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Exhibition: Hurling Rubble
This exhibition highlights the themes of our double bill plays Hurling Rubble at the Sun and Hurling Rubble at the Moon. The works are based on the themes of extremism, stillness and identity.
Robert Goldstein attended the School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA 1978 – 1981. Leaving NYC in 1984 he began a career in fashion photography and landed his first job with Italian Vogue, working with Manuela Pavesi on numerous fashion stories. Work with various other international fashion magazines followed.
Leaving Italy for London he changed direction from fashion to reportage. In 1991 he began freelancing and worked with Colin Jacobsen on the Saturday Supplement for the Independent Newspaper. In 1993-4 Goldstein worked with UK Unicef in South Sudan. Subsequently a show of his South Sudan photos, was exhibited at the Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK. A solo show at Smiths Gallery, London, followed. Alongside this work Goldstein photographed in the music industry, in theatre, in film and advertising, also working for various publications including GQ and Vanity Fair.
While continuing his commercial work he begun teaching photography at Chalcot, BESD School in Camden, inner city, London. (Behavioural, Emotional and Social Disorders). During this time Goldstein documented the everyday life of the school. An exhibition of his and the students photography was exhibited at the Cork St Gallery, West End, London.
STILL, Goldstein’s exhibition, draws together the raw and the refined. Images selected from a body of work spanning several decades. His eye travels geographically, emotionally and politically, his vision and singular ability to embed the image into the viewer’s memory remains Still.
Ten young artists that are feature are:
Julia Bennett - As an artist, I investigate issues of conflict within oneself and the world we’re surrounded by. I connect myself intimately to my artwork and reveal a nature of incompleteness to provoke true sentiments and responses. I want to urge viewers to deliberate my analysis of discomposure, beauty, and individualism in today’s society.
Explanation of inspiration behind work:
Extremist behaviour not only a!ects specific opposing cultures, but often targets women in an even more direct way. This particular piece was inspired by the concept of identity and a women’s place in society. It was created to reflect on the fact that women are more than bodies to be handled, harassed or directed.
Description of the comment the piece makes on the world:
Where there are radical men, women are either forced to become submissive or become extreme themselves. Patriarchy and the subservience of women are common elements that have created woman’s position in society. I want viewers to understand the inequality women live through regularly and be able to identify with the fact that we are not the common perception. Our identity lies within what we make of ourselves, not based on our bodies.
Magdalena Bullivant - I observe people. I am drawn to the uncomfortable in human emotion; pain sorrow and desire. It's about what we are and what we signify. I specialise in Fine Art mediums and Photography; I use the creative processes in a contrasting way to create work laced with symbolism and narrative.
Explanation of inspiration behind work:
This piece was inspired by the eventual decay and corruption of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik. Auferstanden aus Ruinen Rising from the Ruins (music score seen in the drawing) is the national anthem of former East Germany, a part of the country’s national identity.
Description of the comment the piece makes on the world:
History shows us the most powerful and controlling regimes are born from desperation and misery; radical change o!ers hope. A flower symbolises hope and life, the flower of the DDR ‘rises from the ruin’ of a broken Germany post World War II. But here the flower is depicted dead, unable to bl