Cortez arrives… is an exhibition of contemporary art which will take place at the Herbert Read Gallery in the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, from 6th March to 2nd May 2009, with work by Jo Addison, Adam Gillam, Mike Marshall, Max Mosscrop, Alice Walton and Simon Wells.
The exhibition considers the premise that art sometimes has unreasonable beginnings. The title is taken from an unpublished fragment by the poet George Oppen:
Cortez arrives at an unknown shore
he is absolutely lost
and he is enraptured.
The theme of the exhibition was generated through playful reflection on the incorporation of art schools into universities, and the consideration of art as a form of knowledge. The show includes painting, sculpture, photography and collage by six artists who cultivate accidents, chance, and apparent foolishness, to suspend conscious understanding and reawaken a sense of the strangeness of the world.
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