‘Eight
Days A Week at the Bluecoat’
‘Turner’s Travels’, the collaboration project
by Pete Clarke and Georg Gartz.
8th – 14 th December 2008
open day 2pm-5pm 13th December 2008
Pete and
Georg have been making work in England and Germany since 1998. In
May 2007 they explored the historic journeys of Turner along the
Rivers Rhine and Mosel exhibiting the resulting collaborative paintings
at Museum Zündorfer Wehrturm.
In the summer of 2008 they made an equivalent journey in the North
of England, making drawings of Gordale Scar, Malham Tarn and Kilnsey
Crag. The project explores iconic places depicted in Turner’s
paintings and sketchbooks to produce new transcriptions and re-invented
images exploring concepts of national influence, cultural production
and ‘Romanticism’.
