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Louisa Minkin |
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Vault, watercolour and pencil on paper, 26 x 18cm, 2006 |
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"..a town...is an artefact of a curious kind, compounded of willed and random elements, imperfectly controlled. If it is related to physiology at all, it is more like a dream than anything else." 1 |
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In Rome I got interested in the multiple foundation myths of a city, how they act as parentheses or cartouches, one inside the other, narrating spaces through time. A complex set of rituals were practiced by the Augur in siting and orienting a system of architecture. The procedures involved the marking out of a templum; a temporary or temporal structure; a designated space - for instance: an area of the sky where birds could be observed. The templum could be described as an interface, and bears some relation to the Lacanian notion of tableaux - a place where the subject finds her mark |
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1 Rykwert, J.: The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy 1988, MIT Press p 24 |
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Louisa Minkin studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing, University of Oxford, and at the Royal College of Art, London. |
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Recent exhibitions include Sunset is an all day process at LLS 387, Antwerp, Belgium: |
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Surface Wave ; Foxy Production, New York: Huis Clos : Five Years, London,: Cunning Chapters; the British Library, London: Transiti; Accademia Brittanica, Roma: Frenzy, the Metropole Galleries, Folkestone. Awards include the Abbey Fellowship in Painting at the British School at Rome [2006] and the Art Foundation Fellowship in Painting [1994]. |
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She lives and works in London. |
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http://www.louisaminkin.com |
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