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Paintings by
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger

After Chernobyl & The Futures Mirror

Middlesbrough Art Gallery April - May 31
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Since 1986 Cornelia Hesse-Honegger has travelled extensively in Europe to
document the effects of the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in the
Ukraine as well as Three Mile Island in the US and Sellafield in the UK.
She collects hundreds of specimens of insects from the perimeters of
nuclear power installations. Each insect is examined and the point of
collection recorded. Cornelia's hyper-realist aquarelles record any
observed morphological changes.  Her studies of insects affected by the
radiation plume, which make up the exhibitions , show some mutation (s).
These exhibitions of over 80 images raises questions concerning the effects
of fall out in the environment.

Nach Chernobyl  includes some new works, never before seen, and some
specially commissioned watercolours/prints showing specimens collected from
the around the Sellafield Nuclear Plant in Cumbria. The Futures Mirror is
an exhibition of completely new paintings of insects from power stations in
the Canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

After studying at the Commercial Art School in Zurich, Hesse-Honegger
completed her training at the Zoological Institute of the University of
Zurich, the Zoological Station in Naples and the Ecole Superieure des Beaux
Arts in Paris.

Her detailed studies are in the tradition of the stunning images produced
by explorers, scientists and artists who recorded the wildlife of both
chartered and unchartered regions around the world before the use of
photography.

These paintings and prints of insects  encompass an undeniable technical
beauty, whilst at the same time raising complex issues about the role of
the artist in charting the often invisible decline in the environment.

In her words: "It is important for me," says Hesse-Honegger, "to show my
worries in the form of pictures. The strict discipline of following nature
in my paintings, the accuracy in the drawing and the colours, as seen
through the microscope, helps people understand the danger we are in."

This show goes to Nottingham in the autumn but we are seeking collaborative
partners to exhibit these paintings in other places next year, anyone
interested or may know suitable contacts please  contact us at the address
below. A couple of images are on our web site. We have produced a small
booklet for school groups that includes an interview and other information.
I can mail this to any one interested.

Current projects in development  include new commissioned work from Paul
Wong for the ICA in London, the first permanent public artwork by Cathy De
Monchaux and new performance work by Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.

L+ publications and multiples currently available from: Locus+, Printed
Matter New York or Art Data London.

PUBLICATIONS

SEARCH - Pat Naldi & Wendy Kirkup
Videotape (8 minutes). An anthology of 20 ten second television adverts
collected onto one videotape, featuring documentation of the artists on a
synchronised walk in Newcastle city centre, recorded on the UK's first 16
camera  urban surveillance system installed by the Northumbria Police
financed by the business community.
FENG SHUI - Paul Wong, Henry Tsang, Lani Maestro & Sharyn Yuen.
44pp softback (10 col / 14 b&w). Various texts and documentation of a
site-specific installation and performance in a deconsecrated church, as
defined by the ancient Chinese practice of feng shui. Introduction by
Elspeth Sage. ISBN 0-9694777-1-6
WORKING ON THE BYPASS - Andre Stitt, & Daniel Biry.
Compact disc (58 minutes). A compilation of spoken texts by renowned
performance artist Andre Stitt, with musical arrangements by composer
Daniel Biry.
A GOOD BOOK - Virgil Tracy
140pp filofax. Text transcripts of street preachers, collected in filofax
insert form. ISBN 1 899377 03 4
SKELETON - John Newling
28pp softback (7 b&w). Documentation of site-specific installation in a
church using the residue of 80,000 template sheets of holy wafer. Interview
with artist and notes on investigating site. ISBN 1 899377 02 6
TRACE ELEMENTS. WORKS FROM 1989 - 1995 - Stefan Gec
42pp softback (10 col /52  b&w). Photographs and descriptions of fourteen
of Gec's installation and performance projects. Excerpts from the artist's
Chernobyl diary. Text by Greg Hilty. ISBN 1 899377 05 0
SOVEREIGN - Philip Napier
Videotape (12 minutes). Napier uses dental x-rays and bus destination signs
as a metaphor for a city, contrasting social differences between Belfast
(Ireland) and Vancouver (Canada).
TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR by Nhan Nguyen
Videotape (20 minutes). A video documentary by Paul Wong of the
installation of artist Nhan Nguyen's massive 100' x 15' mural "Temple of My
Familiar" in Belfast.
THE BIRTH CAUL - Alan Moore, David J & Tim Perkins
Compact disc (61 minutes). Live recording of monologue/multi-media event by
comic book writer Alan Moore (From Hell and the Watchmen), musician David J
(Bauhaus) and composer Tim Perkins.
CRASH SUBJECTIVITY -  Lloyd Gibson
50pp softback (1 col / 22 b&w). Contextual texts, historical archival
footage and documentation of site-specific sculpture presented in
Newcastle, Belfast and Dublin. ISBN 1 899377 04 2
FRAGMENS SUR LES INSTITUTIONS RPUBLICAINES IV - Shane Cullen
26pp (text only). Text by Jenny Haughton on Cullen's painted texts of the
"comms" produced by Irish hunger strikers with a history of the Tyneside
Irish community by John Corcoran. ISBN 1 899377 09 3
MANUAL II - Gregory Green
80pp softback (8 colour plates, 50 b/w).Text and documentation of Green's
incendiary devices, missiles and viral works from 1986 to present.
Interview by Benjamin Weil. Text by Maureen Sherlock. ISBN 1 899377 08 5
LOCUS+ 1993 - 1996
120pp (135 b&w). Anthology of 28 artist's projects (including some of the
above). Artist's statements, contextual texts, extensive photographic
documentation. Foreword by Stuart Morgan. ISBN 899377 06 9

NOTE: available June 1997:
MORPHALLAXIS - Cornelia Hesse-Honegger.
Extensive colour reproductions of aquarelles of mutating insects collected
from the perimeters of nuclear power stations. Softback. 1 899377 07 7
JAZZ SLAVE SHIPS - Jan Wade & Vanessa Richards.
Enhanced CD. Live recording of spoken performance monologues + video sections.

MULTIPLES
BUOY - Stefan Gec
Limited edition maquette: 1:10 scale model of Buoy (a Class Mark IV fully
operational ocean-going buoy, constructed from metal plate salvaged from
Soviet Whisky Class submarines). Supplied with wooden base and perspex
case.
GREGNIK - Gregory Green
Limited edition maquette: 1:3 scale model of Gregnik (a fully operational
prototype communications satellite, modelled on the former USSR's Sputnik
programme). Supplied with wooden base and perspex case.

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Locus+ is an arts organisation based Newcastle upon Tyne, England that
develops new strategies with visual artists for different contexts and
across formats.

Jon Bewley or Simon Herbert
Locus+
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31 - 39 High Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1EW UK
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