Archive for October, 2008

Concrete and Glass press

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Press items for the Heart of Glass show:

Guardian video - Editors pick

“Concrete and Glass festival: Tornado hits east London

Alistair McClymont talks about how he created his artwork, Limitation of Logic and Absence of Certainty, a tornado of water vapour, in the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall, as part of an inaugural music and art festival in east London”

Guardian - Safe cash refuge in art: East End exhibition attracts investors

“In a dusty anteroom in the basement of Shoreditch town hall yesterday, there was a tornado blowing. As a spiral of water vapour curled up to the ceiling like a corkscrew cloud, Alistair McClymont looked on proudly.

“I’ve spent the best part of a year working out how to make this,” he said, fiddling with his cloud-making machine until it produced a funnel that was almost as tall as him.

This piece of meteorological magic is an artwork, which McClymont, a Royal Academy of Art-trained sculptor, calls The Limitations of Logic and Absence of Absolute Certainty.

It is one of the most delightful attractions at Concrete and Glass, an art and music festival that opened in east London yesterday.”

Guardian - In pictures

Time Out - Concrete and Glass: art preview

“Thirty artists selected from open submission show previously unseen work in all media, in the dark and cavernous, bare-brick basement space of Shoreditch Town Hall. Among the suitably atmospheric offerings are Alistair McClymont’s indoor tornado of water vapour…”

Concrete and Glass

Friday, October 3rd, 2008