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HICA (the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art) is an artist-run space, located near Inverness in the North of Scotland.

It aims to re-examine the term Concrete Art.

Concrete Art was originally conceived as a way of interpreting non-representational artwork, separate from all symbolism or abstract content. HICA would follow more recent developments of this point of view and apply the same thinking to any and all works of art: exploring meaning as the actual present materials and their relation to, their placing within, their context.
HICA would take the ‘context’ to mean also the wider context, looking beyond the immediate gallery setting for other, more fundamental or extraneous, input into the particular dialogue: the interactions between the art-activity and the wider world.

The works exhibited, in themselves, may be more or less related to ideas of Concrete Art, but in being exhibited at HICA, it is suggested, will always be viewed through the filter of these concerns.

The work shown may be any kind of artwork.

 

 

Through the stated concerns of the space, HICA would be in agreement with many of the original motivations for, and would consider all exhibited artworks as, Installations. However, the gallery would also wish to re-examine the production of art-objects and propose that, under the scrutiny of the wider contextual view provided by Installation Art, a return to art-objects may be desirable.