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Seven artists engage new work in a historic space, in Gatti, an homage to and appropriation of the narrative space of a 19th century ice cream-maker. The subtle slip of a mirror provoking subjective and citational memory; the slight rock of a Victorian chair sunk in a plaster slab; the silent call of the moniker of a boat's name from the South Atlantic Ocean: the work in this exhibition both evokes and renounces the determinant machinations of narrative, with monuments which are not; it is an exhibition un-curated. The narrative exigencies cobble upon one another the very place of the London Canal Museum.
It is at once a tribute to Carlo Gatti, a celebrated Victorian vendor of gelati and a setting for the investigation of the history of London's Regent's canal. Running over with maps of proposed, but never constructed waterways, the etymology of 'legging it', a plastic horse, tin cans, and two hallowed, redolent, and reflective ice reserves, the space itself both invites and denies further occupation. To the tales told, we add our own.
For more information, please contact Brooke: brooke@gattiexhibition.com
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Gatti, an Exhibtion
18 September - 6 Novermber 2008
Part of London Open House taking place on 20 & 21 September [more]
Nick Hornby
Abigail Hunt
Liane Lang
Patricia Lennox
Andy Parker
Kieren Reed
Sinta Tantra
Curated by Brooke Lynn McGowan
Contact:brooke@gattiexhibition.com
The London Canal Museum
12-13 New Wharf Road
London, N1 9RT
Tues-Sun 10am-430pm
