HEAVY METAL MOUTH

 

HEAVY METAL MOUTH
 
24 -26 TORPHICHEN STREET, EDINBURGH
27TH JUNE - 12TH JULY
12- 6PM THURSDAY - SUNDAY
 
Polarcap, in collaboration with
Hyperground, is pleased to announce the opening of its fourth exhibition, Heavy
Metal Mouth.
 
Heavy Metal Mouth takes as its theme the
idea of contemporary Heavy Metal culture and how it is perceived by the 13
artists who have been invited to respond to the following text by participating
artist Norman Shaw:

 

"Heavy metal culture
represents an attitude which is not generally connected with fine art. Yet from
cock-rock to black metal, it is an extremely nuanced, contradictory, and
complex organism, mutated on currents of northern romanticism, sublime
melancholy, gothic horror, expressionism, fin-de-siècle occultism, surrealist
eroticism, and existential doom. From extreme violence to delicate sensitivity,
from complexity to minimalism, it is a kind of anti-art with a unique identity;
misanthropic, tasteless and belligerent.

 

These artists draw new metal
ores from distorted rock; alchemists of the blazing northern sky".

 

The exhibition is to be
held on floors 4-6 , 24-26 Torphichen Street , Edinburgh. The building is a
former DHSS building and is familiar to several of the artists [and the
curators] for jobstart interviews and the like. Now it is time for their
revenge; a chance to erase the memory of those dolorous days, waiting patiently
in line.

 

As in previous Polarcap
shows, the artists are drawn from a diverse pool of ages and experience; from
established to recently graduated artists and with interests ranging from:
film, installation, drawing, painting ,sound installation , performance and
sculpture. There are new canvasses by Neil Clements in the shape of metal guitar
[ axe] bodies , magnetic tape wall pieces by Masahiro Kawanaka that relates to
his everyday experience in a series of one-word statements , an installation of
Metal album covers from the extensive collection of Norman Shaw, a dvd
projection of Krautrock icon Damo Suzuki by Liz Adamson and a figure of Bon
Scott of AC/DC made fro Kirriemuir rock and ‘licked into shape by a woman
called Rosie [ Whole Lotta].

 

Polarcap are Dunbar based
artists Graeme Todd and LIz Adamson and they run contemporary art projects from
various venues with a view to enlarging the contemporary art audience to out of
town venues as well as in the city.

Hyperground  is run by Edinburgh artist Alexa Hare
and has staged art exhibitions in domestic locations in Edinburgh. Alexa is
also a student at ECA, studying on the Intermedia MFA course.

 

ARTISTS participating in
Heavy Metal Mouth are:

 

Liz Adamson - Polarcap ,
lecturer ECA

Neil Clements- recent show
at Doggerfisher

Malcy Duff - publishes Heavy
Metal influenced artist books as Missing Twin

Benjamin Fallon

Alexa Hare - Hyperground

Sacha Kahir  - Film maker

Masahiro Kawawaka - based in
Kyoto, works with Weissraum [Project space]

Duncan Marquiss- Artist and
musician [ Phantom Band]

Rachel Maclean - Graduated
ECA this year - Video, painting

Emily Ritchie - Graduated
ECA, lives + works in Berlin

Norman Shaw - Artist,
musician

Eddie Summerton  - multimedia artist, senior lecturer
Duncan of Jordanstone

Andy Wake - artist, musician
[ Phantom Band]

 

/ENDS

 

For further press
information please contact:

Liz Adamson or Graeme Todd

21 Parsonspool, Dunbar EH42
1JN

Tel: 01368 860 963;
07958048097

Email: [email protected]

Or visit our website at: http://www.polarcap.org.uk

 

 

Notes to Editors:

• Previous Polarcap Exhibitions:

            YOU
DO VOODOO - West Barns Studios, East Lothian. 2006  [ catalogue             available]

            NO
MORE STARS - Edinburgh College of Art + West Barns Studios,             Edinburgh
Arts Festival 2007 [ catalogue available].

            ESKIMO
- Eskmills, Musselburgh, Edinburgh Arts Festival  2008             [catalogue
available]

 

• Previous Hyperground Exhibitions

            Alexa
Hare, Alex Bates, Tayto et Tayto - Annuale 2006

            DOUBLE
TAKE Matthew Ingles August 2007