....Olivia Brown: Reggies Roller Palace..Olivia Brown: Palas Troed-Rolio Reggie....
....17 September – 6 November 2011..17 Medi – 6 Tachwedd 2011....
....Gallery 1 & 2..Oriel 1 & 2....
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Olivia Brown’s installation is an immersive experience; precisely planned and executed, with an awesome attention to detail. She has created a total environment that asks us to look again at the popular culture that wraps around us, and at how we relate to our four-legged companions. Is Reggie’s Roller Palace the direct descendant of the 20s and 30s dance marathons, or the spate of 1970s US roller disco films? Perhaps. There are clear references here to the secret pleasures we take in competitors’ fortunes and misfortunes as in The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, and Crufts Dog Show, and the styling of her installation certainly chimes with the recent surge of interest in vintage artefacts, lifestyle and memorabilia. Olivia has produced an environment populated with unique personalities, strong or hapless individuals caught up in a situation where her visual gags stop short of slapstick, moderated by the tensions and undercurrents of the competition format.
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Mae gosodwaith Olivia Brown yn brofiad i ymgolli ynddo; wedi ei gynllunio a’i osod yn fanwl, gyda sylw rhyfeddol i bob manylun, mae wedi creu cyfanwaith llwyr sy’n gofyn i ni ystyried y diwylliant poblogaidd sy’ mhobman o’n cwmpas, â’n perthynas gyda’n cyfeillion pedair coes. A yw Palas Troed-Rolio Reggie yn ddisgynydd uniongyrchol o farathonau dawns y 20au ar 30au, neu’r fflyd o ffilmiau rolio-disgo o’r UD yn y 70au? Efallai. Mae cyfeiriadau amlwg yma i’r pleser euog byddwn yn ei gael o lwc neu anlwc cystadleuwyr mewn sioeau megis The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent neu Sioe Gwˆ n Crufts, a mae arddull y gosodwaith yn sicr yn taro tant gyda’r cynnydd mewn diddordeb sydd mewn arteffactau, pethau cofiadwy a ffordd o fyw sydd â blas o’r hen ffasiwn. Mae Olivia wedi creu awyrgylch sy’n llawn cymeriadau unigryw, unigolion cryf neu druenus wedi eu dal mewn sefyllfa lle mae’n atal ei chellweirio gweledol rhag troi’n gomedi slapstic, wedi ei gymedroli gan densiynau a ‘chythraul canu’ y fformat gystadleuol.
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