Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Installation shots of Robin Megannity's exhibition 'Call of The Void' at Workplace | London
Robin Megannity
Call of the Void

27 April - 3 June 2023

50 Mortimer Street, London

Robin Megannity

Call of the Void

Venue
50 Mortimer Street

London,

United Kingdom

Date
27 April – 3 June 2023

Workplace is delighted to present Call of the Void, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Manchester based artist Robin Megannity. The exhibition explores Megannity’s endeavour to hold paradoxical or contrary sentiments within his painting that connect the ubiquitous with the sublime.

 

L’appel du vide, is a French phrase which literally means “the call of the void,” and describes the widely experienced phenomena of the strong or compelling urge one might feel to jump or fall from a high place, such as from a tall building or precipitously soaring cliff. It is a vision of a dangerous action that appears like a flash across previously calm or disinterested thoughts exposing a shift, or psychological quiver, between the conscious and unconscious mind.


Video:

Robin Megannity on Call of the Void

Robin Megannity discusses the ideas behind the works in his solo exhibition Call of the Void at Workplace | London.

Call of the Void explores Megannity’s endeavour to hold paradoxical or contrary sentiments within his painting that connect the ubiquitous with the sublime. Historical techniques and traditions of painting are appropriated and quoted in his work, and the pathos, melancholy and solemnity of Northern European still life paintings are interrupted by references to digital image making. Glitches and ruptures in the framing of his images connect the temporality of the historical source imagery with commonplace contemporary means of media manipulation.


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