Charles Danby and Rob Smith

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Charles Danby and Rob Smith, Installation view of The Quarry, IMT Gallery

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    Charles Danby & Rob Smith | The Quarry 3rd May – 2nd June 2013

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Video still from Discovering Neptune, 2012, anaglyph video (33mins 35secs, 16:9, looped)

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Top:   Lost Stone, 2013, c-print (40x30cm)

Left:   Lost Cabin, 2013, c-print (40x30cm)

Right:  Lost Quarry, 2013, c-print (40x30cm)

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Top: Forest Triangulation, 2013, c-print  (351x80mm)

Bottom: Quarry Triangulation, 2013, c-print (351x80mm)

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Top: Conglomerate Leave Stone, 2013, c-print, acrylic, chalk, red chalk, wood, glass, pond water, haematite (118x 88x253cm)

Bottom: Detail from Conglomerate Leave Stone, 2013

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Installation views of The Quarry at IMT Gallery, 2013

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Yorkshire chalk, site exploration 

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Yorkshire chalk quarry sites

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From Top: Oxted Quarry, video still from Discovering Neptune (2012)

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‘Chalk-Mirror Displacement’ now a bit more displaced

Art Institute patron trips over exhibit, breaks it

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QUARRY, BY PAUL AUSTER

No more than the song of it. As if

the singing alone

had led us back to this place.

We have been here, and we have never been here.

We have been on the way to where we began,

and we have been lost.

There are no boundaries

in the light. And the earth

leaves no word for us

to sing. For the crumbling of the eart

underfoot

is a music in itself, and to walk among the stones

is to hear nothing

but ourselves.

I sing, therefore, of nothing,

as if it were the place

I do not return to –

and if I should return, then count out my life

in these stones: forget

I was ever here. The world

that walks inside me

is a world beyond reach.

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Oxted Quarry, 2012

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Installation views of Oxted England at Two Queens, 2012

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OXTED ENGLAND

New Exhibition: Oxted England at Two Queens, Leicester

A new collaboration between Charles Danby and Rob Smith exploring the site of Robert Smithson's Chalk-Mirror Displacement produced for When Attitudes Become Form, 1969 at the ICA London. 'Like two men exploring Neptune' the artists present a record of their findings when working with the site of Smithson's only significant earthwork to be made in England through anaglyph film making, photography and installation, drawn in by the mystery surrounding the often misrepresented work.

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