C4RD (Centre for Recent Drawing) presents the work of Marco Calí as part of an ‘Online Residency Programme’. For the month of August 2010, Calí will create drawings based on the 1959 film, Tiger Bay. Drawing with ink on three sheets of tracing paper, he will recreate scenes from the film, as still-life of a fictional scene of a past moment.
Centre for Recent Drawing : Online Residency : Marco Calí
“I see drawing both as a mark that exists within human mechanical boundaries and as a baroque exercise that brings the otherworldly and the ‘actual’ world together into one image. I see feature films as providing a vision from another world that is intrinsically a past world. They create an escape to the past that also links to ideas of death and time’s slippage. This is especially evident in films that slip our current sensibility and years later are accompanied with comments such as ‘Wasn’t he/she young?’ or ‘Do you remember those…?’”
Where: Centre for Recent Drawing, 2-4 Highbury Station Road LONDON N1 1SB
When: Wed-Fri 12-6 (Highbury/Islington tube/rail)
C4RD presents the work of Marco Calí as part of our Onilne Residency programme. Throughout August 2010 Calí will create drawings based on the 1959 film, Tiger Bay. One each sheet of tracing paper Calí will draw elements in ink from a single frame as the camera moves in the shot. By removing the figures from the scene he will attempt to reconstruct the set-up, effectively re-creating a still-life of the a fictional scene of a past moment. Displaying sets of drawings from various scenes in series, various time-scales arise – that of the layered drawings in each ‘frame’, that of the ‘frames’ shown side-by-side and that of the drawn/observed act. The drawings will be both layered on one another as well as set out in a film-strip-like setting.
Marco Calí is a graduate from the MA at Central Saint Martins and BA from Chelsea, Calí’s work draws from notions of everyday life, death and procreation. Calí is especially interested in ideas of narrative and play, the relation between ‘reality’ and what can best be described as memory, dreaming, fairy tale, ‘other-worldly’ or put simply, how fact and fiction sit with respect to each other.
For more information visit: www.c4rd.org.uk
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