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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. |
