CTRL C

CTRL C

PRESS RELEASE

Alice Martin
CTRL C
28 Nov – 10 Dec 2019
Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 6pm

Private View 29 Nov 2019 7 – 9pm

Tolbooth is the venue for Alice Martin’s first solo exhibition ‘CTRL C‘, the exhibition is an exploration of digital copies through the use and manipulation of open data.

Martin’s practice involves creating 3D remixes of original works, focusing on information relating to heritage, archaeology, Classicism and Art history. For this exhibition, Martin has created a new body of work based on a range of museum and gallery pieces from a number of online archives. The original works are transformed and curated in order to showcase an altered collection.

‘CTRL C’ consists of various 3D outputs that have been reworked from existing material, the recreations allow new meanings to be formed. The artist is attracted by the idea of displaying works outside of formal institutions. Martin has selected a bust of Monsignor Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, held by National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, as the starting point to her exhibition. A dialogue surrounding the sitter’s nephew, Cassiano dal Pozzo, who commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to carve the portrait, is focused upon. His role as collector and patron to the arts is reflected in Martin’s installation of 3D printed sculptures.

Inspired by a series of Jasper ware busts from the British Museum the artist has also created four large-scaled banners. The banners each contain a 3D rendering of a stone head, from prehistoric Scotland, and an architectural column. The presentation of the sculptural heads puts into question how we value artefacts.

A selection of 3D printed Roman fragments can be found as well. Martin has converted several 2D public domain images to produce the physical objects. In using additive manufacturing, the fragments might seem familiar, but the materiality of the pieces generate a renewed response. The underlying connection throughout the exhibition is not solely of time or place, but rather of the notion of the individual.

This project has been supported by Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards: Forth Valley and West Lothian, and GOSSIP Collective.

Sources

Scan the World: Nicolas Poussin at the Louvre, Paris, France

Scan the World: Monsignor Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1547-1607)

Etruscan Candelabrum Finial (from Cassiano dal Pozzo’s ‘Paper Museum’) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0

Copy after a Sculpture of the Sleeping Eros Based on an Antique Model (from Cassiano dal Pozzo’s ‘Paper Museum’) by Giovanni Angelo Canini (Italian, Rome 1615–1666 Rome) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0

The Companions of Rinaldo by Nicolas Poussin via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0

SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst: Bust of Costanza Bonarelli

Cameo glass with three portrait heads via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0

Glass cameo bowl fragment via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0

Glass cameo fragment via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0

Cameo glass fragment via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0

Glass cameo plaque fragment via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1.0

Musée Saint-Raymond: Column

Sketchfab: Celtic Stone Head by Open Virtual Worlds

Sketchfab: Celtic Stone Head by Open Virtual Worlds

Sketchfab: Celtic Stone Head by Open Virtual Worlds

Sketchfab: Celtic Stone Head, 2nd Century AD by Open Virtual Worlds

Media

• IS THERE VALUE IN DIGITAL COPIES? The John Byrne Award.

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