Mabb, David. 2014. Announcer (broadsheet). [Exhibition Catalogue]

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David Mabb
‘Announcer’
Printed newspaper, produced in an edition 2000
This publication was produced to accompany David Mabb's exhibition 'Announcer', Focal Point Gallery, 12 April to 12 July 2014.

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"This exhibition marks the culmination of Mabb’s work which, for over fifteen years, has investigated the utopian socialist concerns in Morris’ designs by contrasting them with other forms of modernist and utopian production. The main gallery space was dominated by a new installation of paintings entitled Announcer. Composed of thirty large canvases, the work covers three walls of the space and surrounds the audience. Each canvas is pasted with pages from facsimile editions of the Kelmscott Chaucer, a collection of works by Geoffrey Chaucer published by the Kelmscott Press [1896], which Morris founded and worked on as a typographer and designer. Onto this surface are painted enlarged recreations of El Lissitzky’s Constructivist illustrations from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s book of revolutionary poems For the Voice [1923]. In this work, the publications cease to be objects that can be held and digested, instead becoming an environment. Rather than simply combining the designs, Announcer interweaves and juxtaposes them. Sections of the Kelmscott Chaucer are left unpainted to disrupt the geometric Lissitzky designs. A dialogue is created between the two, which are simultaneously frozen, but never fixed, unable to fully merge or separate".

Item Type:	Exhibition Catalogue
Keywords:	William Morris, El Lizitsky, Chaucer, Mayakovsky
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Date:	2014
Item ID:	13653
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2015 20:59
Last Modified:	21 Aug 2019 20:56
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13653

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