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Renato Giuseppe Bertelli: Continuous Profile – Head of Mussolini, 1933 |
Living with accidents of time and place
MARK WALLINGER CURATES: THE RUSSIAN LINESMAN FRONTIERS, BORDERS AND THRESHOLDS
Hayward Gallery
TURNER Prize-winner Mark Wallinger is one of Britain’s foremost artists, achieving the hard-to-obtain balance between intellectual curiosity and wider public appeal with aplomb.
The title and the themes explored in the exhibition take their inspiration from the story of the Russian linesman who awarded a late, iffy goal to England in the 1966 World Cup final.
It’s these “Sliding Doors” moments that Wallinger investigates with a nod to his literary heroes – Blake, Duchamp, Joyce and Nauman.
In particular the ideas of boundaries, thresholds and arbitrary divides, whether physical, psychological or metaphysical are prominent throughout.
Highlights include Wallinger’s own work, Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, a life-sized mirrored representation of the Tardis, and Thomas Demand’s Poll 2001, a representation of a polling station during the infamous Florida recount. It’s all about getting one step closer to these pivotal steps in history, says Wallinger.
“I have always been interested in how we define and are defined by thresholds and boundaries, the events of history.
“The works in the exhibition use illusion, artifice and dislocating devices to look at our accidental time and place in the world afresh.”
Anyone interested in fate, chance or who needs to refresh their ideas of what history really is, could do worse then taking a trip to the Hayward.
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