'Call of the Void: Robin Megannity' now open at WORKPLACE until June 4th
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'Call of the Void: Robin Megannity' now open at WORKPLACE until June 4th
Robin Megannity, Detail of Signals Through the Rlames, 2023, Oil on linen. Photography by Tom Carter. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.



LONDON.- Workplace opened Call of the Void, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Manchester based artist Robin Megannity. The exhibition explores Megannity’s endeavour to hold paradoxical or contrary sentiments within his painting that connect the ubiquitous with the sublime.

L’appel du vide, is a French phrase which literally means “the call of the void,” and describes the widely experienced phenomena of the strong or compelling urge one might feel to jump or fall from a high place, such as from a tall building or precipitously soaring cliff. It is a vision of a dangerous action that appears like a flash across previously calm or disinterested thoughts exposing a shift, or psychological quiver, between the conscious and unconscious mind.

Megannity’s search for simultaneity within his painting finds parallels in such phenomena. Historical techniques and traditions of painting are appropriated and quoted in his work, and the pathos, melancholy and solemnity of Northern European still life paintings are interrupted by references to digital image making. Glitches and ruptures in the framing of his images connect the temporality of the historical source imagery with commonplace contemporary means of media manipulation. Similarly, the anodine and lifeless simulations of computer renderings or product advertising, are imbued with the historical weight and meaning of painting that pulls them out of the virtual and lends them authenticity. Megannity perpetually reframes and recontextualises his source imagery to create an internal dissonance or aberration that pushes his works beyond the seductive beauty of their rendering towards a potent assertion of ambivalent detachment.

Robin Megannity (b.1985, North-West, UK) is based in Greater Manchester, UK. He completed his MA in Painting at Manchester, School of Art in 2021 and received a BA in Fine Art at University of Wales Institute, Cardiff in 2007. Megannity has exhibited nationally and internationally, selected solo exhibitions include ferme la fenêtre, Kristian Day Gallery, London, UK (2021); Goes Without Saying, Bunker Gallery, Manchester, UK (2019); and Compression, Studios Gallery, New Mills, UK (2014). Selected Group exhibitions include Fayre Share Fayre, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2022); In Crystallized Time, Museum Of Museums, Seattle, USA (2021); ONE, Subsidiary Projects, San Mei Gallery, London, UK (2021); The Contact Layer, curated by Ian Gonczarow, Stewart Hall, Montreal, CA (2020); and Unfamiliar Handshake, The Function Suite, curated by Brian Mountford, London, UK (2020).










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