FALL by Adrian Scrivener
​7th October - 2nd November, 1991
The Diorama Arts Centre
14 Peto Place, London

'The British born artist Adrian Scrivener graduated in 1989 with an MA from the Art institute of Chicago. Contrary to a large number of young artists who work with "found objects", Scrivener bases his sculptures and installations on found materials. These are often mass-produced materials, which are carefully chosen for their lack of cultural or iconographic connotations, as the artist intends the work to be approached without the conditions imposed by previous knowledge.

At the Diorama, as in all his installations, the relationship between the chosen site, the form of the work, and the material is of a symbolic nature. The Diorama (a Victorian structure) was built as a site for the exhibition of light and sound environments which utilised the tailor-made circular space to install shifting panoramas. This popular form of public spectacle became redundant with the advent of the moving image, at which point the Diorama was adapted to a number of different uses,

In "Fall", the artist makes reference to the original function of the building by creating an environment which responds to the natural daylight conditions of the site. The installation is made in its entirety from lengths of gold paper, which as it cascades into the void, forms a gigantic bowl or vessel in the central drum at the Diorama.

The work may be viewed from the ground floor, almost entirely obscured, or from the balconies which rise up to the glass cuppola, ensuring that the installation is taken in as a journey through the building, rather than from a fixed perspective.
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The work is thus seen not as a confrontation, but as an extension to the suggestions offered by the building.

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​Adrian Scrivener