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Tessa Lynch: Caf茅 Concrete
Glasgow Sculpture Studios is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Tessa Lynch, developed throughout her one year Graduate Fellowship at GSS from November 2013 until November 2014. This exhibition continues the artist鈥檚 formal investigations into the mimicry of urban objects, techniques and scenarios in order to provide a space for commentary on the emotional impact of the built environment and the neo-liberalism that commands the design of the 21st century city.
Caf茅 Concrete is a portrait of a 鈥渃ity living鈥� artist, in which Lynch critiques her own ideal image of an artist 鈥渓iving as flaneur鈥� by recognising the near impossibility of the task. Here Lynch focuses on the long debated existence of the 鈥渇laneuse鈥�, the female version of the saunterer, questioning how do women experience and occupy public space?
For the exhibition Lynch has created a new series of sculptures, executed in ubiquitous urban materials such as aluminium, rain water, paper mulch, copper and chewing gum. Reworked through a series of techniques linked to industrial construction these objects formally echo Lynch鈥檚 everyday city scenarios and observed 鈥榝laneurial exploits鈥�. For Lynch, an artist whose work often revolves around performative and collaborative situations, Cafe Concrete rather focuses in on the artists personal and performative negotiations with the fabric of the city itself. And, through her experience of city life invites the audience as flaneuse to wander through Cafe Concrete and draw out their own observations.
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Glasgow Sculpture Studios is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new work by Tessa Lynch, developed throughout her one year Graduate Fellowship at GSS from November 2013 until November 2014. This exhibition continues the artist鈥檚 formal investigations into the mimicry of urban objects, techniques and scenarios in order to provide a space for commentary on the emotional impact of the built environment and the neo-liberalism that commands the design of the 21st century city.
Caf茅 Concrete is a portrait of a 鈥渃ity living鈥� artist, in which Lynch critiques her own ideal image of an artist 鈥渓iving as flaneur鈥� by recognising the near impossibility of the task. Here Lynch focuses on the long debated existence of the 鈥渇laneuse鈥�, the female version of the saunterer, questioning how do women experience and occupy public space?
For the exhibition Lynch has created a new series of sculptures, executed in ubiquitous urban materials such as aluminium, rain water, paper mulch, copper and chewing gum. Reworked through a series of techniques linked to industrial construction these objects formally echo Lynch鈥檚 everyday city scenarios and observed 鈥榝laneurial exploits鈥�. For Lynch, an artist whose work often revolves around performative and collaborative situations, Cafe Concrete rather focuses in on the artists personal and performative negotiations with the fabric of the city itself. And, through her experience of city life invites the audience as flaneuse to wander through Cafe Concrete and draw out their own observations.
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