Jane Sanders ART Agent 
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Paul Cullen Meeting Roland Barthes Card table, chair, globes, clamps, plastic fruit, wood, electric motor etc. Installed size variable 2005. Photographed in the exhibition "NatureCulture" at 40 George Street, 2005/2006 In 1964 Roland Barthes wrote the “Elements of Semiology”. Semiology is a branch of linguistics concerned with signs and symbols. Paul notes, “My title and look of 'Meeting Roland Barthes' derives from a visit to the Jardin Botanique in Bayonne in France last year. Barthes grew up in Bayonne and considered it home.” Like Roland Barthes’ theories Paul Cullen says, “(his) works are representational in the sense that models or diagrams are." "In working in a diagrammatic or model-like manner these sculptures don’t operate within an 'agreed upon' system of interpretation. Models model by looking like the things that they refer to and diagrams represent but don’t look like the things they refer us to." "In using existing objects to make these sculptures I am linking the works into this existing network of meanings and uses linked to the objects.” E-mail for further information |
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