The Office gallery presents a proposal by the Scottish artist and poet Robert Montgomery entitled: ALL KINGDOMS SMASHED AND BURIED IN THE SKY. It concerns six of Montgomery’s latest works, while two of the works have been created site especially for the Office exhibition, considering the fact that Kleanthi Christophides street, where the Office is located, shares borders with the buffer zone and eventually gets interrupted by it.
Montgomery’s work begins with poetic text, which he writes himself and then makes sculptural, using forms that normally apply to other species and forms of speech but not necessarily to poetry. – So a text may be presented under the form of an advertising poster, a billboard, at times illuminated at night or burned against the dusk sky.
Robert Montgomery’s works are simple and direct while complex and unpredictable. Whether they take place in public or private spaces, they do not lose their lyricism and their subversive character while being part of a modern proposal about how the city’s landscape can be poetic, but also about how poetry itself can be a part of urban everyday life.
Opening + fire poem: Thursday 18 December, 20:00
Duration: 18 December – 17 January
Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 – 20:00
The Office gallery, Kleanthi Christophides 32, Nicosia within the Walls
+35799848495, press@theofficegallery.com
