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Rankle & Reynolds is the working name of British artists Alan Rankle (born in Oldham 1952) and Kirsten Reynolds (born in Macclesfield 1968) who have been collaborating on art projects since 2008 when they first worked together on the exhibition 'Curious & Curiouser' at Rebecca Kormind Gallery, Copenhagen. (1) Their next collaboration took the form of a video 'Warp Factor' made by Reynolds using paintings by Rankle, which was premiered in Copenhagen in 2009. Prior to their first meeting in St. Leonards-on-Sea, much of the artists' earlier work and activities had been characterized by a willingness to collaborate with others in a variety of disciplines and to share ideas towards common aspirations. Reynolds began working collaboratively when she joined pyrotechnic percussion group The Bow Gamelan in 1998 and then continued on to work with Paul Burwell on many large-scale outdoor shows in unusual locations including a derelict zinc factory in Katowice, Poland and the harbour in Kolding Denmark as part of Hydronorts with Harald Viuff. Project Dark is a music and art project founded by Reynolds and Ashley Davies in 1995. Project Dark create sculptural seven inch singles that are exhibited and also used as the basis for an expanded DJ show. Project Dark were invited by John Peel to play at his Meltdown '98 Festival and performed in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the South Bank Centre, London. Project Dark went on to play at many international events including Music in the Anchorage, Brooklyn Bridge, New York in 1997 and Sonar Festival in Barcelona 1999. Reynolds has been contributing work to the large-scale nocturnal sound and light event Power Plant since 2005. Power Plant is created by Reynolds with Mark Anderson, Anne Bean, Jony Easterby and Ulf Pedersen and takes place in public parks or botanical gardens at night. Recent shows have been presented as part of the Sydney Festival, Australia (January 2011), the Hong Kong Arts Festival (February 2011) and Ten Days on the Island Festival (March 2011) in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. In recent years Rankle has made videos with several main associates notably the composer and musician Colin Gibson, the writer and environmentalist Tom Burke and Rankle's own son, film-maker Jonathan Rankle. Rankle has also produced an ongoing series of installations and interventions with sculptor Tim Nathan in various contexts including the large scale museum installation, 'On the Edge of Arcadia' premiered at Gallery Oldham in 2007, which also included contributions from Gibson and Burke. (2) Prior to his exhibition 'Riverfall & Other Works' at Southampton City Art Gallery in 1993, and his subsequent decision to concentrate on painting, Rankle had worked extensively within fields of social interactivity and community projects, often with environmental concerns. (3) Initially collaborating with artists group 'Order out of Chaos' on large scale pieces such as 'Discarded Sculptures' 1988, and later with architect Joe Ravetz, architectural writer and founder of Hastings Trust, Nick Wates and Christine Goldschmidt, Rankle worked on a variety of projects including the exhibition 'Earthscape' 1991 which took its inspiration from a work by Alighiero Boetti called 'For the Collective Psyche of Nature' and invited contributions from the world at large and which aimed at "developing a particular background or matrix on which the creativity of individual contributors can resonate". (4) In these and other curatorial projects Rankle's work from this period has affinities with the socially interactive, cross discipline activities of such conceptual artists as Jeremy Deller and Deryck Healey and relates strongly to his early enthusiasm for artists in the Arte Povera movement, and the concept of the artist as curator and catalyst encouraging diverse ways of dispersing the boundaries of conventional disciplines. Rankle & Reynolds produced their first major exhibition 'On the Edge of Wrong' for the Fondazione Stelline to accompany the 2010 retrospective of Alan Rankle's paintings. 'On the Edge of Wrong' comprised jointly-made paintings developed from themes in Reynold's 'Following Darkness' series of long exposure light drawing photographs made in a woodland at dusk. Rankle & Reynolds continued to develop techniques of collborative painting that was termed "four hand painting" by the Italian critic Emanuele Bellufi. (6). A further suite of long exposure light drawings entitled 'Electro' was created by Reynolds within a cavernous industrial space. These images in turn became reference material for further joint paintings that were shown at Federico Rui Arte Contemporanea in the exhibition Alan Rankle. Kirsten Reynolds. Recent Works, April – May 2011. Collaborative paintings from the series 'On the Edge of Wrong' were also shown at First Gallery, Rome, The Chelsea Brasserie, London, and the group show 'The Dance Card' curated by Dan Howard-Birt at LIDO Projects, St. Leonards-on-Sea. Rankle & Reynolds also created an eight metre long lightbox installation for Kitts nightclub, London in 2010. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rankle & Reynolds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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