{"id":1372,"date":"2010-01-03T19:13:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T18:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:17:13","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end-beaconsfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/the-beginning-of-the-end-beaconsfield\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning of the End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/bote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beaconsfield, London\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/beaconsfield.ltd.uk\/projects\/phase2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192<\/a><br \/>\n24 Nov 2010 &#8211; 27 Feb 2011<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>bibliography:<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Siderfin, &#8216;Mark Dean: The Beginning of The End?&#8217;, catalogue essay, 2010<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=2202\/#artforum\">Rachel Withers, \u2018Mark Dean\u2019, <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=2202#artforum\">Artforum, April 2011<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=2202\/#art-monthly\">Eliza Williams, \u2018Mark Dean\u2019, Art Monthly no 343, February 2011<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=2202\/#time-out\">Helen Sumpter, \u2018Mark Dean\u2019, Time Out no 2108, January 13-19 2011<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/ace-interview\/\">Paul Bayley, interview with\u00a0Mark Dean,\u00a0Art &amp; Christianity Journal,\u00a0No 67, Autumn 2011<\/a><br \/>\nJaguar Shoes Collective\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaguarshoes.com\/mark-deans-the-beginning-of-the-end-at-beaconsfield-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192<\/a><br \/>\nInscape\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/walktofreeartlondon.blogspot.co.uk\/2010\/11\/christian-disco-terminator-by-mark-dean.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2192<\/a><br \/>\nMargaret Garlake (ed), &#8216;Beaconsfield: Chronic Epoch&#8217;, Black Dog Publishing, London, 2015, ISBN: 9781908966575<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 1px; background: #333333; font-size: 0;\">&#8211;<\/div>\n<p>exhibited works:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Love-Missile-7vs12-72dpi-2-525x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-missile-projection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/131293935?autopause=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"520\" height=\"389\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=901\">Love Missile (7\u2033 vs 12\u2033)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-919\" src=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/open-your-eyes-525x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/130925443?autoplay=0&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"520\" height=\"393\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=897\">Open Your Eyes (Syd\/Vicious)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-893\" src=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christian-Disco-Terminator1-525x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/130925441?autoplay=0&amp;loop=1&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=892\">Christian Disco (Terminator)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"compact_audio_player_wrapper\"><div class=\"sc_player_container1\"><input type=\"button\" id=\"btnplay_69df2aeeb3a7d8.08247018\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69df2aeeb3a7d8.08247018','https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/audio\/themenwhofelltoearthLRdemo.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69df2aeeb3a7d8.08247018');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69df2aeeb3a7d8.08247018\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69df2aeeb3a7d8.08247018','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69df2aeeb3a7d8.08247018');\" \/><div id=\"sm2-container\"><!-- flash movie ends up here --><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=899\">The Men Who Fell To Earth<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Retrospective Jukebox (1992-2010)<br \/>\n<\/strong>including:<br \/>\n01 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=152\">Love Love Love<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n02 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=53\">Nothing To Fear (The American Friend +-12)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n03 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=143\">Nothing To Worry About (Easy Rider\/Frenzy -3)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n04 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=141\">What Kind Of Fear? (Alice in den Stadten x 4)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n05 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=138\">Go Together (The Wild One x 2 \u2013 17)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n06 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=136\">I Didn\u2019t Invent It (Lilith \u2013 Beatty x 16 + 1\/2)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n07 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=34\">Goin\u2019 Back (The Birds\/The Byrds x 32 + 1)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n08 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=132\">Jane\/Fonda (Barbarella\/Klute)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n09 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=130\">Scorpio Rising 2 (The Gospel according to Matthew\/Hells Angels on Wheels)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n10 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=128\">Picture In Picture (TyhaerPGincatiurroeDoffoDeorruitacniGPreahyT)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n11 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=126\">Untitled (Grace)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n12 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=120\">Untitled (My Way Home + -, resting pulse)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n13 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=110\">I Can\u2019t See (Vertigo)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n14 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=4666\">Ascension (nothing\/Something Good)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n15 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=109\">Universal (Turing Machine)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n16 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=107\">No. Turing (FRS.jpg\/0-9.psd)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n17 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=104\">Untitled (Inverted Frenzy)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n18 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=103\">Untitled (Twisted Motorcycle Gang)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n19 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=671\">When I Was A Child\u2026<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n20 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=98\">Greta Garbo (1905-1990)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n21 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=96\">The Return of Jackie &amp; Judy (+ Joey)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n22 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=77\">Teenager (Moondogs)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n23 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=94\">Insert Coin (Nico)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n24 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=90\">Man(Son)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n25 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=68\">Police &amp; Thieves (Version)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n26 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=72\">Crimson &amp; Clover (Version)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n27 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=66\">Ten Years x 7 (5 x 50% \u2026 400 x 4000%)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n28 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=63\">Bad Brain (Sire)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n29 <a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/the-band\/\"><strong>The Band (Vox)<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n30 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=43\">Masochistic Opposite (Intro)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n31 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=43\">Justice Not Vengeance (Outro)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n32 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=18\">Darker Block (1 Thess 5:1-11)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n33 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=16\">Ur-philosophy (combining form)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n34 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=309\">Unorthodox (W\/E)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n35 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=478\">How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (1 Cor. 11.23-26)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n36 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=856\">Carrie (On)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>gallery information:<\/p>\n<p>Having spent the 80\u2019s in a post-punk wilderness, Mark Dean was catapulted into the eye of the art world in the early 90&#8217;s with his first video work Love Love Love. This piece set the pace for a body of distinctive work that was characterised by the use of appropriated clips \u2013 images often lacerated from feature films and sound re-mixed from pop music \u2013 and which focussed on the most fundamental aspects of the human condition. In recent years the emphasis on appropriated imagery has given way to the artist also taking up position behind the camera. Running across the Beaconsfield site in all three exhibition spaces, this current &#8220;Phase&#8221; exhibition, The Beginning of the End, offers a pause for mid-career reflection upon all aspects of the journey within Mark Dean&#8217;s oeuvre.<\/p>\n<p>The installation <a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=901\">Love Missile (7&#8243; vs 12&#8243;)<\/a>, 2010, in Upper Gallery 1, is based on two versions of Sigue Sigue Sputnik\u2019s electro-punk debut single, played simultaneously from opposite speakers. As the two vinyl recordings loop, they move in and out of synch, accompanied by two superimposed video images of a figure at dusk \u2013 one looping for the duration of the 7\u201d disc, the other synched to the 12\u201d. The projected golden light on the water surrounding the ambiguous figure contrasts with the cold cathode light emanating from two video monitors, one showing a 7\u201d picture disc, the other a 12\u201d (rotating at 7 and 12 second intervals respectively.) The images on these discs are a series of cruise missiles being fired from ships, each tilted so that the missile is directed straight upwards, in accordance with the instruction of the lyrics: \u201cUS bombs cruising overhead\u2026 there goes my love, rocket-red\u2026 multi-millions still unfed\u2026 shoot it up\u2026.\u201d The redirection of these weapons (which theoretically means they would never hit their targets) requires a total realignment of the rest of the world; a new horizon is registered by a white line crossing the vertical missiles.<\/p>\n<p>In Arch Gallery 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=892\">Christian Disco (Terminator)<\/a>, 2010 takes a three second clip from the Terminator\u2019s point-of-view shot of the dance floor, progressively time-shifting this loop, and superimposing the results whilst cycling through the colour spectrum. The resulting video image is synced to the music from the end credits of the original movie, which is in turn accompanied by two looped audio recordings (\u201cHere ends the first\/second lesson\u201d) taken from the ends of Bible readings at Wells Cathedral on Holocaust Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>These complementary, large-scale works are informed by two foyer works: <a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=897\">Open Your Eyes (Syd\/Vicious)<\/a>, 2010 montages a slowed down edit of Syd Barrett\u2019s song \u2018Two of a Kind\u2019 with an almost imperceptibly moving documentary film of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, apparently in a liminal space between life and death. The theme of flawed mortality is picked up in the audio piece <a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=899\">The Men Who Fell to Earth<\/a>, 2010, at the entrance to the exhibition which simultaneously loops two instances of the same music from Nicolas Roeg\u2019s sci- fi classic, taken from earlier and later sections of the film\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors can view the range of Mark Dean\u2019s art works made over the past twenty years, through personal selection (<a href=\"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/?p=1372#retrospective-jukebox\">Retrospective Jukebox<\/a>, 1992-2010, Canteen Gallery 2). The archive includes the works Dean made for a number of Beaconsfield projects including Experimental Religion, 2008, Crimson &amp; Clover (Version), Rag Doll (Version) and Police &amp; Thieves (Version), all 2005 and Picture In Picture (TyhaerPGincatiurroeDoffoDeorruitacniGPreahyT), 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Dean received a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists in 2009, and in July 2010 was ordained in the Church of England. He states: \u2018I am interested in the relation of contemporary art and religion, but do not recognise any shared language with which to discuss this \u2013 at least, not at the level that either discipline requires. I might be wrong, of course. In any case, my work is driven by this question.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is the second in the Beaconsfield series Phase, which turns the spotlight on mid-career artists with whom the organisation has a significant relationship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beaconsfield, London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[102,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-selected-exhibitions","category-solo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24498,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/24498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}