An exhibition of drawing and new media by Jack Hutchinson

Private View: Friday 4th of September 2009 – 6 pm to 11 pm

Exhibition runs from: Friday 4th to 10th of September 2009
Gallery Opening Hours: Fri, Sat, Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs: 2.30 pm – 6.30 pm
Last day of Exhibition: Thurs 10th of September: 11.00am to 5.00pm

“Art is a state of encounter” (Nicolas Bourriaud, ‘Relational Aesthetics’).

Brief Encounter explores the intensification and acceleration of social exchanges and activities across world-time and space-time. Hutchinson’s drawings and video work confront this situation by offering a crucible where heterogeneous forms of sociability are worked out through a dynamic network of forms – before, during and after production.

Following the receding perspectives of history and geography, lines are traced in a globalized space that extends to time: history, the last continent to be explored, is traversed like a territory. The work references future events according to a system of cognitive logic, presented as a kind of fake archeological re-enactment – relics whose historical placing remains unclear.

Hutchinson’s work explores the act of discovery and documentation and the discourse between art and history, the ancient and modern, time and place. His use of detailed, linear imagery such as fingerprints addresses issues of identity and individuality with a forensic precision. Hutchinson’s engagement with historical themes is reflected in his use of faded, delicate forms. The viewer is invited to encounter and explore the ambiguity of his imagery; the ripples of the fingerprints becoming almost map or maze like.