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25.06.21 - 'Michael Landy's Welcome to Essex' opens tomorrow
For his first major public gallery exhibition in the UK for almost a decade - and on the 20th anniversary of one of his most famous works, ‘Break Down’ - Landy has produced a series of ambitious new commissions based on the history of Essex and his fascination with the county’s contemporary portrayal in popular culture.
Visitors to Firstsite can also see ‘Michael Landy’s Break Down: 20 Years’, an archive exhibition of previously unseen documentation, video footage, drawings and ephemera from Landy's ground-breaking 2001 work.Exhibition dates: 26 June - 5 September 2021
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23.06.21 - Paul Pfeiffer and Languid Hands in conversation
Paul Pfeiffer and Languid Hands will be in conversation with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa on 1 July at 7pm GMT, in ‘Figuring the Invisible: anti-Blackness, Art & Testimony.’
To follow Anne Anlin Cheng, what happens when we ‘shift our attention away from the visibility of race to its visuality?’
What happens when we attend to the strategic modes of appearance within the visible developed by racialised subjects, or modelled to us through their art? What happens when we consider racialised forms of visuality and aurality as tactics designed not solely to evade racialised violence, but as methods of manifesting and mobilising subaltern histories, and embodied forms of knowing?
How should we respond to the grammars of black performance – in word, image and sound – as practices of knowing? How do we respond to the ongoingness of truths known to racialised subjects that are nevertheless inadmissible within the normative strictures of ‘proof,’ or the standard forms of documentary practice?
These questions will be taken up in a discussion between Paul Pfeiffer and Languid Hands, moderated by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, in a panel that centres around a screening of Pfeiffer’s ‘The Long Count’ (I Shook Up The World, 2000), Caryatid (Broner, 2020), and Languid Hands’s Towards a Black Testimony: Prayer/Protest/Peace (2019).
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21.06.21 - Cecily Brown commission will feature as part of The Courtauld's reopening
A new large-scale painting by Cecily Brown will go on display in November 2021 as part of The Courtauld Gallery’s most significant modernisation project in its history.
The work has been specially commissioned for the curved wall of the historic 18th century staircase, and will reflect Cecily Brown’s deep interest in the paintings in the Gallery’s collection.
The commission revisits the early history of the building. In the 18th century a painting by Giovanni Battista Cipriani occupied this same location when this part of Somerset House was home to the Royal Academy of Arts.
The commission has been supported by The Garcia Family Foundation.
Pictured: The Courtauld at Somerset House. Photo: Benedict Johnson
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07.06.21 - 'Small Axe' wins 6 BAFTAS
Congratulations to Steve McQueen and the Small Axe team for their 6 BAFTA wins.
Malachi Kirby - supporting actor
Jacqueline Durran - costume design
Jojo Williams - make up and hair design
Shabier Kirchner - photography and lighting: fiction
Helen Scott - production design
Gary Davy - scripted casting
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07.06.21 - Michael J. Prokopow’s monograph on Hurvin Anderson is now available to buy
Michael J. Prokopow's Contemporary Painters Series monograph on Hurvin Anderson is published today.
This monograph is the first comprehensive overview of the career to date of British artist Hurvin Anderson (b.1965).
Anderson is known for painting loosely rendered 'observations' of scenes and spaces loaded with personal or communal meaning. Anderson's painting style is notable for the ease with which he slips between figuration and abstraction, playing with the tropes of earlier landscape traditions and 20th-century abstraction. His paintings of barbershop interiors, country tennis clubs and tropical roadsides teem with rich brushwork and multitudes of decorative patterns or architectural features, at once obscuring and adding to underlying ruminations on identity and place.
Drawing on interviews with the artist, Michael J. Prokopow offers a critical assessment of Hurvin Anderson's painting practice.
Image: Hurvin Anderson, Last House, 2013, oil on linen, Monsoon Art Collection © Hurvin Anderson. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Richard Ivey. -
27.05.2021 - 'The Messy Truth' Podcast with Catherine Opie
"Gem Fletcher chats to Catherine Opie. Known for her powerfully dynamic photography that examines the ideals and norms surrounding the culturally constructed American dream and American identity. She first gained recognition in the 1990s for her series of studio portraits titled Being and Having, in which she photographed gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals drawn from her circle of friends and artists. Opie has travelled extensively across the country exploring the diversity of America’s communities and landscapes, documenting quintessential American subjects—high school football players and the 2008 presidential inauguration—while also continuing to display America’s subcultures through formal portraits. Using dramatic staging, Opie presents cross-dressers, same-sex couples, and tattooed, scarred, and pierced bodies in intimate photographs that evoke traditional Renaissance portraiture—images of power and respect. In her portraits and landscapes, Opie establishes a level of ambiguity of both identity and place by exaggerating masculine or feminine characteristics, or by exaggerating distance, cropping, or blurring her landscapes.
Catherine has just released a new monograph – published by Phaidon, the book is organised in three themes: people, politics and place – the core tenants of her artistic investigation. It’s presented non-chronologically, a curatorial strategy she has been experimenting with for the last decade., which teases out connections between seemingly incongruent bodies of work. The result is a book with such a dynamic visual narrative, you can return to it again and again and see something new.
In the episode we talk about everything from visual strategies, audiences in the digital age, self-doubt, road trips, bearing witness, empathy, belonging and so much more. What is remarkable about Catherine is the ways in which she has the ability to shapeshift as an artist, to show a multiplicity of inquiry, queering the medium over and over again." - Gem Fletcher/'The Messy Truth' Podcast
To listen to the podcast click here
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25.05.2021 - Alexandre da Cunha Live from Studio with Brighton CCA
Tomorrow, 25 May at 12:30pm (London time) Alexandre da Cunha will be live from his studio with Ben Roberts (Artistic Director @brightoncca) for the launch of a new series, Process and Practice.
For the inaugural presentation Brighton CCA invite you to an informal conversation with Alexandre about his practice, working during lockdown and upcoming projects, as he prepares for a major new exhibition of work opening at Brighton CCA on 6 August 2021.
The conversation will be broadcast live on Zoom with the opportunity for questions at the end, however spaces are limited and booking is essential.
Process and Practice is a series of informal presentations with artists focusing on what they’re working on right now.Click here to book
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21.05.2021 - Cecily Brown in conversation with Francine Prose, Yale Center for British Art
Cecily Brown in conversation with Francine Prose, Yale Center for British Art
Date: 21 May 2021, 5 pm (EDT)
To register clik here
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12.05.2021 - Portals, a collaboration between NEON and the Hellenic Parliament
59 artists from 27 countries including 15 new site-specific works commissioned by NEON will be featured in the group exhibition Portals, opening on 11 June in the renovated spaces of the former Public Tobacco Factory – Hellenic Parliament Library & Printing House, as part of the collaboration between the Hellenic Parliament and NEON.
The timing is highly appropriate, as we commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, while at the same time countries and societies all over the world are reeling from the pandemic. Within this framework, Portals aspires to convey the messages, ideas and visions of contemporary artistic creation, investigating the new reality revealed through the prism of change and disruption. The exhibition is curated by Elina Kountouri, Director of NEON, and Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.The exhibition takes place in the NEON-renovated building of the former Public Tobacco Factory, which emerges as a modern cultural hub, open to all. In this space, artists from both Greece and across the world express the pluralism of ideas and address the concept of the collective and our cultural understanding of history and politics, public space and our communal past, present and future.
The exhibition is inspired by an article from 2020 by the novelist Arundhati Roy, on the Financial Times on 3 April 2020, who sees the pandemic as a “portal, a gateway between one world and the next”. Acknowledging that the rupture created by the pandemic individually and collectively opens a portal, it is up to us to negotiate our transition through it.
The exhibition explores contemporary reality and pays tribute to a world in need of healing and unity.
Participating Artists
Nikos Alexiou, El Anatsui, Dimitrios Antonitsis, Kutluğ Ataman, Kostas Bassanos, Vlassis Caniaris, Joana Choumali, Anastasia Douka, Eirene Efstathiou, Brendan Fernandes, Apostolos Georgiou, Jeffrey Gibson, Robert Gober, Vangelis Gokas, Sonia Gomes, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Shilpa Gupta, Elif Kamisli, Kapwani Kiwanga, Panos Kokkinias, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Jannis Kounellis, Louise Lawler, Glenn Ligon, Liliane Lijn, Maria Loizidou, Tala Madani, Teresa Margolles, Steve McQueen, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Marisa Merz, Ad Minoliti, Alex Mylona, Nikos Navridis, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Duro Olowu, Maria Papadimitriou, Dimitris Papaioannou, Cornelia Parker, Adam Pendleton, Solange Pessoa, Francis Picabia, Gala Porras-Kim, Michael Rakowitz, Ed Ruscha, Dana Schutz, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Elias Sime, Christiana Soulou, Do Ho Suh, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Alexandros Tzannis, Adriana Varejão, Erika Verzutti, Adrián Villar Rojas , Danh Võ, Daphne Wright, Myrto Xanthopoulou, Billie Zangewa.
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18.05.21 - Steve McQueen: Ashes at Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Steve McQueen: Ashes
Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Exhibition dates: 18 May - 12 September 2021
Ashes (2002–2015) is a two-channel video installation by artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen. It is composed of footage filmed by McQueen over ten years, on two separate visits to the Caribbean island of Grenada — a former French and British colony that achieved independence in 1974.
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