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Richard T. Walker
Robin Lambert
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bilton contemporary art presents
Service: Dinner for Strangers Interactive Participatory Artwork: January 10 - February 6, 2009 Artist Robin Lambert
RECEPTION: FEBRUARY 6, 7 - 9 p.m. (artist in attendance)
PRESS RELEASE
From January 10 through February 6, Red Deer’s bilton contemporary art will host Service: Dinner for Strangers, a gallery installation that at its most basic, a series of potlucks held in the gallery over the course of one month.
This exhibition is the latest of artist Robin Lambert’s continuing research into the crossing of contemporary visual arts, craft culture, the handmade object, and art as service. At the heart of the exhibition, Lambert is sharing a diversity of visual and cultural ideas through the hosting of a potluck. Eating together and sharing food is an intimate experience through which people can learn about each other, about new ideas, and, in this case, about art, craft and the community in which we live.The gallery exhibition includes a simple display of 21 ceramic dinner sets made by three different ceramic artists - Robin Dupont, Maggie Finlayson and Candice Ring. Over the course of the exhibition the gallery will host three potluck dinners for seven strangers from Red Deer and area and each dinner will be eaten off a different set of dishes from the gallery display.
Service: Dinner for Strangers involves direct interaction between the audience and artist, transforming the gallery into a space for the exploration, sharing and meeting our neighbours. The exhibition challenges traditional relations between artist and audience as well as audience and art, while at the same time, examining the role of art objects and the process of their creation.
In previous works Lambert has allowed gallery visitors to nap on couches and chairs he has provided to the gallery, read to people from the back of his van, left handmade books around the city landscape for passerbys to find and exchange letters for good deeds. Lambert believes that, in the continuing evolution of the definition of art we have reached the point where asking, "Is this Art?" is no longer a question leading anywhere because it is apparent that art can be and is anything the artist chooses to make it. For him, it has become important to make sincere attempts to develop a practice of social interaction with the possibility of poetic images.
Please visit the website www.robinlambert.ca email lambert.robin@gmail.com or Phone: (403) 872-6973 for more information