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SUMMARY:Building on Things: images of ruin and renewal
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DESCRIPTION:No encounter or engagement with ruins is ever just about the 
 past. Ruins are vehicles for time travel in the imagination.\n\nA ruined
  building is a reminder to the viewer of the passage of time that has el
 apsed between its original\, pristine\, state and its present disintegra
 tion. However\, in the same moment a viewer cannot help reconstructing a
  version of the original building in their present imagination. Further\
 , the ruin projects us forward in time\; it prefigures a future in which
  our present will decline and deteriorate\, or be overtaken by some unpr
 edictable catastrophe.\n\nThe exhibition opens with the ironic modernity
  of Patrick Caulfield's brilliantly coloured screenprint Ruins and Piran
 esi's Imaginary Prisons\, inspired by a vision of decaying ancient Roman
  buildings and concerned with incarceration\, disorientation\, terror an
 d torture. British artists\, such as Turner and Girtin\, produced a wide
  variety of responses to the survival or destruction of ancient building
 s and the rapid urban change\, in progress from the mid- eighteenth cent
 ury. The contemporary French artist Cyprien Gaillard questions the pictu
 resque tradition embodied by these watercolours with an example of ruin 
 time travel.\n\nCultural change is pictured as a cyclical process of: co
 nstruction – zenith – decline – fall – and – renewal in Anne Desmet's Ba
 bel Flowers\, while Tacita Dean's series of photogravure stills from her
  film Fernsehturm reflects on the ruination of an ideology while its bui
 lt physical structures may be reinhabited and reinvigorated. The devasta
 ting impact of war is displayed in works by Henry Tonks\, Graham Sutherl
 and and Michael Sandle\, while Gordon Cheung imagines a future world of 
 bloated international finance and greed\, failed hopes and environmental
  disaster.\nRelated event:\n\nApocalypse Now: thinking about ruins and r
 adiation\nWednesday 28 November\, 2 – 5pm\, free\nA half-day seminar wit
 h Jane and Louise Wilson\, Paul Dobraszczyk (University of Manchester)\,
  Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University)\, Bradley Garrett (Roy
 al Holloway College)\, Jeff Hughes (University of Manchester)\, Dylan Tr
 igg (University of Sussex).\nFor more details t: 0161 275 7450
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:The Whitworth\, Manchester
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