'Openness' at Sketch

6 Week Exhibition starting 29.10.2007

London, 29 October 2007

Open Gallery have been invited to exhibit at Sketch, London’s foremost space for Video Art.

From 29th October, for six weeks, Sketch shall be home to a large-scale installation of the collection 'Openness' which includes works by William Raban, Hilary Lawson, Sanchita Islam, Isabelle Inghilleri, and Alex Bettler.

The installation reveals the unique concept of the video painting of the artists of the Artscape Project: layered movement, abstract framing, an extraordinary aesthetic definition and the complete absence of linear narrative. Fundamentally novel, the work of the artists in this field was made possible by the unprecedented Laluna technology developed by the project, which stores the collections and determines the sequence of projection. Laluna selects the paintings thematically and taking into consideration the time of day and level of activity. Unlike traditional video art, the collections do not loop however long they play.

Distancing itself from film and video convention which has been dominated by the provision of meaning and understanding, the video painting brought by our artists aims to escape our cultural and perceptual closures, freeing the viewer to play in the openness of the visual image.