Viewing articles from 2014/05

Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery Castle Place, off Friar Lane, Nottingham, NG1 6EL

Painter, Painter: Dan Perfect, Fiona Rae

Painter, Painter, installation view (2014)

Both these artists find space between the abstract and the representational world in unique and distinctive ways. Committed to the expressive and enduring language of painting, they share a deep interest in our contemporary experience refracted through technology and cultural media, with manifestly different outcomes in their work.

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Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011

Mika Rottenberg: Bowls Balls Souls Holes

 Still from Bowls Balls Souls Holes, 2014

Expanding her exploration of the production of objects, units and value, Rottenberg’s newest body of work, Bowls Balls Souls Holes, investigates cause and effect phenomena less easily traceable, such as quantum entanglement, magnetic fields, global warming, and the production of luck.

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Skarstedt Gallery, 20 East 79th Street, New York NY 10075

Lucien Smith: Tigris

Tigris, Installation view at Skarstedt Gallery (2014)

In Tigris, Smith explores themes inspired by the recollection of the first work of art that strongly impacted him—Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa—a poster reproduction of which hung on the wall of his classroom. His new works speak to the concealment, or camouflage, of memories.

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The Lord Mayor’s Chapel, Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5TB, UK

Annika Kahrs: A Concert for the Birds

Annika Kahrs: A Concert for the Birds

A beautiful chapel teams with trilling songbirds; one step and a world away from the busy street outside. Every hour, a concert pianist plays Franz Liszt’s St. Francis of Assisi Preaching To The Birds, a piece inspired by the fable of the friar and his ability to communicate with animals. Piano and birdsong swoop together and fall apart, veering between harmony and discord, gamely competing for attention.

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Gerald Moore Gallery, Mottingham Lane, London SE9 4RW

Tokyo in the Fall

Installation view

In Tokyo in the Fall we set the scene; a distant context that takes its name from Christopher Orlando Page’s work. In this painting, a wardrobe is realistically rendered and affected by fictional shadows. Its title ignores the artwork as object and instead positions it (as well as the artist and viewer) as subjects within an imagined and exoticised context; a scenario subject to myth, conjecture, stereotype.

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monCHÉRI, Rue de la Régence 67 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

Yeah and look where it got us

Installation view

In eighteenth century Venice the first coffee houses were born, forerunners of our bars, they were, of course, also chocolate shops which raced to modify the existing recipes and invent new versions.

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SWG3 Gallery, 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow, G3 8QG

Screen Play

Screen Play, Installation View SWG3

A show of documentations of artworks by Kathryn Andrews, Brendan Anton Jaks, Eva Berendes, Simon Denny, Carson Fisk-Vittori, Patrick Hill, Tilman Hornig, Dan Rees, Philipp Timischl, Anne de Vries.

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Platform A Gallery, Middlesbrough Railway Station, Zetland Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 1EG

Lothar Götz: White Nights

Line of Beauty and Reflection, Installation view at Platform A

Platform A Gallery are proud to present ‘White Nights’, a solo exhibition of the work of Lothar Götz, one of the most important contemporary artists working across the U.K and Europe today.

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Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 1EE

Yinka Shonibare MBE’s: The British Library

The British Library

Brighton Festival and HOUSE, Brighton’s festival of visual art and domestic space, are delighted to announce the opening of Yinka Shonibare MBE’s The British Library a new sculptural installation exploring themes of immigration, migration and refuge, co-commissioned by HOUSE and Brighton Festival 2014.

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