Location:

floors 4-6, 24-26 Torphicen street

Dates:

27th June - 12th July

Opening Time:

12 - 6 pm (Thurs - Sat)

Other Events (Openings/Talks etc.):

Opening: 26th June 7-9pm

Artists talk: 27th June 2pm

Organisation:

POLARCAP/HYPERGROUND

Artists:

Liz Adamson, Neil Clements, Malcolm Duff, Benjamin Fallon, Alexa Hare, Sacha Kahir, Masahiro Kawanaka, Duncan Marquiss, Rachel Mclean, Emily Ritchie, Norman Shaw, Eddie Summerton, Andy Wake

Description:

Heavy metal culture represents an attitude which is not generally connected with fine art. Yet from cock-rock to black metal, it is an extremely nuanced, contradictory, and complex organism, mutated on currents of northern romanticism, sublime melancholy, gothic horror, expressionism, fin-de-siècle occultism, surrealist eroticism, and existential doom. From extreme violence to delicate sensitivity, from complexity to minimalism, it is a kind of anti-art with a unique identity; misanthropic, tasteless and belligerent.
These artists draw new metal ores from distorted rock; alchemists of the blazing northern sky.

Links:

POLARCAP