- Venue
- Durham City Art Gallery and DLI Museum
- Starts
- Saturday, September 11, 2010
- Ends
- Sunday, October 17, 2010
- Address
- DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery Aykley Heads Durham DH1 5TU
- Location
- North East England
Gestalt is a show that has been six years in the making. It has grown from a single piece involving 15 actors enacting various ‘half remembered’ tableau, into an installation that is currently in three parts. These have a ‘global conflict’ theme, and are concerned with aspects of the real and the imagined in a world of media overload.Working with the DLI museum collection Neil Armstrong has created a series of portraits that both reference the history of military style portraiture, whilst planting them firmly in the contemporary world. The project has evolved through a desire to explore what it is to live in the ‘moment’ – the elusive space that is implied by photography (and painting too) but which is forever running away from us and can never be accessed except through implication.The explosion has become a motif for that intangible ‘moment’, which has in turn led Armstrong to work with a member of an RAF bomb disposal team to create the video installation that also forms part of Gestalt.
