A Post Apocalyptic Manchester
Thursday 8th Dec
Manchester Apocalypse by artist and photographer James Chadderton is the newest exhibition at Incognito.
Featuring many of Manchester's iconic buildings and landmarks, the show is a haunting, unnerving and photorealistic collection of images created by a fusion of traditional painting techniques, photography and new media.
“Trying to maintain a degree of realism was essential as I wanted the audience to be absorbed into that reality” explains Chadderton. “The focus was to provide images of iconic areas of Manchester such as Urbis and The Palace Theatre in a derelict and eroded state as if involved in an apocalyptic event that somehow left the city lifeless and dissolving over potentially hundreds of years.”
Inspired by conceptual art from films and games such as Fallout, Blade Runner, Threads, 28 Days Later and Terminator, the collection contains the same sense of suspended humanity that flows as an undercurrent through his selection of inspirational media. It’s this sense of suspension that leads the artist to describe the compositions as “human devoid wastelands where the buildings have been left to decay.”
Framed and signed first edition prints are available from £350. Smaller prints are available at £135 and £20.
Incognito is a boutique gift and analogue photography store in Stevenson's Square in the heart of Manchester's Northern Quarter. The basement gallery space utilizes a former walk in safe and will be holding further events throughout 2012.