SINGULARITY
Artworks, Dollworks and She’Baaä
Setting: Royal College of Art | Entrance Gallery | Kensington Gore | London SW7 2EU
Preview | October 22nd 2009 | 18.00 - 21.00 | October 23rd - 26th 2009 | 10.00 - 18.00
At the time of his death, Patric Old was an AHRC funded DPhil candidate at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Future of Humanity Institute, Advisor: Prof Martin Kemp. Project title: “Visualising the New Meaning of Being Human”.
Patric’s contribution to research on Human Enhancement challenged the generally accepted interpretation of ”Singularity”, with his own discovery of “Oneness” expressed in sometimes base, explicit, physical visual works informed by his privileged insight as an fine artist having been on the inside of the fashion & beauty publishing and fashion doll industries.
She’Baa™, the iconic, dark but beautiful character invented by Patric Old, whose Eastern Fairy-Tale metaphorically embodies commercial possibility that advances in life science are enabling; will be introduced to the London public for the first time.
She’Baa™ is currently being realised by Anne Zielinski-Old in collaboration with Eleanor Crook Waxworks. The newborn, alluring embryonic creature is being created as an industrialised anatomical wax sculpture.
British born, Patric was the contemporary hybrid of Hans Bellmer and Egon Schiele, leaving behind, aside from his contribution to the evolvement of the famous Barbie and Classic Sindy fashion dolls, an important, swiftly emerging parallel body of intimate figurative drawings, paintings, photography, digital works and dark novel that form the basis of his vision for post-humanism.
Anders Sanberg, Futurist and postdoctoral research fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford has confirmed he will contribute an essay on the subject of Beauty in the post human context to the exhibition.
Anne Zielinski-Old
Curator & Executor
Tel: +44 1444 414045
Email: annevon@gmail.com
Patric Old, M.Des (RCA) Fashion 1952-2008