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Art of Fugue

Monday 8 July 2002, 8PM
The Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London

INTRODUCTION

In the Summer of 1999, Elizabeth Harington joined over twenty composers in residence at the Storm King Music Festival, for an exhibit of her works on J.S. Bach’s ‘The Well Tempered Clavier’ and a recital and lecture demonstration with renowned harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper. As a result, the importance of combining live exhibitions of her works on paper with performances of Bach’s musical repertoire became the focus of an ongoing initiative. In 2001, Ms. Harington completed her most recent body of work on The Art of Fugue. As ‘The Well Tempered Clavier’ represents a varied and linear exploration of Bach’s work, ‘The Art of Fugue’ takes the viewer from the painterly approach of the earlier series on a journey from darkness to light, from death to regeneration, and from sound to silence. In ‘The Art of Fugue’ the Contrapunctus variations develop on a single theme. As interpreted by Ms. Harington, ‘The Art of Fugue’ unfolds in fourteen sculpted works on paper moving on a horizontal plane. These are joined by fourteen 28x31 inch etchings on a vertical, serial, plane.