10 November - 7 December 2006

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New video installation by the multi-disciplinary artist Alexander Costello. Get It Right spans differing environments, both globally and locally from a snow-covered field in Val D’Aosta, Italy, to site-specific footage of IMT’s gallery interior. Costello presents ways of understanding the interaction between people, places, objects, and activities, combining improvisation with homage and satire of 20th century art practices. Using techniques found in photography, painting, film and performance Costello describes a sensitive and resolutely existential exploration of the practice of documenting place and activity.

In addition to the main piece the exhibition included Polaroid 2005 and Polaroid 2006. Both works present similar documents of a room in Costello’s house, in London and Milan respectively. Images appearing in front of the camera gradually reveal posters, books, notes, photographs and influences from Bill Hicks to Bruce Mclean.

Since graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2001, Costello has exhibited both individually and in collaboration under the pseudonym ‘Bruce & Joan’ with fellow Slade graduate Sarah Turner, attempting to tackle an unrealised collaboration between Bruce McLean and Joan Jonas. He has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad including a solo exhibition in T1+2 Artspace London, a solo project at the Swiss Institute, New York, and a group exhibition at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He lives and works in Milan.

Alexander Costello - Get It Right was supported by the Arts Council England, Awards For All and GO.

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