Julie Roberts belongs to the new generation of artists. She recently graduated from the Glasgow School of Art and still lives and works in Scotland. Her works csan be described „object based” or new conceptual. Roberts’ paintings make reference to domestic and institutional systems. Each painting consists of a monochrome ground upon which is usually painted in a realistic manner an isolated object located centrally on the canvas. Roberts sees her relationship to the objects she depicts in her paintings very much in terms of sculpture, and the sense of purity in their design and construction as manifestations of function. Here in a sense the artist has a range of possible „ready-mades”.
Douglas Gordon was born in 1966. After his studies at the Glasgow School of Art he took the Master Degree at the Slade School of Art in London. His project, „24 Hours of Psycho” was exhibited for the first time in Glasgow and Berlin in 1993. This videoinstallation consists of a big screen and a projector which shows the famous Hitchcock film „Psycho” in slow motion, over a period of a day. This work treats the general problem of time as a conflict of speed and slowness. With the help of this „extended horror vision” the visitor can mediate on the real, inner and fictive experience of time.
The main point of interest in the work of Tracy Mackenna is the reception of art by the viwer. Her „discourse of art beyond traditional limitation” a constant movement „towards self-transcendence, towards what is beyond”.
Mackenna’s work has been influenced by the theories of Bergson who thinks that all the things in te material world are in a constant state of change. The city maps of sandblasted glass, exhibited in the Ludwig Múzeum can be characterised as a game between tradition and modern concepts, between the steady form of subjects and their transition.
