Exhibition
Unsplit Peak Problem - Royal College of Art
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a series of unusual events caused a peak in the Earth’s Orbital Cycle. An ice age buried our seasons, wiping out entire species and causing great giants of mountains to rise. A mathematician, Milankovich, developed a way to calculate these cycles, but there were such significant problems that we are still unable to predict our planet’s next fateful peak.
‘Unsplit Peak Problem’ is an exhibition of fourteen artists from a widely stretching plane of diverse backgrounds and interests. First, as strangers, they came together to witness the birth of a mountain at the RCA sculpture department and to aid it in its growth over a period of several months. All that ties these fourteen is their efforts and experiences around the sculpture they helped transform. Over this time of gradual mountain formation, the RCA has acted as a bubble, a world within itself, where the artists have worked alongside one another, creating an unusual peak under strange circumstances.
The exhibition is a celebration of difference: difference in background, difference in personality, difference in practice, ranging from painting and sculpture to illustration and surface design. It is rare to see such a mixture of creative practices exhibited together: a collective grouped and strung above the inherently random and uncontrollable mêlée.
‘Unsplit Peak Problem’ offers a rare chance to see an objective representation of contemporary culture: a bold, strong and true action in an inherently self-conscious time. The exhibition will include works by:
Yi-Han Chen, Lawrence Epps, Maria Gafarova, Justin Harrison, Claire Hazelton, Joanna Hebouche, Adele St Hilaire, Jon Gabb, Eva Masterman, Ashti Rasul, Maria Sarkis, Hermione Spriggs, Joseph Taylor Mcrae, Ross Robertson and Ana Rojas Vega
Private View: 9th July 2010, 6-8pm
Exhibition: 10th – 16th July 2010, 10am – 6pm
