| André Stitt | Substance: Residue, Drawings & Partial Objects 1976 - 2008
Substance: a major solo exhibition by André Stitt launches between 6pm and 8pm on Friday 29th January 2010. Stitt is one of Northern Ireland's most important contemporary art exports. He is currently based in Cardiff but the themes that inform his practice are rooted in his formative years in Belfast. His work is highly charged, generally hard hitting and may not be suitable for all... |
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| Rose Wylie | Film Notes
UNION is announcing “Film Notes”, Rose Wylie’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
Applying a defiantly unsophisticated aesthetic, Wylie’s large two-canvas paintings begin as drawings of frames recollected from films. Essentially they are remembered images, their ‘accuracy’ is a matter of truth to their impact on a once-viewing. Wylie’s subjective response to the... |
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| Icons of a Modern Age - Bartha Contemporary s Anniversary exhibition
Bartha Contemporary is presenting the exhibition 'Icons of a Modern Age' marking the gallery's tenth anniversary.
The installation feature's works by four gallery artists, Henrik Eiben (Ger. b. 1975), Clay Ketter (Amer. / Swed. b. 1961), Mike Meiré (Ger. b. 1964) and Beat Zoderer (Swiss b. 1955). The private view will take place on Saturday January 23rd from 3 to 5 PM.
Henrik... |
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| James Lee Byars at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
"Like a sculptural sigh of wonderment, the piece is typical Byars: touching, vulnerable and ethereal."Robert Clark, The Guardian
Yorkshire Sculpture Park launches St Bartholomew's Chapel as a unique exhibition space with The Angel, a spellbinding work by the late American artist James Lee Byars (1932-1997). Built in 1744, YSP is opening the chapel to the public for the first time... |
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| Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real
Artists: Cecily Brown, Hans Josephsohn, Shaun McDowell, Katy Moran and Maaike Schoorel
… in the presence of a painting, it is not a question of my making ever more references to the subject … Rather … it is a matter of contemplating, of perceiving the painting by way of the silent signals which come at me … from its every part, which emanate from the traces of paint set... |
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| Ruth Buchanan | Several Attentions
Several Attentions – Lying Freely Part III is New Zealand artist Ruth Buchanan’s first solo show in the UK and is realised in collaboration with partners Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht and If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam, each of whom are producing a stage of the project.
Buchanan has worked across these three... |
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| I shake you by the hand comrade Bacon : British Art Abroad
This display takes its title from an entry in the visitors’ book to Francis Bacon’s 1988 show in Moscow, which took place just as Russia was opening to the outside world, and the Berlin Wall was about to fall.
Pointing to the story of the British Council’s 75-year history of showing British art abroad, the show draws materials from the organisation’s archive together with... |
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| Future Map ‘09
Future Map is London’s premiere annual exhibition of the best emerging talent from the current graduating year at London’s creative powerhouse, University of the Arts London. This year, Future Map will be hosted by 20 Hoxton Square Projects, a collaborative project space dedicated to showcasing emerging contemporary artists.
This academic year alone 9152 students graduated from... |
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| Cold Cell | UNION at The Old Police Station
19-20 December 2009
Saturday - Sunday 12-6pm
07-10 January 2010
Thursday - Sunday 12-6pm
The exhibition will take place in the prison cells and ground floor gallery space of a now disused police station. Like the title already suggests, the meaning of the show is derived from the harsh interrogation techniques that have been officially authorized since the dramatic events of... |
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| Conrad Ventur at Rokeby
Rokeby presents Conrad Ventur’s first solo exhibition in the UK.
Ventur is recongised for creating complex environments and installations that raise questions regarding time and space. Whilst exploring the subject in relation to historical and contemporary technologies, not as a complete unity but rather as multiple temporal configurations.
In his most recent work This is My... |
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| Earth: Art of a changing world
For more than a decade, scientists and politicians have been arguing with each other, and amongst themselves, with regard to the speed of climate change and the impact of our lives today on the environment within which the human race exists. Recent debates have centred less on the possibility and more on the certainty and speed with which change will take place. As the debate has... |
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| Yuri Gorbachev | Paintings 1994-2009
Gallery K of Hampstead, together with La Parole Divine, a new art consultancy is exhibiting the art of Yuri Gorbachev, and to welcome him in person at the opening. KALEIDOSCOPE is a wonderful array of paintings in brilliant jewel-like colours. The myriad elements in the images are derived from traditional Russian folk themes, village life and childhood dreams, all executed with great... |
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| Head-Wig (Portrait of an exhibition): Selected by Paulina Olowska
Polish artist, Paulina Olowska, has brought together a number of works by international artists which can be related by a common theme, what she has termed ‘perceptual ambiguity’.
Most of the selected artworks operate within the genre of portraiture either specifically or ambiguously and include paintings by Jarosław Bauć, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski and Simon Ling and... |
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| Tom Badley at Rokeby
Tom Badley's practice is concerned with tracing systems of knowledge and highlighting the inconsistencies within this. One could interpret his interest in these conditions as something concerned with a crisis of narrative and the powers of legitimacy.
For his first solo exhibition in London Badley presents amongst other works a new large-scale video piece whereby he recreates... |
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| Xavier Ribas | Habitus
A solo exhibition by Catalan photographer Xavier Ribas, held jointly at Belfast Exposed and PLACE. The exhibition focuses on recent work presented in grid format and draws on Ribas’ longstanding interest in urban structure, archaeology and anthropology.
Habitus (2008) serves as departure point for the exhibition. The images taken in Barcelona over a decade, explore changing... |
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