Apparition: The action of appearing
8 March – 27 April 2003
The genesis of a work of art, the moment of its appearance, was the focus of this international group exhibition. The emphasis on ‘action’ in the title corresponds to a performative element in the show, which included artists from Europe, North America, China and South Africa.
The works, many of them shown in this country for the first time, included the film Shadow Procession by William Kentridge, a large gunpowder drawing by Cai Guo-Qiang, and visionary works on paper by Marlene Dumas. The inky pages of a sketchbook by Charles Crumb conversed with Susan Hiller’s back-lit transparencies From India to the Planet Mars, while Paul McCarthy’s ribald video-performance Painter chimed with photographic self-portraits by Elizabeth Manchester, Daniela Steinfeld and Jon Thompson.
Artists
Cai Guo-Qiang, Charles Crumb, Marlene Dumas, Susan Hiller, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Elizabeth Manchester, Daniela Steinfeld, Jon Thompson
