Upcoming Exhibition: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
Posted by michael on January 13th, 2008“We’ll Always Have Paris: Bent Tales from the Sub-Atomic”
Carl Gopalkrishnan has been exhibiting in Australia and the US since 1987. His artwork has always been about explorations in Conciousness Studies, from the perspective of society and personal relationships to politics. “We’ll Always Have Paris” focuses specifically on Carl’s interest in quantum theory and how it might twist ordinary life.
Einstein once referred to quantum physics as a ’spooky’ science because it challenges all aspects of what we associate with what is ‘normal’ (or the classic physics of Isaac Newton). Carl says that the more he learnt about quantum theory, the more he realised that these traditional laws of physics are still used to describe things - our histories and identities. He poses the question, “what if we erased those assumptions and read our stories with new laws, what would they look like?”
In this show, Carl explores these theories in a more imaginative and playful framework using well known public myths and literature. For example, in one set of paintings he looks at the 1997 death of Princess Diana. In another, the fictional characters, Cathy-Heathcliff-Cathy from Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Schrodinger’s Cat story used to explain quantum theory.
He grounds the pictures in the cliché “We’ll always have Paris”, used by lovers to recover lost memory, feeling, imagination and a reference point to measure time in their life.
Please join us for opening drinks on Thursday the 17th January at 6pm.
The exhibition runs until the 1st February, 11am - 6pm daily.
Keith and Lottie.
276 William Street
Northbridge WA 6003.
“Wuthering Shanghai”