Oliver Beer
Oliver Beer by Jonathan Watkins is a comprehensive exploration of the British artist’s work, published by Ikon in 2017. This edition spans 186 pages and is presented in English. The book delves into Beer’s artistic practice, which prominently features film and sculpture, with a particular focus on sound. Central to this catalogue is a newly commissioned work titled Reanimation (I Wan’na be Like You), which reinterprets a scene from Disney’s The Jungle Book, involving 2,500 children from Birmingham who contributed drawings that reflect their developmental stages.
Readers will find a detailed examination of the themes present in Beer’s work, particularly the relationship between the physical properties and emotional significance of objects. The catalogue includes essays by Jonathan Watkins and Mami Kataoka, providing insights into the exhibition held at Ikon Gallery from March 15 to June 4, 2017. Through its focus on art, collections, and individual artists, this publication invites a deeper understanding of the human experience as expressed through Beer’s innovative approach to time and animation.
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Through film and sculpture, with a strong emphasis on sound, British artist, Oliver Beer’s work exemplifies a preoccupation with both the physical properties and emotional value of objects.At the heart of the exhibition (and this catalogue) is a new work, commissioned by Ikon, Reanimation (I Wan’na be Like You) (2017) which is a ‘re-animation’ of a scene from Walt Disney’s, The Jungle Book.2,500 children, from early years until the age of 13 from Birmingham, were involved, each drawing a single film still put in order of the children’s ages, so that the animation becomes increasingly ‘grown up’.Frame by frame the scribbles of infants progressively give way to the increasingly lucid drawings of children and then adolescents. This work touches on the inexorable passage of time – through a time-based medium – in order to develop our consideration of what it is like to be human.The catalogue features essays by Ikon Director, Jonathan Watkins and Mami Kataoka, Chief Curator at Mori Museum, Tokyo.Cover image photo-caption: The Resonance Project: Composition for a New Museum, 2014; traces left by singers’ hands, feet and foreheads following architectural acoustic performance for Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Ikon Gallery, 15 March – 4 June 2017.
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