A short tour of Flesh Reality, the debut exhibition at Point Zero project space, London.

A short tour of Flesh Reality, the debut exhibition at Point Zero project space, London. 

Flesh Reality explores the human relationship with the body and features works by Sarah Lucas, John Isaacs, Konrad Wyrebek, Laurie Simmons, Matthew Miles, Erwin Wurm, Kiki Smith, Whitney McVeigh, Tatsumi Hijikata, Matthew Killick, Hans Bellmer and Jiří Kolář.

FLESH REALITY - May/June - Point Zero project space, London‏

Flesh Reality explores the human relationship with the body and features works by Sarah Lucas, John Isaacs, Konrad Wyrebek, Erwin Wurm, Matthew Miles, Laurie Simmons, Whitney McVeigh, Tatsumi Hijikata, Kiki Smith,Matthew Killick, Hans Bellmer and Jiri Kolar.

Matthew Miles (video), Konrad Wyrebek (sculpture), Jiri Kolar
(collage), Whitney McVeigh (monoprint), Sarah Lucas (sculpture, courtesy
of Sadie Coles HQ) Konrad Wyrebek (paintings), John Isaacs (sculpture)

Sarah Lucas (sculpture, courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ), Konrad Wyrebek
(paintings), Laurie Simmons (print, courtesy of Wilkinson Gallery),
Matthew Miles and Konrad Wyrebek (video), John Issacs (sculpture, courtesy of Aeroplastics Contemporary) 

Whitney McVeigh (monoprint), Sarah Lucas (sculpture, courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ), Konrad Wyrebek (paintings) 

Erwin Wurm (print, courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg), Konrad Wyrebek (sculpture), Matthew Miles (video) 

Erwin Wurm (print, courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg), Matthew Miles (video) 

Konrad Wyrebek (painting) , John Issacs (sculpture), Laurie Simmons (print, courtesy of Wilkinson Gallery) 

Whitney McVeigh (monoprint), Konrad Wyrebek (sculpture), Sarah Lucas
(sculpture, courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ), Konrad Wyrebek (two oil paintings)

Lesley Vance | David Kordansky Gallery

London: June 25 - August 13, 2011

Opening: Saturday, June 25, 6 - 9pm

Vance's paintings make use of a full range of effects associated with oil paint. Their compositions, activated by illusionistic plays of light and wet-on-wet brushwork, function as vessels for the movement of paint itself: for hue, viscosity, and the relationship between hand and medium. The work is defined by this simultaneous action, one in which paint can be seen both for its intrinsic properties and for its ability to imply fictive spaces.

While Vance's process begins with the observation of actual objects that she arranges and lights in the studio, the paintings are records of an evolution of materials, and of the transformation from one set of objects and light effects to another. In Vance's work abstraction is a force that establishes alchemical relationships between artworks and the circumstances that give rise to them.

The new paintings often depict attenuated, dispersed shapes rather than consolidated ones, as if to call attention to light's calligraphic movement across the visual field. They also chart unexpected connections between the lineage of the still life genre and a host of other archetypes and movements throughout the history of art. In particular, some of the new works conjure the otherworldly light, perforated spaces, and strange familiarity that the surrealists brought to painting during the first half of the twentieth century.

A body of new watercolor works on paper represents another material expression of these concerns. Like the paintings, they are documents of a multi-phased process of looking and legislating the transition of light from one medium to another. Their brushwork, however, occurs at a smaller scale, and brings out more intimate aspects of the forms and their relationships to the overall composition. The differences that separate the watercolors from the paintings are differences of degree rather than essence. In this sense they are not representations of pre-existing things, but essays on light as the basic force of representation.

Lesley Vance's work is currently on view in Tableaux, Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France. Other recent group exhibitions include Everything You Can Imagine is Real..., Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York; Psycho Painting, Carlson/Massimo De Carlo Gallery, London; Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and the 2010 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Bill Culbert | Black Light | Laurent Delaye

London: June 10th - July 9th 2011

Bill Culbert (born 1935) came from New Zealand in 1957, studied at the Royal College of Art in London between 1957 and 1960, and by the early 70’s was exhibiting in the UK's most prestigious galleries and museums. He lives and works between London and Provence.

Initially a painter working within the realm of constructivism, Bill Culbert began his experimentations with electric light in 1968 and started to use shadows, camera obscura, bulbs and fluorescent as his core medium, constructing and retaining light into sculpture. Soon his work generated intense interest and he exhibited extensively, with many solo shows including the Serpentine Gallery (1976), and the ICA (1983 and 1986). His work received also much attention in France where he participated in major exhibitions such as Electra, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1983, Britannica, 30 years of Sculpture, Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux (1990), Le Havre, where he had his first French retrospective in the same year. Other exhibitions include The Sixties Art Scene in London at the Barbican, curated by David Mellor (1993), Un siècle de Sculpture Anglaise, Jeu de Paume, 1996. In New Zealand, his solo retrospective at the City Gallery, Wellington, toured to the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, from 1997 to 1998. Bill Culbert has had more than 100 solo exhibitions to date.


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Jessica Warboys | Sutton Lane

LONDON : 9 JUNE - 21 JULY

Wilhelm Sasnal | Sadie Coles

London: 09 June – 27 August 2011

Wilhelm Sasnal's latest exhibition at Sadie Coles features an extensive series of new paintings. In line with his previous work as both a painter and filmmaker, the paintings draw upon a broad range of sources and traverse a multiplicity of subjects, from everyday objects and scenes to reinterpretations of works by Seurat. read more...

Alice Neel | Men Only Victoria Miro

LONDON: Exhibition open 8 June - 29 July 2011

Exhibition organised in association with Jeremy Lewison LtdThe ten portraits in Men Only show a variety of attitudes, from the erotic to the ironic, in an exhibition that looks at Neel's particular relationship to her male subjects. Amongst the works included are Neel's third and final portrait of her friend the author Max White as well as two powerful portraits of her sons Hartley and Richard as young men. Born near Philadelphia in 1900, Alice Neel was the foremost American portraitist and one of the most engaging painters of her times. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition with text by the poet, fiction writer and art critic Sue Hubbard.

David Kordansky Gallery, LA
Art Basel 42 | Art Statements
Presenting Kathryn Andrews
June 15 - 19, 2011 at Booth S20

Art Statements preview takes place June 13, 2011

TIM NOBLE & SUE WEBSTER

Berlin Gallery Weekend:

Blain|Southern opened its Berlin gallery last friday with an exhibition by

Tim Noble and Sue Webster.

Monumental both in scale and ambition, Turning the Seventh Corner is a site-specific installation inspired by the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs which has been made in collaboration with the internationally acclaimed architect David Adjaye.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster are best known for their ‘shadow sculptures’ in which they use discarded rubbish, animals and other matter that are then illuminated from a single light source creating portraits of themselves. Their work also includes light sculptures which elevate the kitsch of low art forms, such as Las Vegas strip hotels and tattoo parlours, into iconic tropes of pop art. Turning The Seventh Corner draws on these and other practices. However, the artists’ desire for an element of surprise and mystery has led them to hold back on revealing every detail of the work, which they have created as a journey of exploration.

Upon arriving at the doorway on the second floor of the gallery the viewer enters a labyrinth of man-made tunnels, dimly lit with narrowing passages. These ascend and descend in a spiral-like manner and have been designed to disorientate and, in doing so, steer the mind towards a more open and meditative state, one alive to enquiry.

After passing the seven corners, an allusion to the Book of Proverbs, 9:1 - "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars", the viewer enters a tomb-like area where the secret creation by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, one of beauty, surprise, wonder and enlightenment, is revealed.

Turning the seventh corner can be seen at the Blain|Southern in Berlin until the 16th of July

IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

Ian Hamilton Finlay – Definitions

Victoria Miro Gallery
May 5th – 1st June 2011
Private view, 4 May 2011


LONDON: Victoria Miro Gallery present a unique juxtaposition of Ian Hamilton Finlay's sculpture and a series of text works, termed Definitions. These Definitions present Finlay's own interpretations of the meanings of words, and in conjunction with related sculptural works, display Finlay's adroitness in exploring the written word's materiality.

Ian Hamilton Finlay was at heart a poet, whose prose, rooted in the concrete poetry movement, finds its sublime presentation within the visual field. Informed by numerous sources, his work operates within a context of literature, mythology and classicism. Finlay's ongoing endeavour throughout his lifetime of practice was to expand, liberate and challenge our understanding and perception of the written word, its limitations and its role in unspoken, communicative and aesthetic exchange. He achieved this through poetry rendered in many materials and forms.

Finlay's adept use of syntax and narrative configuration weaved refined distinctions with a lyrical philosophy. His skill lay in his unique ability to break down complex ideas into coherent single words and short phrases, infused with Finlay's characteristic wit and, often, wry humour.

This exhibition reveals how Finlay plays with our presuppositions and undermines our very understanding of language. His Definitions are interspersed at considered at precisely choreographed points through the exhibition, initiating a narrative journey for the visitor through the consideration of text and object. No visitor's reading shall be the same, as these open-ended propositions allow for endless interpretations of work and meaning. The intricate and multi-layered relationships established between language, text, object and visitor are integral to an enduring search for the pure, which prevailed within Finlay's practice.

Born in 1925 in Nassau, Bahamas, Ian Hamilton Finlay was a philosopher, sculptor and poet who reinvigorated the classical tradition in his art. Finlay's diverse production encompassed a variety of creative forms including prints, poems, books, inscriptions, neons, sculptures, permanent installations and landscape design, all celebrating the sustaining power of words. The purest kind of conceptual artist, Finlay was sensitive to the formalist concerns (colour, shape, scale, texture, composition) of literary and artistic modernism. In 1961 he founded Wild Hawthorn Press with Jessie McGuffie, mainly to introduce contemporary artists to Scotland, and which over the years came to concentrate exclusively on Finlay's printed works. His lifetime's work, the garden at Little Sparta, Stonypath, Scotland, begun in 1966, most fully realises the movement of words and language into the world. Ian Hamilton Finlay died 27 March 2006, aged 80.

SPARTACUS CHETWYND

Spartacus Chetwynd – Od Man Out

Sadie Coles HQ
05th May – 04 June

Private view at 05th May 6-8pm

LONDON: For her first show with Sadie Coles HQ, Spartacus Chetwynd presents Odd Man Out, a play that runs for five hours every Thursday and Saturday this May. The performance hopes to enliven bored Londoners. The five-hour performances revolve around ideas of democracy, the right to vote and the disincentives against engaging in politics. Giant photocopies work as barriers to divide the gallery into alternative routes, with voting booths at the start of the exhibition leading through to different performances.

AI WEIWEI

PRIVATE VIEW 12th May, LONDON

12th may Lisson Galleryopens a major exhibition of the work ofAi Weiwei. The selection of key works from the past six years was agreed with the artist at the beginning of this year.

Ai Weiwei has been described as one of the most significant living artists, cultural figures, and champions of human rights in China and worldwide. He was detained by authorities in Beijing while trying to board a flight to Hong Kong on 3rd of April, and has not been seen or heard from since.

Supporters of Ai Weiwei are determined to proceed with his planned projects. These include the major public installation 'Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads' opening on New York on 2 May, and at Somerset House in London on may 12, the day of the opening at the Lisson Gallery.

Solomon R. Guggenheim has started a petition to free Weiwei wich can be found here.

Updated news and information can be found on www.freeweiwei.org

LISSON GALLERY

13 May – 16 July 2011

52–54 & 29 Bell Street

London

PRIVATE VIEW

Thursday 12 May

6 – 8 pm

DESIGNING ISLANDS

Five Thousand Generations of Birds is a large contemporary art exhibition with a corresponding artist-in-residency program, situated at Fitjar, an archipelago on the West-coast of Norway. The Fitjar islands comprise a total of 381 islands, isles and rocks. Selected artists from around the world will be invited to participate in the program, where they are to develop works during a period of three weeks. Each of the artists are given their own isle where they will work and exhibit their work.

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RICHARD WATHEN

LONDON: Last night Richard Wathen opened his latest exhibition at the Max Wigram Gallery in London, consisting of a series of painted selfportraits. Born in 1971 in London Richard Wathen now lives and works in Norfolk. In 2010 Wathen’s projects included a solo show at Salon 94 in New York, Dawnbreakers at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and CAPC, Bordeaux, France. In 2009 he had a solo show at Max Wigram Gallery and was in Young/Old Masters at Robillant and Voena, London. Other exhibitions include Go For It, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany (2008), No End in Sight, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France (2008), andOld School, Hauser & Wirth, London (2007), 
Eau Savage Part II, Fieldgate Gallery, London (2007). In 2004 he exhibited in Expander at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

For those who missed the opening, be sure to pop by the Max Wigram Gallery at 106, New Bond Street before 21st may to check it out.

RECOVERY OF DISCOVERY

BERLIN: A couple of weeks ago, Cyprien Gaillard opened his latest show The Recovery of Discovery at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin – a massive pyramid built up by 72.000 bottles of Efes Beer bottles. People were invited to come to sit on the pyramid and drink the beer. What seemed to be the entire art and hipster scene of Berlin gazed to the event, and as the evening went on the pyramid slowly fell apart as it was consumed by the viewers/ participants.

GED QUINN

PRIVATE VIEW:

Thursday 28 April 2011, 6-8pm

From the 28th of April to 1st of June

Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by British artist Ged Quinn. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery and follows his much lauded inclusion in ‘Newspeak: British Art Now’ at the Saatchi Gallery in 2010.

JAMIE LAMBIE

Jamie Lambie is a Glasgow based artist, musician and DJ. After winning the Turner Prize in 2005, he's been occupied with several exciting projects. such as his Found Flower Paintings which are currently available for purchase at Other Criteria's shop in New Bond Street, London.

VIZUAL

A little video montage by Julia Fjelddalen and Bjørnar Pedersen

Film screening

Film screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini's 'Teorema'

On occasion of Berlinde De Bruyckere's 'Into One-Another To P.P.P.', an exhibition dedicated to the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hauser & Wirth New York is delighted to host a screening of Pasolini’s iconic film ‘Teorema’ (1968).

The film will be shown continuously from 10 am to 10 pm on Friday 22 April and Saturday 23 April. Screenings will begin at 10 am, 12 pm, 2 pm, 4 pm, 6 pm, and 8 pm.

For further information on the film screening, please click here. For further information and images of 'Into One-Another To P.P.P.', please click here.

Hauser and Wirth

'Mysterium Leib. Berlinde De Bruyckere im Dialog mit Cranach und Pasolini' Stiftung Moritzburg, Halle, Germany 3 April – 3 July 2011 Recent works by Berlinde De Bruyckere are juxtaposed with work by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Pier Paolo Pasolini in a new exhibition presented by Stiftung Moritzburg. Confronting themes of physical and psychological violence in contemporary society, the exhibition presents a unique dialogue that focuses on the artists’ collective exploration of humanity and the corporeal. The exhibition will also travel to Kunstmuseum Bern and Kunsthalle Wien, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. For further information, please visit the Stiftung Moritzburg website.

Berlinde De Bruyckere, Romeu, 2010

'Robin Dostoyevsky by Andy Hope 1930' Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga, Spain 8 April – 19 June 2011 Centro de Arte Contemporàneo hosts the first solo exhibition of work by Andy Hope 1930 in Spain. Showing the entire Robin Dostoyevsky series based on a fictional figure created by the artist, the exhibition will unveil the final large-scale painting in the series and provide insight into the unique vocabulary and complex iconography central to his work. A catalogue is published to accompany the exhibition. For further information, please visit the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo website.

Andy Hope 1930, Robin Dostoyevsky 5, 2010

'Roni Horn. Photographien / Photographic Works' Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 15 April – 14 August 2011 Hamburger Kunsthalle presents ‘Roni Horn. Photographien / Photographic Works’, an exhibition that brings together a selection of Horn's major photographic series from the last three decades of her career. The exhibition explores the prevailing motifs of duality, portraiture and gender in Horn’s oeuvre, and reveals her unique ability to subvert the notion of photography as a static means of expression. For further information, please visit the Hamburger Kunsthalle website.

Roni Horn, This is Me, This is You (detail), 1998 – 2000

‘Paul McCarthy – Selected Works’ Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium 29 April – 2 October 2011 A solo exhibition of works by Paul McCarthy will go on display at the Charles Riva Collection in Brussels. Uncovering McCarthy’s complex and provocative explorations of American popular culture and the surreal anthology of themes that have dominated his artistic practice, the exhibition features works from the collection including video, sculpture and photography made between 1993 and 2009. For further information, please visit the Charles Riva Collection website.

Paul McCarthy, Silver Santa, 2007

‘Monika Sosnowska. The Fire Escape’ Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico 9 April - 7 August 2011 The vast sculpture court of the Museo Rufino Tamayo will be transformed by Monika Sosnowska's new sculpture 'The Fire Escape'. Conceived especially for the space and taking inspiration from the ubiquitous fire escapes in her native Poland, Sosnowska's imposing construction creates a fascinating dialogue between sculptural identity and architectural critique. For further information, please visit the Museo Rufino Tamayo website.

Monika Sosnowska, Model for The Fire Escape, 2011

Subodh Gupta, Roni Horn, Paul McCarthy ‘In Praise of Doubt’ Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy 10 April 2011 – 31 December 2012 Opening at the Punta della Dogana in Venice is ‘In Praise of Doubt’, a presentation of major historical and new works from the renowned François Pinault Collection, curated by Caroline Bourgeois. Showing works by twenty artists, including Subodh Gupta, Roni Horn and Paul McCarthy, the exhibition investigates the complex notions of identity, uncertainty and the body in space. For further information, please visit the Punta della Dogana website.

Paul McCarthy, The Wedge, 2004 – 2011 Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

LITTLE JOE – No. 2 is almost here! Please join us to celebrate the launch of our second issue at the 25th BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on Tuesday 5 April after a screening of THE FORGOTTEN FILMS OF CHARLES LUDLAM. The films start at 6.20pm and there are a few tickets left to purchase. If you are unable to make the screening, please join us for complimentary drinks in the Atrium at the BFI Southbank from 8.00pm where copies of the magazine will be on sale. Then on Saturday 9 April, LITTLE JOE teams up with FRINGE! The London Gay Film Fest to present a late night pre-release screening of Frank Ripploh's TAXI ZUM KLO at the Rio Cinema in Dalston. This underground classic adorns our cover and returns to our screens fully restored and uncut. Tickets are £7.50 and are on sale now. Book ahead to avoid disappointment. www.littlejoemagazine.com www.facebook.com/littlejoemagazine

GIORGIO SADOTTI

JOHN SUMMERS

8 April - 1 May

For every action...

...justifies the means.

Shopping malls, motorway service stations, airports, 'places of decision and farewell'; maybe the real non-places are somewhere else, exactly where thinking rests before it turns into the art-object or the art-event. Thinking that might stay hidden, even to the thinker (the thinker in clay or paint, that is) except in those cases where it's shared, where it passes from one artist to another in the process of collaboration. Just another kind of place of decision, of course.

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