocals from 12.30pm this Wednesday.

Forbidden Planet

next screening .........

28 July 6pm coffee

6.30pm screening Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen. The characters and setting were inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the plots are very similar.

The film features a number of Oscar-nominated special effects, groundbreaking use of an all-electronic music score, and the first screen appearance of both Robby the Robot and the C-57D flying saucer starship.