The first ever exhibition of works of art created by artists who have no “mind’s eye” casts new light on the creative brain.
Extreme Imagination: inside the mind’s eye features works by people who cannot visualise, alongside works by those who have particularly vivid mental imagery.
This
is the catalogue for ‘Extreme Imagination: inside the mind’s eye’, an art
exhibition produced by the Eye’s Mind research team at The University of Exeter
College of Medicine and Health, curated by Susan Aldworth and Matthew
MacKisack.
Extreme Imagination: inside the mind’s eye presents their artwork, inviting us to consider the impact of these phenomena on the creative process. How can someone make anything without being able to imagine what they want it to look like? Is there a distinctly hyperphantasic kind of art?
Aphantasia and its opposite teach us about human diversity: the easily-missed, potentially startling differences between individuals’ inner lives. The work of the participating artists – and designers, architects, and writers – demonstrates the diversity of means by which things come to be made, challenging long-held beliefs about what it means to be ‘creative’.
Find interviews with participating artists
here.
The catalogue is divided in two halves in what I would describe as a 'double-ender' - the
catalogue can be read from either side – essays on the art, science and
philosophy of ‘extreme imagination’ one way; turn it over and you see
artist interviews preceding their work on the other.
Size of the publication is 190x115mm, portrait and is perfect bound. The 108pp text is printed on Chromolux 1 sided 120gsm from
Zanders in Germany. Chromolux is a
cast coated paper, which is gloss one side and uncoated reverse. This publication has been collated in such a way that the gloss coated is one side facing an uncoated side as you can see in the image below:
The uncoated side is matt and tactile as you can see below...
Gloss spread on left, uncoated on right...
reading the other way, uncoated on left, gloss spread on right...
The cover is printed on the black cover material from that other, Hull based, paper merchant! Below shows the very neat, perfect binding.
Extreme Imagination: inside the mind’s eye ran at the Tramway in Glasgow, from January to March and is now at the
Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, until the 2nd of June.
Catalogue concept and design is by Valle Walkley. Print is by Push.
http://sites.exeter.ac.uk/eyesmind/2018/12/12/extreme-imagination-inside-the-minds-eye/
https://en-gb.facebook.com/thevisualimagination/
http://www.vallewalkley.com/
http://www.push-print.com/
Posted by Justin Hobson 16.04.2019
This pioneering special display at the V&A provides insight into the ongoing research into the provenance – or history of ownership – of the Gilbert Collection. In many cases it is unclear who owned these pieces before they were acquired by Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert. This uncertainty can be alarming: between 1933 and 1945 Jewish people in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe had their possessions systematically taken from them. Art collections were confiscated, sold, scattered or destroyed by the Nazis. Despite significant efforts after the Second World War by the Allies and European governments, many of these objects were never returned to their rightful owners. Instead, many objects ended up in public and private collections, often acquired without knowledge of their background, or whose hands they had passed through. 
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