Art
Pantheon
Bristol-based artists Robin Edwards and Andrew Wilson present imagined histories of unknown
realms through paintings, print and text.
Pantheon refers to the pre-Christian temple (113-125 AD) that housed all the collective gods of the
Roman pagan belief system. The word has since been adopted to describe all the deities of a given religion or an important group of people. Philip Guston chose this term as the title of his painting (1973), as he coalesced the Pantheon of his influences from the renaissance to the 20th century.
Edwards and Wilson employ this term as it allows them to directly reference and engage with the classical mythology.
However, they also wish to play with the linguistic heritage of this term by creating their own imagined temple within the space, where the hierarchy is subverted as the viewer will find the absurd and surreal next to the lofty and mythic.
This exhibition will be a collective pantheon of both artists, as their works begin conceptually leaping
from Minoan culture and Ovid’s metamorphosis to Dante’s Divine Comedy, 20th century modernist
prose and Monty Python.
March 15-30, Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Kosar Contemporary
4 Little Paradise, Bedminster, BS3 4DD. For more info, visit www.kosarcontemporary.com/what-s-on
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