Not many contemporary art exhibitions make you want to curl up in a cardigan and read Keats; fewer still make your heart sing at the prospect of summer's end. But these two solo shows by new romantics Dean and Eliasson - a natural pairing if ever there was - both celebrate the meditative calm of staring out to sea while revelling in gentle, autumnal melancholy.
The sea is the link here. Dean, pipped at the post for last year's Turner Prize, is showing three large blackboard drawings which take their title from the opening stage direction of The Tempest: "The Sea, with a Ship; afterwards an Island." In her work to date she has shown something of an obsession with the sea's drama and grandeur.
Eliasson, a young Icelandic installation artist currently attracting much international attention for his work, has a similarly maritime theme to his equally wordily titled work: "Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned." In the largest gallery, two vast, silently revolving metallic lanterns beam bands of intense white light around the walls.
While there are other connotations, not least those of surveillance and searchlights given the title, the clearest reference is to lighthouses on the border between land and wild, rocky sea.
Both play on the timelessness of oceans. Dean uses the most impermanent of materials (the sea would soon wash away her chalky lines) in these storyboard-like drawings, with textual notes surrounding the sea, the ship and the island; fragments of language pitched against the might of nature.
Eliasson is rather more of a neuromantic despite being at the same time an out and out sensualist. His work has a brainy, clinical edge to it even as it explores beauty and nature with obvious relish and a child-like enthusiasm. A camera obscura brings the outside inside, turning the busy road and building site beyond upside down and into a thing of wonder, and a mini-weather station has been set up with all manner of gadgets used for measuring the world around us. These highlight in rather didactic fashion what the main work hints at - a concern with the borderline between subject and object, the mechanics of seeing and the ways in which vision is shaped by where you are looking from.
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