Dolmen - Endurance
What allows places to endure and thrive?
What can Turin tell us?
Dolmen is an ongoing artistic investigative structure.
Rather than illustrating history, each presentation assembles works by contemporary artists as fragments within a shared enquiry.
Landscape, memory, material and organisation become interconnected evidence rather than separate subjects.
The exhibition proposes no single conclusion.
Instead, it invites viewers to construct their own understanding of Turin across thousands of years.
The investigation is activated through works by the participating artists, whose details appear at the end of the presentation.The sequence deliberately resists chronology, beginning with memory and endurance before returning to origins, as places are more often understood through what remains than through any recoverable beginning.
Dolmen II - Memory
Mari Amman : Dolmen II - I
Mari Amman : Dolmen II - II
Juca Máximo : Dolmen II - I
Abu Jafar : Dolmen II - I
Fragment - Standing Witness
Mattia Bosco - Dolmen Fragment I
Jasmine Pradissitto - Dolmen Fragment I
Dolmen III - What gives strength?
Gala Caki : Dolmen III - I
Gala Caki : Dolmen III - II
Jo Walton : Dolmen III - I
Jo Walton : Dolmen III - II
Peter Schäublin : Dolmen III - I
Dolmen IV - What Binds?
Kaan Ege Önal : Dolmen IV - I
Brian Brooks: Dolmen IV - I
Iluá Hauck da Silva : Dolmen IV - I
Iluá Hauck da Silva : Dolmen IV - II
Séan Cotter : Dolmen IV - I
Jasmine Pradissitto : Dolmen IV - I
Simon James : Dolmen IV - I
Mary Blindflowers: Dolmen IV - I
Dolmen I - Beginnings?
Séan Cotter - Dolmen I - I
Simon James : Dolmen I - I
Brian M. Brooks : Dolmen I - I
Presentation activated by the works of:
Jo Walton
Seán Cotter
Jasmine Pradissitto
Simon James
Iluá Hauck da Silva
Peter Schäublin
Gala Caki
Kaan Ege Önal
Mari Amman
Mattia Bosco
Juca Máximo
Brian Martin Brooks
Mary Blindflowers
For more details on presentation, works and to take part in the investigation click here to see our Investigative notebook,(forthcoming - test version here). More details on the artists are at the base of this page, while the notebook is completed)
Turin - What has allowed Turin to endure?
We have proposed four lines of enquiry.
Landscape.
Memory.
Strength.
Organisation.
But other possibilities remain.
Trade.
Language.
Faith.
Conflict.
Migration.
Chance.
The investigation continues.
Artist Information
Brian Martin Brooks - English artist Brian Martin Brooks brings a lifetime across painting, photography and music into richly layered works concerned with colour, light and more.
Gala Caki - Serbian artist who creates richly coloured, technically precise paintings that move between myth, dream and memory.
Iluá Hauck da Silva - Brazilian-born, London-based artist Iluá Hauck da Silva creates sculptural works exploring the human condition through anatomy, mythology, religious iconography and the tension between beauty and brutality
Jasmine Pradissitto, FRSA - UK based artist and scientist who combines sculpture, technology and environmental research, to explore natural and human systems.
Jo Walton - York-based artist works with oxidation and layered surfaces to create atmospheric abstract works.
Juca Máximo - Brazilian artist Juca Máximo creates emotionally charged paintings and installations exploring memory, identity, absence and human presence
Kaan Ege Önal - Turkish-born, Germany-based artist Kaan Ege Önal combines traditional motifs with contemporary figurative painting to explore cultural identity, shared histories and trans-cultural experience.
Mari Amman -American-born interdisciplinary artist Mari Amman works across photography, installation, video, performance, painting and sculpture.
Mary Blindflowers -Italian-born, Hertfordshire-based artist and writer who creates symbolically charged mixed-media works shaped by her Destructuralist approach to image, language and social critique.
Mattia Bosco - Italian sculptor who works in dialogue with stone, allowing its existing form, colour and geological history to guide restrained interventions in marble, gold, silver and other materials.
Peter Schäublin - Swiss photographer who explores the elemental, material and human through investigations into forces like pressure and other universal constants that shape our environment and existence.
Seán Cotter - Irish artist who creates emotionally charged abstracts exploring memory, atmosphere and the uneasy boundary between turmoil and stillness.
Simon James - Munich-based British artist who builds and erodes layered gesso surfaces, allowing colour, figuration and landscape to emerge through accumulation, incision, sanding and removal.
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