{"id":3882,"date":"2017-10-05T07:36:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2017-10-05T07:36:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:36:21","slug":"archive-blues-leeds-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hondartzafraga.com\/2017\/10\/05\/archive-blues-leeds-art-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive Blues, Leeds Art Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hondartza Fraga: Archive Blues<\/strong><\/em>
\nAs part of the Shelter From The Storm John Sell Cotman<\/em> exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery<\/p>\n

Exhibition dates: 13th October 2017 – 21st January 2018
\nPreview night Thursday October 12th<\/p>\n

Archive Blues<\/strong><\/em> is a new body of work created by artist Hondartza Fraga in response to Leeds Art Gallery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new exhibition of John Sell Cotman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s works and Sydney Decimus Kitson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s archive. <\/p>\n

The British artist John Sell Cotman (1782\u00e2\u20ac\u201c1842) was one of the most original and important watercolour painters of the 19th century. Today, he is recognised for his remarkable series of watercolours depicting Yorkshire \u00e2\u20ac\u201c his Greta<\/em> series \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as well as for his sensitivity to the societal changes and growing brutality that he witnessed during his lifetime. The prominent architect Sydney Decimus Kitson devoted his retirement to collecting drawings by Cotman and researching the artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life and work. <\/p>\n

Artist-in-residence Hondartza Fraga has created a series of new works in response to the Cotman collection and Kitson archive. Fascinated by the relationship between the original objects and the tools used to care for them, Fraga has sought to reveal and make visible the hidden workings of both an archive and a collection. In her own words Fraga has sought to create \u00e2\u20ac\u02dca visual eulogy to the archival process itself, its instruments and also its melancholy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n

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\n(Above)
\nArchive Blues: Covers<\/em>, watercolour on paper, 42 x 59 cm, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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