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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/contemporary-phantasmagoria-3-pa
 int-thing/
SUMMARY:Cornerstone: (contemporary) phantasmagoria 3: Paint-Thing
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition takes place in the Cornerstone Gallery\, Liverp
 ool Hope University Creative Campus\, 17 Shaw Street\, Liverpool L6 1HP an
 d runs from 28th March - 12th May 2026.\n\nThe Artist Talk will take place
  in the Grace Room on Tuesday 21st April 2026 at 4.30pm\, followed by a Pr
 ivate View in the Cornerstone Gallery from 5.30 - 7pm.\n\nDrawing on Walte
 r Benjamin’s term ‘phantasmagoria’ which he used to describe the rei
 fied world of objects and images- abject or opulent- that populated the st
 reets of modern cities in the 19th and 20th centuries\, this third iterati
 on of the phantasmagoria project looks to enlarge the scope of Benjamin’
 s definition\, the better to take the measure of our fragmentary\, collagi
 c\, screen-mediated contemporary reality.\n\nBenjamin is best known for hi
 s kaleidoscopic approach to writing. Turning it to philosophy\, history\, 
 sociology\, art criticism and journalism\, he made an audacious and highly
  influential attempt to find new ways to chart the impact of capitalism on
  the psychic life of the West and its cultures in the first half of the 20
 th century.\n\nIn the spirit of Benjamin’s multi-disciplinary writings\,
  the selected artists\, under the rubric of ‘Paint-Thing’\, focus on t
 he contemporary clashing and commingling of both picture plane and sculptu
 ral object. Since the 1960s\, the discreet disciplines of painting and scu
 lpture have courted and contradicted\, seduced and denied each other. The 
 artists in Paint-Thing re-engage with this tryst between two and three dim
 ensions\, rendering it\, as Benjamin might\, as a site of complex disrupti
 ons\, antagonisms and mutations informed by disparate ideas from the histo
 ry of art and the (de)materiality of the life we are living now.\n\nThe Ar
 tists: Phillip Allen\, Olivia Bax\, John Bunker\, Jane Clarke\, Karen Davi
 d\, Matt Dennis\, Neil Gall\, Deborah Gardner\, John Gibbons\, Alexis Hard
 ing\, Simon Hiscock\, Emma Lilly\, Angela Lucas\, Jane Millar\, Ken Turner
 \, Haysom Smith.
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition Launch,Exhibitions
LOCATION:Cornerstone\, Hope Creative Campus\, Shaw Street\, Liverpool\, L6 
 1HP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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