BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3796@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180705T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180728T140000 DTSTAMP:20181210T180617Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/ib18-corke-art-gallery-andrew-ma rr-angels-open-windows/ SUMMARY:Corke Gallery: IB18: Corke Art Gallery: Andrew Marr: Angels & Open Windows DESCRIPTION:Angels &\; Open Windows\nAndrew Marr\n\n5 – 28 July 2018\n \nNew collection of abstract and semi abstract paintings in intense colour s painted by Andrew Marr in 2018.\n\nA year on from Andrew Marr's first so lo exhibition at the Corke Gallery in Liverpool\, Andrew has been busy p ainting a collection of new paintings especially for this new show\, Ange ls and Open Windows\, which marks the start of our Independents Biennial 2 018 Series of exhibitions which run through until the end of the year.\n\n In the extract below\, from the Angels &\; Open Windows catalogue An drew endeavours to explain what influences the way he paints and what has inspired the paintings in this new exhibition:\n\nAs a writer and a journa list\, my mission is to explain as crisply and clearly as I can\, what I a m up to – and that goes for painting\, as well as everything else. I loa the the abstruse hermeneutics of “art-speak” – the deliberately obsc ure\, windy blather stolen by the art world from the worst of 20th centur y academic nonsense\, basically in order to intimidate the uninitiated and keep the unwashed rabble at bay.\n\nGood language is a bridge to understa nding. Bad language is an electric fence. Essentially art-speak is about w arning off and saying to the viewer. “Don’t trust your eyes and your o wn emotional reaction. You’re not educated and intelligent enough to und erstand what the Artist is up to.” I hate all that. So\, at the risk of sounding naive or simpleminded\, I want to be as clear as possible.\n\nIn the last show I had at the Corke Gallery a year ago\, there were a ser ies of pictures we called “bounce” which were\, pretty obviously\, all about falling and getting up again.  They were joyous in tone\, brightl y coloured. But when I made them\, I was still preoccupied by problems of falling over\, after my stroke a couple of years earlier. So\, it seemed c lear enough that these shapes had a meaning. They were part of the way I w as coming to terms with disability.\n\nAfter that\, I found lots of images tumbling out.  Precipitous images. Images about going down\, deep into t he sea – I love snorkelling over reefs with fish -  and suddenly pushin g high into the air.  In my dreams and in my drawings\, I was leaning out of high windows\, possibly about to fall out\, into weird landscapes and seascapes.  Shooting stars and radically stripped-down figures\, a littl e like jet-propelled angels\, began to appear\; and then simple feather-li ke wing shapes.  Since they come from my subconscious and I am not tradit ionally religious\, I’m not entirely sure what if anything all this mean s. But I think it’s about a celebration of life opening up again\, after a dark period. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2018/07/Bright-Jug-on-a-Table-e1530904704142.jpg LOCATION:Corke Gallery\, 296-298 Aigburth Road\, Liverpool\, L17 9PW\, Liv erpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.374805;-2.93913 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=296-298 Aigburth Road\, Liv erpool\, L17 9PW\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE= Corke Gallery:geo:53.374805,-2.93913 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180325T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR