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.
Red Gate Gallery is an organisation that is dedicated to the continuous exposure of contemporary and diverse Art forms. It encompasses artists’ studios, a large gallery space suitable for installations, film projections, performances and exhibitions. Red Gate is located within a busy environment between Brixton & Camberwell. The gallery hosts regular events, exploring strands of thought provoking art. Since 1998 it has hosted over 485 events and exhibitions.
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
Private View: Friday 4th of September 2009 – 6 pm to 11 pm
Red Gate Gallery
209a Coldharbour Lane
London SW9 8RU
Call: 020 7326 0993
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