curator: Tom Rowland artist: Tim Davies venue: Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice - Castello Venezia on Google maps link: Art Council of Wales - Wales at the Venice Biennale
txt: about Tim Davies - www.artscouncilofwales.org
Tim Davies is part of a constituency of artists, working transnationally, who are committed to ‘place’ but also function in the world, who do not prescribe our understanding nor privilege their own by adopting an avant-garde position. Davies works by unpicking the locks of human experience, from a position already beyond Modernism, rather than leading any sort of futile charge against it. He asks that we explore the nature and meaning of that experience with him. He also embodies, in his practice, a role for the artist which has both intimacy and, at the same time, the wider reach necessary to access the individual and collective public mind and it is this which makes it a new, necessary kind of ‘public’ art (essay in The Butler Gallery’s Kilkenny Shift catalogue, 2009).
video: Poem in October by Gerald Conn on vimeo.com
