Malcolm LE GRICE, Castle, 1964

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(with additions from 2015)
Installation, with two paintings, flashing light bulb, found tables, branches, real fruit and two video screens.

Variable dimensions
60 x 60 cm (each painting)

Castle (1964) is a constantly evolving installation that includes various sculptural elements: found objects, a black painting and a flashing light bulb. This is a key transitional work in Malcolm...

Castle (1964) is a constantly evolving installation that includes various sculptural elements: found objects, a black painting and a flashing light bulb. This is a key transitional work in Malcolm Le Grice’s practice as it bridges together his fine art background and his subsequent career in avant-garde filmmaking.

Castle (1964) is often shown together with a very large sister ‘painting’, Lightbulb Assemblage (1964) and the expanded film Castle 1 (1966). The lightbulb is a recurrent element within these works: it is at the same time a real object, a collage (the ‘real’ lightbulb box), and a pre-recorded, then screened, image. By repeating this same element throughout the four related works, Le Grice provokes a conceptual discourse on representation and the ‘real’.

The current installation of Castle (2015) includes a film element: a miniature version of Castle 1 (1966) and a videocamera which feeds the image of an actual hanging lightbulb and the surrounding environment through two small screens nestled within the assemblage.

Exhibitions

1968. Malcolm Le Grice: Location? Duration, Arts Laboratory Drury Lane, London, UK

2011. Malcolm Le Grice: Le Temps des Images, Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourgogne, France

2012. Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

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Malcolm Le Grice British, 1940-2024

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Malcolm LE GRICE British, 1940-2024

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