Exposition

Intimate to and transcendent of transient time qua the seen and drawn in the present: an email to a painter/academic and his reaction (2023)

Mike Croft, derek pigrum
open exposition

About this exposition

The idea of the exposition was triggered by an email exchange between artists Mike Croft and Derek Pigrum on 30th November 2022. The two artists have for more than a year been maintaining an email correspondence on matters of mutual interest concerning their visual practice and theoretical explorations. On this occasion Croft had read something by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan on the automaton, the latter of which he knew to be of great interest to Pigrum, the email to Pigrum of which opens the exposition. The resulting email response from Pigrum has as its point of focus a visit he had made the day before to the KHM (Kunsthistorisches Museum) in his home city, Vienna, where what he terms ‘the automation of contingency that generates repetition’ was as usual in operation. The references Pigrum made in the email to his own artistic work and existing works of art and cultural and historical artefacts suggested his text might be divided and illustrated, the resulting format of which is the present exposition. Several additional responses to the email exchange’s content ensued, termed interventions in the exposition, leading to a closing email exchange dated 11th December 2022. A third email exchange between 13th and 14th December has resulted in a Postscript section. Croft’s contribution pivots, he suggests, around Lacan’s coined term ab-sense, very approximately interpreted to mean absence of meaning between patterns or continuum – in the linguistic context signifiers –that are nonetheless not reducible to mere nonsense. The running through, as it were, of contingency in Pigrum’s practice – which he points out is not his only interest and prompts a need to show the broader picture, as it were, a pivotal influence for him being Aby Warburg’s Atlas Mnemosyne – may be considered informed by sense more so than meaning. The exposition is an example of how an ongoing correspondence can be an important aspect of each artist’s practice.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsdrawing, correspondance, automaton, contingency, repetition, charged image, sorting
date10/12/2022
published06/03/2023
last modified06/03/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationi2ADS - Research Institute in Design and Society
copyrightMichael Croft
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1857065/1857066
published ini2ADS - Research Institute in Art, Design and Society
portal issue0. Art, Design & Society


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1857101 1.1 Panel 55 Aby Warburg_s Atlas Mnemosyne Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1857104 1.2 own panel in the studio Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1857124 2.1 Painting of The Golden Stag Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1857126 2.2 Imago Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1857131 2.3 Painting of The Navigator Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858290 3.1 Drawing of hands from medieval painting from Notebook 76. 2022 series II Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858291 3.2 Photo of 17th century Automaton Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858292 3.3 Painting Automaton Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858293 3.4 Drawing of Fury I after ivory by master of the Furies. Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858295 3.5 Drawing of Fury II after ivory by the Master of the Furies Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858296 3.6 painting Mnemosyne-i Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858305 3.2 Photo of 17th century Automaton Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
1858354 4.1 Notebook drawing of Easel and curtain Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858356 4.2 Paintings of the Curtain and the Gates 2022 Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858382 5.1 Frieze Drawing in notebook Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858396 6.1 Drawing of a Neolithic Pot Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858398 6.2 Painting of Death of Samson Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858418 7.1 Drawing of a detail of the Annointment of David after Veronese Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858419 7.1 Drawing of a detail of the Annointment of David after Veronese Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858421 7.2 Nymph and Shepherd drawing after Titian jpg Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858423 7.3 Drawing of detail of Ruben_s Festival of Venus Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858426 7.4 Drawing of Tango Dancers Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858428 7.5 Drawing_collage Dancers Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858429 7.5 Drawing_collage Dancers Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858430 7.5 Drawing_collage Dancers Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858899 Das Gegenwerk Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858922 Fist drawing Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858933 Sinthome Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858938 Fury Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858939 Hesperides I Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858942 Hesperides II Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858944 Sinthome Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858951 Fury Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858957 Fury Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858969 Hesperides I Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
1858971 Hesperides I Derek Pigrum CC BY-NC-ND
2002062 Cameo 1 Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
2002063 Cameo 1 Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND

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