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| A brand new exhibition of work by leading British and international contemporary artists will take place at Millennium Galleries, Sheffield from 17 September – 11 December 2005. The Real Ideal follows the success of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Recent Works in 2004 as part of a vibrant contemporary art programme supported by Arts Council England, Yorkshire. The exhibition will be a multimedia sensation and will be free to the public. |
| The Real Ideal responds to the tension between utopian visions of the world and the conflicting imperfect reality of everyday life. It will transport the visitor to a dream world where it will shake their imagination and turn it on its head. The Real Ideal takes the fantasies of perfection and exposes the darker reality of life in works by artists who present things that are not quite as they seem. |
| The exhibition will contain visually stunning works including commissions by Katie Deith, Theo Kaccoufa and Michael Samuels. It will also showcase work by a number of other artists, including internationally renowned artists, Pipilotti Rist, Gergory Crewdson and Cornelia Parker alongside emerging artists such as Heather and Ivan Morison and Sarah Woodfine. |
| The Real Ideal will be at the core of the city-wide festival, ArtSheffield 05 (29 October - 26 November 2005). www.artsheffield.org. |
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| Artists Including: |
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| Gregory Crewsdon - American photographer Gregory Crewdson's photographs are often the result of highly complex staged scenes that are constructed by the artist and then digitally manipulated. His still images act as disturbingly incomplete sentences, with little reference to what went on before and what may follow. |
| Katie Deith - Katie Deith deals in fantasy and her work grants all power to the imagination. The effect is that of escapism layered upon escapism; and her images that are overtly unreal and unnatural. The initial familiarity of the enticing images of holiday destinations are displaced by ambiguity and disorientation, qualities most readily associated with dreams. |
| Theo Kaccoufa - The group of Genetically Modified Bears by Theo Kaccoufa present us with the paradox of both attraction and revulsion. They refer directly to the future with their dull metallic sheen and suggest the possibilities of genetic manipulation. Kaccoufa is also being commissioned to create new sculptures in his Cyber Flora series. This group of poetic wire sculptures take the form of painted lines in space, which whilst being beautiful are also oversized and unnatural. |
| Heather and Ivan Morison - Heather & Ivan Morison observe, collect and record the things they come into contact with, embracing chance encounters and seeking out subjects which are on the edge of daily life; the everyday and the incidental, the unusual, the hidden and the unforeseen. This is an attempt to provide insight, to investigate the things that surround us and to shed light on our place within these things. |
| Cornelia Parker - In 1997 Cornellia Parker was awarded a residency at ArtPace in Sansolo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and Deitch Projects, New York. She has works in the Tate Collection and in numerous public and private collections in Europe and the USA. Parkeris represented by Frith Street Gallery, London. |
| Pipilotti Rist - Swiss Born Pipilotti Rist creates colourful and light-hearted multi-screened video installations. She gained international fame in recent years through her participation in the Venice Biennale (1993 and 1997) and numerous world-wide solo exhibitions. Her video projection, Sip My Ocean (1996) will be included in The Real Ideal. |
| Michael Samuels - Michael Samuels graduated from the Royal College of Art Sculpture MA in 2000. His work was most recently shown at the Zoo Art Fair, London. Samuels will be producing commissioned work for The Real Ideal. |
| Sarah Woodfine - Sarah Woodfine depicts imaginary worlds which are reminiscent of fairytales and dreamlike spaces. Her pencil drawings can be presented as 3-dimensional – cut-outs in a perspex box, or they can be encased as the central image inside a snow dome. In both instances the image changes at every angle making moving around the object part of the seeing. Her fantasy worlds disappear unnervingly. Sarah Woodfine won the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2004. |
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| Notes to Editors: |
| Millennium Galleries, Arundel Gate, Sheffield, S1 2PP Tel. 0114 278 2600 |
| Millennium Galleries is open Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm, Sunday 11am – 5pm |
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