EXHIBITION

© Courtesy Paul Winstanley

EXHIBITION 1999

Paul Winstanley (1954 – )

Details

Dimension
AS INSTALLED
Media
CAST PLASTIC AND TRANSFERS, WITH BOX
Accession number
P7321

Summary

Winstanley paints unoccupied waiting rooms, television lounges and student common rooms; places for killing time. “The idea of a toy exhibition which represents a real exhibition appealed to me on a number of levels. My paintings have, for a long time, dealt with the nature of the image and the transformation of meaning that occurs when an image finds form in a new and sometimes unexpected media. Exhibition attempts to extend this idea. It includes a set of images which, taken together, constitute a potential installation. This was true of the original exhibition of paintings (at the Tate Gallery, London 1998) and it is true of this work. However the recipient is now invited to play an active role in hanging, grouping and displaying the individual items. Exhibition also acts as a memento of a group of works that have long since been dispersed.”

Multiplication, The British Council 2001 text © The Multiple Store

 

Glossary

  • Hanging

    A woven, embroidered or otherwise decorated length of cloth displayed on a wall.

  • Installation

    An artwork comprised of many and various elements of miscellaneous materials (see mixed media), light and sound, which is conceived for and occupies an entire space, gallery or site. The viewer can often enter or walk around the installation. Installations may only exist as long as they are installed, but can be re-created in different sites. Installation art emerged in the 1960s out of Environmental Art (works of art which are three-dimensional environments), but it was not until the 1970s that the term came into common use and not until the late 1980s that artists started to specialise in this kind of work, creating a genre of ‘Installation Art’. The term can also be applied to the arrangement of selected art works in an exhibition.