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Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann
In August 2006, Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann journeyed to the Shivering Sands Sea Fort, about seven miles of the Kent coastline. Originally used as gun forts to fight the Luftwaffe, the sea fort was revived as pirate radio stations in the 1960’s. At this time, during an incident in an Essex home, to do with an alle...gedly stolen radio transmitter, Reg Calvert, who ran “Radio City” from the sea fort was shot dead. His wife retrieved the transmitter, sailed to the sea fort and began to broadcast, as a memorial to her dead husband. The first record played was Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the night”. Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann visited the sea fort and played “Strangers in the night” at high volume into the open whilst drifting through the towers. Their film “Radio City” (2006) uses footage taken during this action.
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‘3 Amigos’ is a series of three life-size sculptures whose attire comprises of a ‘superhero’ cape and ‘detention style hood’. In comic books we see the superhero’s mask as a way to hide the protagonists only weakness, which is their everyday persona. It simultaneously exemplifies their extraordinary characteristics: th...e ability to change the world and fight against evil. Always in a battle with their two sides, the fictional character is at once a superhero as much as they are a prisoner in many respects.
The figures in the ‘3 Amigos’, are modelled on Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann themselves and unlike the superhero the hood of their costume hides not only their identity but also their senses. The ‘detention-style’ covering typifies the controversial methods we are accustomed to seeing as dealing with terrorist violence. In contrast with the hero that ‘saves the day’, ‘3 Amigos’ demonstrates the futility with fighting something impossible, or even the concept of a ‘war on something’ in general. The hood ultimately affirms the symbol of the mask and we find ourselves looking at a hidden figure whose power lies in their actions and protests and which becomes the weight behind the message.Read more
The figures in the ‘3 Amigos’, are modelled on Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann themselves and unlike the superhero the hood of their costume hides not only their identity but also their senses. The ‘detention-style’ covering typifies the controversial methods we are accustomed to seeing as dealing with terrorist violence. In contrast with the hero that ‘saves the day’, ‘3 Amigos’ demonstrates the futility with fighting something impossible, or even the concept of a ‘war on something’ in general. The hood ultimately affirms the symbol of the mask and we find ourselves looking at a hidden figure whose power lies in their actions and protests and which becomes the weight behind the message.Read more
We would like to invite you to the opening of "Take Hope", an exhibition by artist group Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann at the Take Courage Gallery in New Cross, London...
