Dark Materials
13 December 2008—19 January 2009
Rooms 12, 6, 9
Part of Collision Course
TV Santhosh, Counting Down, 2008. 30 fiberglass dogs, steel, LED counters, LED strips, paint. Dimensions variable.
On loan from the Frank Cohen collection
Dark Materials is a selection of work from the Frank Cohen Collection. GSK Contemporary curator David Thorp has drawn together recently acquired works by international artists, all of which evoke a sense of the aftermath of an apocalyptic disaster. Banks Violette’s Church is a huge installation showing the burnt out framework of a church. TV Santhosh’s Counting Down shows digital timers on the back of metal dogs counting down to the final moments to catastrophic disaster. There is also work by Hyungkoo Lee, Jitish Kallat and He An.
