Exhibition - N.P.G. 17.02.2011 - 30.05.2011

National Portrait Gallery, London 

Hoppe Portraits - Society, Studio & Street

Tilly Losch (detail) by E.O. Hoppé, 1928
 

17 February – 30 May 2011

“The missing link in British photography between Frederick Evans and those contrasting moderns, Bill Brandt and Cecil Beaton”            (Mark Haworth-Booth, 2006)

E.O. Hoppé is one of the most important photographers of the first half of the twentieth century. Celebrated during his lifetime, much of Hoppé’s work has only recently been reassembled and this major survey will enable visitors to discover a forgotten master.

Featuring 150 works, The exhibition includes Hoppé’s strikingly modernist portraits of society figures and important personalities from the worlds of literature, politics and the arts, including George Bernard Shaw, Margot Fonteyn, Albert Einstein, Vita Sackville-West and members of the royal family.

These studio portraits will be shown alongside his fascinating photojournalist studies of everyday British people ranging from street musicians and circus performers to bus drivers and postmen, which capture the realities of day-to-day life between the wars.

Exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in collaboration with Curatorial Assistance / E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection www.eohoppe.com

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Modern British Sculpture - 22.01.11 - 07.04.2011

 

The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first exhibition for 30 years to examine British sculpture of the twentieth century. The show represents a unique view of the development of British sculpture, exploring what we mean by the terms British and sculpture by bringing the two together in a chronological series of strongly themed galleries, each making its own visual argument.

The exhibition takes a fresh approach, replacing the traditional survey with a provocative set of juxtapositions that challenges the viewer to make new connections and break the mould of old conceptions.

Key British works include: Alfred Gilbert Queen Victoria, Phillip King Genghis Khan, Jacob Epstein Adam, Barbara Hepworth Single Form, Leon Underwood Totem to the Artist, Henry Moore Festival Figure, Anthony Caro Early One Morning, Richard Long Chalk Line, Julian Opie W and Damien Hirst Let’s Eat Outdoors Today.

Through these and other works, the exhibition examines British sculpture's dialogue within a broader international context, highlighting the ways in which Britain’s links with its Empire, continental Europe and the United States have helped shape an art that at its best is truly international in scope and significance. 

The selection of works is not limited to the British Isles, but looks outward at Britain in the world including sculpture from Native American, Indian, and African traditions. These are represented by a series of significant loans from the British Museum and the V&A, which are shown alongside modern British sculptures from the period 1910-1930 to highlight the inquisitiveness of British artists when the Empire was at its peak and London was, almost literally, the centre of the world. The visitor is invited to make comparisons between these pieces and consider the dramatic effect that non-western techniques, iconography and cultural sensibility had on the development of British sculpture at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The exhibition is designed to be site-specific in relation to its own location at the Royal Academy in London. It shows how, for over 100 years, London and its museums have had a powerful appeal for sculptors, and how the Royal Academy itself has played a significant and controversial role in shaping modern British sculpture. To highlight the extent of the Royal Academy’s influence, the exhibition also features sculptures by three of its former presidents – Frederic Leighton, Charles Wheeler and Phillip King.

The exhibition provides a view onto this period of modern British sculpture without attempting to be comprehensive or definitive in its treatment of the subject. As such, it represents a point of view about the work of the period and seeks to highlight certain ways of looking at sculpture by thinking about its relationship with the wider world.

Exhibition in London - Opens 03.03.2011

OBLONG

PRESENTS PHOTOGRAPHY

3-23 MARCH 2011

Oblong Gallery presents the work of art photographers,

JH Engström, Laura Hynd, Michael Grieve and Tereza Zelenkova.

Four unique art photographers come together at Oblong, in London, for the first major showing of photography at the gallery. The works of Engström, Hynd, Grieve and Zelenkova are united by the subjective approach of the authors in their search for meaning in an existential world. Together they embrace the tragedy of dislocation and beauty of absurdity through work that is grounded in the sublime impossibility of the documentary genre. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to understand the sensibilities of four extraordinary art photographers.

JH Engström

Is a Swedish photographer of notable distinction. His works, Trying to Dance, Haunts, From Back Home and La Residence have been published by Journal, Max Strom and Steidl, and he has exhibited widely including Galerie Vu in Paris, Gun Gallery in Stockholm and at Arles Photofestival where his project, Wells, was curated by Nan Goldin. At Oblong, Engström is showing photographs from his distinguished series, Trying to Dance.

Laura Hynd

Was born in Scotland and is an accomplished photographer who is commissioned by prestigious, national and international magazines and publications. Her current work in progress, The Letting Go, is a significant departure from editorial concerns. With artistic expression, she depicts a deeply personal journey allowing chance to dictate the process, and in doing so explores her identity and her relationship to others. Much of the work is situated in the heart of the vibrant medina of Fez.

Michael Grieve

Is a British photographer. His portfolios are regularly published and reviewed in contemporary art photography journals and his last project, No Love Lost, has been exhibited at various galleries and festivals in Europe. His new, on going, body of work, The Foreigner, is photographed in Morocco. It is a fictional documentation of a real place that represents the unfathomable inability to connect with the substance of life.

Tereza Zelenkova

Is from the Czech Republic and is currently studying at the Royal College of Art. Her highly praised project, Supreme Vice, is a distinctively accomplished set of documentary visual metaphors inspired by the occult that studies the tension between the inabilities of science to provide satisfactory answers in a world where god is dead. Her work has been regularly reviewed and exhibited. The book, Supreme Vice, is published by Morel Books in 2011.

Exhibition in Brighton - Opens 04.03.2011

Grammar, Nonsense & Imagination

Stephanie Lawerence - Performance and Visual Art

 Exhibiton open from 4th March 2011 - 12th March 2011
Gallery Open Monday - Saturday / 10am - 5pm / Entry is Free

Grammar, Nonsense and Imagination is an exhibition of second year student work at the University of Brighton Gallery from the Performance and Visual Art programme and Fine Art Printmaking course.

Performance and Visual Art dance, music and theatre pathways invite you to explore a collection of dynamic and vivid interdisciplinary works in the form of installations, live performance, interactive sculptures, photography, moving image and sound works which challenge discipline boundaries and offer varied ways for audiences to engage with artworks.

Fine Art Printmaking student work blurs the edges between old and new assimilating an array of practices including speculations around drawing, collage, the photographic, book-works and digital technologies, to form new approaches to a timeless and evolving craft.

Dare to take a challenge with River Jade’s hanging installation or confront the live being in Martha Mosse’s performance and moving image installation. Take part in the interactive questioning of the power of surveillance in Lucy Abel’s online narrative. Confront the face of society in Rebecca Mann’s portraits or contemplate how sound shifts our perception of the intricate drawings of Rebecca Davies. Take a journey though Melissa Campbell’s manipulated landscapes or into the private domestic world of Penny Long’s screen and sound installation.

In response to Wittgenstein’s philosophical ideas Performance and Visual Art and Fine Art Printmaking students investigate the language of their disciplines, exploring the creative act of nonsense to ignite the imagination.

"Wittgenstein proposed that our understanding of the world could be defined by the study of language, illustrating that philosophy was an activity like any other and perhaps closer to the arts and sciences. He places nonsense between grammar and imagination as a creative act, which is distinguishable from mere gibberish. It is language that links thought with reality and imagination, initiating a private language that includes the visual arts going beyond the limit of language and thought". Barry Barker, Principal Research Fellow, University of Brighton

Exhibition - Tate Modern Opens 11.02.2011

 Level 2 Gallery: Out of Place

 

About the exhibition

Tate Modern’s Level 2 Gallery presents Out of Place, an exhibition that has arisen from a collaboration between Tate Modern and Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan. The exhibition features four artists from different backgrounds whose diverse political and social circumstances have prompted them to consider their environment. The artists in Out of Place each explore the relationship between dominant political forces and personal and collective histories by looking at urban space, architectural structures and the condition of displacement.

Hrair Sarkissian’s In Between 2007 is a series of large-scale photographs of austere Soviet-style buildings left abandoned in the dramatic hills and valleys of rural Armenia. They register the paradox experienced by this Syrian artist of Armenian origin of ‘returning’ to a land which he had only known from family stories, as the reality of the region replaced the country he had imagined. In The Valley 2007-8, Ahlam Shibli explores conditions in the village Arab al-Shibli, where Palestinians living under Israeli jurisdiction face relocation from their land. In Goter 2002-3, she looks at the lives of Palestinians of Bedouin descent from al-Naqab (Negev). 

In the 1970s, Ion Grigorescu began recording everyday scenes in his home city of Bucharest with an 8 mm camera. In his films and photographs he focuses on the unregimented activities taking place amid the rapidly changing urban landscape. His images of children playing, as well as of haphazardly discarded objects, contrast with the uniformity of the surrounding architecture from Romania’s Communist past. Cevdet Erek’s Shading Monument for the Artist 2009 reflects more generally on the possibilities of political art. The shadow-sculpture casts text on the gallery wall with varying intensity throughout the day; the words have been taken from memorials to those who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Appropriating these words for his artist’s monument, Erek blurs the status of political activism and artistic action.

Out of Place is curated by Kasia Redzisz and Ala’ Younis.

Spencer Tunick

Naked in Mexico: Spencer Tunick
http://www.spencertunick.com/

"Naked in Mexico" was a documentray aired on Sky Arts about the performance work of Spencer Tunick.

His work is a combination of photography and performances.
The above image is taken in Mexico on May 6th 2007 18,000 people posed for him outside Mexico Citys principle square the Zocalo.

"Artist Spencer Tunick has been documenting the live nude figure in public, with photography and video, since 1992. since 1994 he has organised over 75 temporary site-specific installations around the world. Tunick's installations encompass dozens, hundreds or thousands of volunteers: and his photographs are records of these events. The individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together metamorphose into a new shape. the bodies extend into and upon the landscape like a substance. These grouped masses which do not underscore sexuality become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one's views of nudity and privacy. The work also refers to the complex issue of presenting art in permanent or temporary public spaces."

Taken from http://www.spencertunick.com/bio.html

First Post

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