Y O U at MOSTYN, Llandudno – Exhibition review in MOUSSE Magazine
“Y O U” at MOSTYN, Llandudno
July 7~2013
MOUSSE Magazine
Rivane Neuenschwander, […], 2005
Július Koller, J.K. – Ping-Pong Club (U.F.O.), 1970 – 2007
As the inaugural exhibition of MOSTYN’s new programme of exhibitions, “Y O U” addresses, and dialogues with, the time in which it takes place. It brings together works by five international artists that invite or require your involvement, aiming to create close relationships with you, the audience.
“Y O U” engages you in ways that you may not be accustomed to in relation to your experience of artworks and exhibitions to date. As it responds to you, and is subject to perpetual change and re-order in accordance to your activity, it challenges conventional codes of behaviour in the context of a gallery space.
While the exhibition considers the art historical background of the relationship between artwork and viewer, and its growing status over time, it asks, how do these works engage and forge relationships with audiences in distinctively different ways from any other works of art? How is the role of the viewer elevated and placed into the centre uniquely? Through exhibiting artworks that engender such questions,”Y O U” hopes to build an alliance between you, the artwork and MOSTYN itself.
In addition to the artworks on view is a display by the School of Psychology, Bangor University comprising cultural artifacts, documents and other items showing the connection between physical objects and our cognition. In so doing, the intention is to place the artworks by the participating artists in a broader cultural and contextual field, and enlarge upon our engagement with, and perception of, objects in general.
This exhibition is accompanied by a solo presentation of the work of Keith Arnatt and is the first set of exhibitions of MOSTYN’s new programme, curated by Adam Carr, Visual Arts Programme Curator at MOSTYN, Llandudno (North Wales, UK).
Developments in Conceptual Art: the relationship between Artwork and Audience
Developments in Conceptual Art: the relationship between Artwork and Audience
A symposium organised by North Wales Open Studios Network in partnership with MOSTYN| CYMRU| WALES
Date: 30.6.2013
Time: 11am-3pm
Venue: MOSTYN, 12 Vaughan St, Llandudno, LL30 1AB
Speakers: Aurelien Froment (artist), Bedwyr Williams (artist), Alfredo Cramerotti (Director, MOSTYN), Adam Carr (VIsual Arts Programme Curator, MOSTYN)
Programme
11am-12pm Presentation by Adam Carr about the art historical background of the relationship between artwork and viewer and its growing status over time.
Carr’s presentation, titled “The Viewer and Conceptual Art & Conceptual Art and The Viewer” will look at the history and legacy of conceptual art investigating its inception, its main proponents and how it looks at the world around us with particular focus on the role of the viewer.
12pm-12.45pm Lunch
12.45pm-2.45pm Panel Discussion
Some forms of Conceptual Art engage the viewer in ways that they may not be accustomed to in relation to their experience of artworks and exhibitions. The panel will be talking about how shows like “YOU”, the current MOSTYN exhibition, respond to the visitor, and are subject to perpetual change and re-order in accordance to their activity, thereby challenging conventional codes of behaviour in the context of a gallery space.
How do these works engage and forge relationships with audiences in distinctively different ways from any other works of art? How is the role of the viewer elevated and placed into the centre uniquely? Does it build a different alliance between Viewer, artwork and gallery?
This is an opportunity to hear about the “Y O U” exhibition from Curator Adam Carr and discuss the development of the role of the “viewer”, with artists Aurelien Froment and Bedwyr Williams and Alfredo Cramerotti, director of MOSTYN.
If you are interested in booking for this session please contact sabine@helfagelf.co.uk
This project has received funding through the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007-2013 which is funded by the Welsh Government and the European Agricultural fund for Rural Development
MOSTYN Sunday Talk 9 June 2013 : If YOU are in control of your life, who is controlling YOU?
Prof. Guillaume Thierry from Bangor University will be giving this talk at mid-day on 9th June. Guillaume has done the display about cognition for the current exhibition ‘Y O U’ in MOSTYN.
Reflecting on our perception of and interaction with objects through an ‘expert’s’ eyes, and mixing the included artworks with other fields of study, this promises to be a very engaging and inclusive talk where audience participation is encouraged.
Interview: MOSTYN’S NEW PROGRAMME
AMA–Art Media Agency Newsletter 95
by Tanja Schreiner
28 March 2013
Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti] 
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