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Opening 31st March 2010, 6pm - 9pm 31st March
Until 25th April 2010
Simon Bedwell
John Chilver
Gunter Reski
Yonatan Vinitsky
Standard Candle (SC) is the term used in astronomy to designate an object, such as a type of star, of supposedly known luminosity that's used as a benchmark in determining extreme distances by a comparison between absolute and apparent luminosity. As well as measuring space the SC is a distance indicator also for time, meaning the ultra-distant past from which light has travelled. The works in the show mark their relations to painting as mediated through tactics of display and (counter-)periodisation. The show considers the work done by painting as always also a matter of estimating and stylizing its distance from comparable past and future objects.
