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d a d - l e o l i<br />
Cefnogwyd gan<br />
Alex Thibault | Quantum Glass<br />
Ashley McAvoy<br />
Richard Collins<br />
Pete Telfer | www.culturecolony.com<br />
Pryfysgol Morgannwg<br />
For further information of how to find us please visit our website<br />
Am ragor o fanylion a gwybodaeth am sut i ddod o hyd i ni, ewch i’n<br />
www.newport.gov.uk/artgallery or call neu ffoniwch 01633 656 656<br />
ARDDANGOSFA<br />
MEHEFIN 25 - MEDI 10 2011<br />
AMGUEDDFA AC ORIEL GELF CASNEWYDD<br />
SGWAR JOHN FROST<br />
CASNEWYDD NP20 1PA<br />
Diolchgarwch Emma Geliot & Shaun Featherstone<br />
Cychwynnwyd gan Amgueddfa ac Oriel Casnewydd<br />
AGORED LLUN - IAU 9.30 - 17.00<br />
GWENER 9.30 - 16.30<br />
SAD 9.30 - 16.00<br />
RHAGOLWG<br />
GWENER<br />
MEHEFIN 24 2011<br />
18.30 - 20.30YH<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
25 JUNE - 10 SEPTEMBER 2011<br />
NEWPORT MUSEUM & ART GALLERY<br />
JOHN FROST SQUARE<br />
NEWPORT NP20 1PA<br />
OPEN MON - THURS 9.30 - 17.00<br />
FRI 9.30 - 16.30<br />
SAT 9.30 - 16.00<br />
d i s - l o c a t i o n<br />
Supported by<br />
Alex Thibault | Quantum Glass<br />
Ashley McAvoy<br />
Richard Collins<br />
Pete Telfer | www.culturecolony.com<br />
University of Glamorgan<br />
Thanks to Emma Geliot & Shaun Featherstone<br />
i n s t a l l a t i o n / v i d e o<br />
a n d r e w c o o p e r<br />
www.andrew-cooper.org<br />
Originated by Newport Museum & Art Gallery<br />
PREVIEW<br />
FRIDAY<br />
JUNE 24 2011<br />
18.30 - 20.30 PM
His – Story / Her - Story<br />
It’s difficult to define a typical Andrew Cooper work by the way it looks, but<br />
the thought behind it and the exceptionally high quality of the execution is a<br />
trademark of his practice. Cooper’s explores processes and techniques that can<br />
deliver the vision for any particular project, frequently going in new and exciting<br />
directions.<br />
In this exhibition Cooper adds two new installations: Dis-Location and No-<br />
Where, to We Are History, originally shown in New York. He creates multistranded<br />
stories, imaginary histories and some surprises with his use of blownup<br />
negatives, suspended and projected through glass. To this he adds multiple<br />
screens, subverted audio that contradicts the images it accompanies, and even<br />
CCTV footage of the audience as they pass through the work.<br />
For We Are History Cooper used old photographs, found in a biscuit tin, which<br />
had some association with his family, but he was unclear what, or who the<br />
people in the pictures were. So he set about creating their stories, leaving space<br />
for viewers to add their own imaginary narratives to these hazy personas, while<br />
weaving in a soundtrack of extracts from the letters of Welsh émigrés in the US.<br />
The ghostly images, with the accompanying sounds, often from unexpected and<br />
disorientating directions, begin to create their own narratives, through the prism<br />
of the viewer’s own memories and experience. Cooper is happy for audiences to<br />
add their own interpretations as they move through his installations.<br />
This theme of dialogue continues with No-Where, in which the sound contradicts<br />
the vision and sets up a conversation between the photographic protagonists<br />
and the audience in an increasingly hypnotic to-and-fro of repeated words<br />
and layerings of meaning. to-and-fro of repeated words and layerings of<br />
meaning.<br />
Dis-Location is the realisation of Cooper’s ambition to make his work<br />
more interactive and to draw the viewer in - for the work to become more<br />
Dis-Location is the realisation of Cooper’s ambition to make his work more<br />
interactive and to draw the viewer in - for the work to become more complex and<br />
simultaneously more basic and visceral. Here, through the use of some techno<br />
wizardry (Priva-Lite glass), the screens when activated become opaque as the<br />
image appears and then switch to their translucent state, creating ghost images<br />
of the viewers and incorporating them into the action.<br />
These works, though seemingly different from each other, seem to be natural<br />
stopping off points on a journey as the artist continues to reflect, assess and<br />
assimilate the themes, motifs and techniques that he has been developing<br />
throughout his career. Cooper has earned a great deal of admiration and respect<br />
for his ability to work across many media and processes, to deliver projects that<br />
reflect his intensely empathetic take on humanity and the world around him.<br />
Emma Geliot 2011<br />
Cooper studied at the Royal College of Art, London. He worked with renowned<br />
sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi, Pentagram Design and EPRArchitects. Relocating to<br />
Cardiff he moved his studio practice to tactileBOSCH Studios in Llandaff North.<br />
Since moving back to Wales, he has secured a number of prestigious<br />
commissions and awards from arts & business bodies: including Artworks Wales,<br />
British Gas, The Royal British Legion and British Rail. In 2007 he was invited to<br />
exhibit at kingston Sculpture Biennial, NY. USA and was also presented with the<br />
Purchase Prize Award by the University of Glamorgan. He continues to exhibit<br />
both nationally and internationally at the Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2008<br />
and the Senedd, National Assembly for Wales Building, 2008. In 2009 he was<br />
granted a Creative Wales Award by the Arts Council of Wales.<br />
Ei stori ef / Ei stori hi<br />
Mae’n anodd diffinio gwaith Andrew Cooper yn ôl ei olwg, ond mae’r meddwl<br />
sy’n mynd i mewn i’w waith a’r safon uchel yn nodweddiadol o’i waith. Mae<br />
Cooper yn archwilio prosesau a thechnegau sy’n gwireddu gweledigaeth ar<br />
gyfer unrhyw broject, yn aml yn newid cyfeiriad am un newydd a chyffrous.<br />
Yn yr arddangosfa yma, mae Cooper yn ychwanegu dau ddarn mawr, sef ‘Dis-<br />
Location’ a ‘No-Where’, at ‘We Are History’ a ddangoswyd yn wreiddiol yn Efrog<br />
Newydd. Mae’n creu straeon aml-haenog, hanesion dychmygol a rhai pethau<br />
i beri syndod, wrth iddo ddefnyddio negatifau wedi’u chwyddo yn hongian ac<br />
yn cael eu taflunio trwy wydr. At hyn, mae’n ychwanegu nifer o sgriniau, sain<br />
sy’n gwrth-ddweud y darluniau, a hyd yn oed ffilmiau CCTV o’r gynulleidfa wrth<br />
iddynt basio trwy’r gwaith.<br />
Ar gyfer ‘We Are History’ mae Cooper yn defnyddio hen ffotograffau a<br />
ddarganfuwyd mewn tin bisgedi. Mae ganddynt ryw gysylltiad â’i deulu, ond nid<br />
yw’n eglur beth yw’r cysylltiad hwnnw, na phwy oedd y bobl yn y ffotograffau.<br />
Felly aeth ati i greu eu straeon, gan adael bylchau i’r ymwelwyr ychwanegu eu<br />
naratif dychmygol eu hunain i’r cymeriadau aneglur. Ar yr un pryd mae trac sain<br />
o ddarnau o lythyron o ymfudwyr Cymreig i’r Unol Daleithiau yn chwarae. Mae’r<br />
delweddau ysbrydol, gyda’r sain yn gyfeiliant, yn aml o gyfeiriadau annisgwyl,<br />
yn creu eu naratif eu hunain, trwy brism atgofion a phrofiadau’r ymwelwyr. Mae<br />
Cooper yn hapus i’r gynulleidfa ychwanegu eu dadansoddiadau eu hunain wrth<br />
iddynt symud drwy’r gwaith.<br />
Mae’r thema o ddeialog yn parhau gyda ‘No-Where’, lle mae’r sain yn<br />
gwrthgyferbynnu â’r delweddau ac yn cychwyn sgwrs rhwng prif gymeriadau’r<br />
ffotograffau a’r gynulleidfa mewn deialog yn ôl ac ymlaen hypnotig o eiriau<br />
wedi’u hailadrodd a haenau o ystyr.<br />
Mae ‘Dis-Location yn gwireddu uchelgais Cooper i wneud ei waith yn fwy<br />
rhyngweithiol a thynnu’r ymwelydd i mewn i’r gwaith er mwyn iddo fod yn<br />
fwy cymhleth ond, ar yr un pryd, yn symlach ac yn fwy angerddol. Yma, trwy<br />
ddefnyddio technoleg glyfar (gwydr Priva-Lite), mae’r sgriniau’n anhryloyw wrth<br />
i’r ddelwedd ymddangos ac yna’n mynd yn dryloyw, gan greu delweddau fel<br />
ysbrydion o’r gwylwyr, ac felly’n eu cynnwys yn y gwaith.<br />
Mae’r gweithiau hyn, er eu bod yn ymddangos yn wahanol i’w gilydd, yn<br />
ymddangos fel arosfanau ar siwrnai wrth i’r artist barhau i fyfyrio, asesu a<br />
chymathu’r themâu, y motifau a’r technegau sydd wedi bod yn datblygu<br />
trwy gydol ei yrfa. Mae Cooper wedi ennyn edmygedd a pharch am ei allu i<br />
weithio mewn amryw gyfryngau a phrosesau gwahanol, i greu projectau sy’n<br />
adlewyrchu ei agwedd llawn empathi at ddynoliaeth a’r byd o’i gwmpas.<br />
Emma Geliot 2011