Carl Gent
Carl Gent is an artist, musician and writer from Bexhill-on-sea, UK. His works combine sculpture with durational performance. In his 2017 work The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, for example, Gent created a cesspit (out of clay and soapy liquid), and posited as an an inverted depiction of an image of St. Alban's Abbey found in a copy of the 13th century document Vitae Offarum Dourum. Writes Gent, "the sculpture sought to take the narrative elements of the Vitae Offarum Duorum, bogus or otherwise, and introduce materials, methodologies and motifs that can mutate and re-fictionalise this misogynist telling of the life of Cynethryth." In addition to the sculptural work, Gent organized a performance at the site.
Gent received his MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2015 and his BA in Fine Art from UCA, Farnham in 2009. He has exhibited at a number of galleries including Casal Solleric in Palma, Spain; Green Ray in London; the Museum of Technology at Cambridge; Sokol Gallery in Moscow; and Cafe Oto Project Space in London. He co-curated Material Cryptographies, a two-day seminar considering the implications of encryption practices for contemporary existence and art-making at Tenderpixel in London; performed at …
Carl Gent is an artist, musician and writer from Bexhill-on-sea, UK. His works combine sculpture with durational performance. In his 2017 work The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, for example, Gent created a cesspit (out of clay and soapy liquid), and posited as an an inverted depiction of an image of St. Alban's Abbey found in a copy of the 13th century document Vitae Offarum Dourum. Writes Gent, "the sculpture sought to take the narrative elements of the Vitae Offarum Duorum, bogus or otherwise, and introduce materials, methodologies and motifs that can mutate and re-fictionalise this misogynist telling of the life of Cynethryth." In addition to the sculptural work, Gent organized a performance at the site.
Gent received his MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2015 and his BA in Fine Art from UCA, Farnham in 2009. He has exhibited at a number of galleries including Casal Solleric in Palma, Spain; Green Ray in London; the Museum of Technology at Cambridge; Sokol Gallery in Moscow; and Cafe Oto Project Space in London. He co-curated Material Cryptographies, a two-day seminar considering the implications of encryption practices for contemporary existence and art-making at Tenderpixel in London; performed at Gustav Metzger’s "Facing Extinction" conference; and has held a residency at Wysing Arts Centre in Bourn, UK and the ICA/Goldsmiths Summer School at Academic Dacha in Vishny Volochok, Russia.
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