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As part of Liverpool’s Independent Biennial 2010, Chaosmos II is curated by lead artist Chris Boyd (Channel 4’s Big Art Challenge winner, Fact’s Microwave Award, Priestley prize), who has been described as a ‘genius’ by controversial art critic Brian Sewell.

Chaosmos II is an arts initiative that aims to research and develop the production of an array of mixed artwork on different media, animations, video and live art.

The exhibition gives a platform to a collection of international and renowned art in a unique exhibition within the abstract framework of Chaosmos. The term coined by the author James Joyce describing the paradoxical combination of order and disorder.

Chaosmos includes the work of artists Chris Boyd, Megan Chapman, Gordon Cheung, Peter Eramian, C. James Fagan, Steven Heaton, Maggie Lambert, Lady Lillith Leveigh, Zan Lyons, Ashleigh Nankivell, David Ogle, Jonas Pihl, James Roper, Masahiro Tomioka, Jane Ward, Boris Zakic and others plus writers Peter Eramian, Penny Goring, Kenji Siratori, Sam Skinner; Suzie Saw and others.

Even if you’ve been to the View Two Gallery before, this is a chance to see the new gallery spaces opened up for this exhibition. It’s the View Two Gallery as you’ve never seen it before!

Check out the View Two Gallery and join culturepool, Chris Boyd plus some of the other artists who will talk about their art and the exhibition on Saturday 18th September @ 1pm.  The event is FREE, so just pop along and join us for a cuppa, a bit of art and a chat.

The View Two Gallery has restricted access, please check with the gallery for more details on 0151 236 9444.

All details correct at the time of publishing.

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• Mr C. says:

  I had been to the viewing of this exhibition and whilst I had enjoyed it, I did not really appreciate what the artists were getting at until meeting them with Culturepool. There again that’s what Culturepool is all about. Thanks

  Thu, September 23, 2010 - 5:50:02

• Suzie Saw says:

  One of the audience asked whether Chris thought the viewer was important to his work. I think most of us have long been familiar with the idea that the viewing, the instance of experiencing an artwork is as much a part of the work as the article itself - and that each individual’s interaction with a piece is a unique event, simply because each of their receiving minds have been shaped by a different, albeit perhaps overlapping, set of data and personal inferences.

  For me, the ultimate metaphor for this experience is from quantum physics, wherein a particle is in a constantly shifting state, fluctuating within given parameters that define that particle’s nature, until it is measured by an observer - whereupon it become a material, observed & observable phenomenon.

  And that’s the theme I observed appearing throughout all the work in Chaosmos; despite being created individually, without a group objective, each artist has created something that reflects the modern culture of quantum development and its corresponding visual language. Diagrammatic, exploded states; beams of light passing through objects [like the famous slit experiment]; material constantly altering underground, unobserved, until captured and displayed; stuttering poetry where only a slice of a situation’s true whole can possibly be captured, and must thereby be full of holes and half-words. It’s as though the concept of metaphysical subjectivity has found a new definition in the quantum phenomena, and THAT’S the theme that flows up from the exhibition’s ground floor - those frozen material states - to the reverberating physical impossibility of the paintings on the top floor.

  Also the bar is on the top floor, which is a jolly good reason to walk up those stairs.

  Thu, September 30, 2010 - 9:30:08

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