Parodos in the project space at GT gallery

Parodos GTG

Colin Darke



Opening 6pm – 8pm

4th – 20 November 2010

Project Space



About the Exhibition

Parodos GTG is the first showing of Colin Darke’s most recent series of paintings, Parodos, along with

accompanying animations of its installation in the gallery space.



The work, consisting of sixty paintings and two animations, reproduces a short film of the delivery of

a speech by Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. It refers implicitly to Sophocles’ play Antigone

and Lenin’s looped back-and-forth motion as he addresses his audience echoes the movement of the

Greek chorus as it expresses the moral arguments of the drama.



In formal terms, the piece also references the work of Bertolt Brecht, in which “Film in its own right can

be used in the epic theatre as a kind of optical chorus.”



About the Artist

Colin Darke, originally from London, is based in Belfast. He studied at Goldsmiths College from 1977 to

1980 and is currently completing his PhD at the University of Ulster.



He has shown widely, including solo shows in Dublin, Derry, London and Toronto. Group shows include

Manifesta 3 (2000), Venice Biennale (2003), Busan Biennale (South Korea, 2004) and God and Goods

(Villa Manin, Italy, 2008).



About the Gallery

From its beginnings, in 1998, in a former linen mill on a contested ‘peace line’ in North Belfast, Golden Thread

Gallery has delivered annual programmes of exhibitions and activities designed to make a real contribution

to the visual arts and wider communities in Northern Ireland.

Now located in Belfast’s developing ‘sailor-town’ area, on the edge of the city centre, Golden Thread Gallery

has grown a unique position in the region by simultaneously developing programs of contemporary art that

reach local and international audiences.

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exhibitions and activities, that provide accessible and thought provoking opportunities to engage with

aspects of contemporary artistic practice.



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