About the edition
Raydale Dower’s works are performative in nature, involving elements of live action, sound, time, space and theatre. In 2011 the artist created a work titled Piano Drop for Tramway in Glasgow, which recorded the live event of a piano being dropped from the ceiling. The resulting video installation was shown at Dundee Contemporary arts in the exhibition Continue Without Losing Consciousness and accompanied by a printed work from which this edition originates:
Piano Drop alludes to the auto-destructive movement which began in the visual arts with Gustav Metzger and was later adopted by musicians such as Pete Townshend and Jimi Hendrix. Dower’s version is a carefully composed act of creative destruction. Two enlarged film stills show the moment before a piano comes into view and then captures it just before it hits the ground and smashes. Graham Domke, Exhibitions Curator at DCA
| Year | 2015 |
| Edition of | 5 |
| Media | Diptych. Two digital pigment prints on Hahnemuhle PhotoRag paper |
| Dimensions | Each: 50.6 x 90.6cm (image size 50 x 90cm) |
| Signature | Signed, numbered and dated by artist |
About Raydale Dower
Raydale Dower (b. 1973, Aberdeen) is a Glasgow based musician and artist. He studied Sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee and Sound for the Moving Image from The Glasgow School of Art.
Recent exhibitions include: Continue Without Losing Consciousness, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2014, The Glasgow Weekend, Volksbühne Theatre, Berlin (2013); Piano Drop, Tramway, Glasgow (2011; On Memory and Chance, The Changing Room, Stirling (2011); Beethoven’s 5th(X8), Art Basel, Miami Beach, Miami (2010); Le Drapeau Noir, 2010 Glasgow International Festival; and The Associates, Dundee Contemporary Arts (2009). Dower co-founded the bands Uncle John & Whitelock (2001–2006) and Tut Vu Vu (2007–present).
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