Exhibition
Mark Dean - The Beginning of the End - Beaconsfield
Catapulted into the eye of the art world in the early 90′s with his first video work LoveLoveLove, Mark Dean caught the attention of the influential art critic Stuart Morgan, was offered a show at City Racing (1992), a place on the MA course at Goldsmiths College (1992-94) and was a prizewinner in New Contemporaries (1993) – all at once.
LoveLoveLove set the pace for a body of distinctive work that was characterised by the use of appropriated clips – image often lacerated from feature films and sound re-mixed from Pop music – and which focussed on the most fundamental aspects of the human condition. In recent years the emphasis on appropriated imagery has given way to the artist often taking up position behind the camera.
The Beginning of the End offers a pause for reflection and will run across the Beaconsfield site in all three exhibition spaces, featuring the new works Love Missile (7” vs 12”), The Men Who Fell to Earth, Forever (Earlier Attempts), Christian Disco (Terminator) and Open Your Eyes (Syd/Vicious). As an integral part of the exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to view the range of Mark Dean’s art works made over the past twenty years, through personal selection. The archive includes the works Dean has made for a number of Beaconsfield projects including Experimental Religion (2008), Crimson & Clover (Version), Rag Doll (Version), Police & Thieves (Version) (all 2005) and Picture In Picture (TyhaerPGincatiurroeDoffoDeorruitacniGPreahyT) (1997).
Mark Dean is a current recipient of a 2010 Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists and on 3 July 2010 was ordained Deacon at St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
