Sun Spot Drawing (Guantanamo City) 2012

installed at ‘Marking Time’, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia
29 March - 3 June, 2012

A simulation of the artist’s hand holds a magnifying glass which concentrates the virtual sun’s rays into one pure white spot on a road reproduced from Guantánamo, Cuba. The hand picks up the lens from the ground at dawn each day and holds it all day until dusk.  At the end of the day. the lens is returned to the ground and the hand exits.  At the beginning and end of each day, when the sun is at a oblique angle, the spot takes on a distorted, almost comet like appearance, while at midday it is at its most concentrated point.  The works unfolds in this way, dawn until dusk each day for a full 365 day year.

commissioned by the MCA, Australia

photos by Alex Davies, in image 3 depicted with Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) 2008
 

Exhibitions

Sun Spot Drawing at Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 2012

29 March - 3 June, 2012
Site specific free standing projection wall
608 cm x 380 x 30 cm
Group show curated by Rachel Kent

Marking Time explored the ways in which artists visualise time and its passing, across diverse media – drawing and watercolour, sculpture and installation, sound and light. An international exhibition selected by MCA Senior Curator Rachel Kent, Marking Time presented major works by eleven artists from Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Japan, and the United States in the Museum’s spacious new top floor galleries.
http://www.mca.com.au/


photos by Alex Davies, in image 3 depicted with Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) 2008
 

Research

2012 · SUN SPOT DRAWING / MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, AUSTRALIA
Photo: Alex Davies
2012 · SUN SPOT DRAWING / MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, AUSTRALIA
Photo: Alex Davies
2012 · SUN SPOT DRAWING / MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, AUSTRALIA
Photo: Alex Davies, depicted with Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) 2008
2012 · SUN SPOT DRAWING / MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, AUSTRALIA
Photo: Alex Davies
Working Drawing for Sun Spot Drawing (Guantanamo City) 2011 (diptych) 2012 giglee print on hahnemuehle photorag 40 x 51 cm per piece Edition of 15 + 5AP

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