jordan baseman | alex frost | dinu li | hannah maybank | nathaniel mellors |
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palazzo zenobio | fondamenta del soccorso | dorsoduro 2596 | venice | italy open: 7 june 2009 - 28 june 2009 hours: tuesday - sunday 10.00 - 18.00 exhibitors day: wednesday 3 june 2009 10.00 - 18.00 vernissage (press & preview days): thursday 4, friday 5 and saturday 6 june 2009 10.00 - 18.00 press & arts professionals launch: saturday 6 june 2009 at 10.30 [prosecco and pastries will be served] introduction | our sponsors | press | map | the artists |
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Jordan Baseman received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and an MA from Goldsmith's College, University of London. Baseman is currently the Reader in Time Based Media at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London, and is also a Lecturer at the Royal College of Art Sculpture School. He has a long history of carrying out projects in collaboration with various public institutions. These have included residencies and commissions for: Arts Council England, Papworth Hospital (Heart and Lung Transplant Unit), Cambridge, The Science Museum, London, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Grizedale Arts, London Arts, Camden Arts Centre, The Serpentine Gallery, Book Works, National Sculpture Factory (Cork, Ireland), British School at Rome, the Wellcome Trust, London, Monash University, (Melbourne Australia), University of Tasmania, (Hobart, Australia) and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Jordan Baseman has received grants from the Arts Humanities Research Council, the British Council, the Henry Moore Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, and London Arts Board. Jordan Baseman, Dark is the Night, 2009, 16mm film, 30 minutes. Courtesy of Matt's Gallery. Photo: Jordan Baseman, © Jordan Baseman |
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Born in London in 1973, Alex Frost studied fine art at Staffordshire University (BA 1995) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA 1998). Recently he has exhibited in solo shows at Tramway, Glasgow, Sandra Burgel, Berlin, Milton Keynes Gallery and Artsway, Hampshire. Group shows include Studio Voltaire Members Show, curated by Linder and Michael Bracewell, ‘Friends and Family’ at Anton Kern Gallery, New York and a Glasgow Print Studio commission. Frost lives and works in Glasgow. Frost lacerates the sensual anxiety of architectural and sculptural archives. Scorning monstrous lampoon, his drawings and sculptures rediscover the play, gusto and timbre of the preliminary stages of modernist art and design, the multifaceted spatial imaginaries of paper architecture and jewel-like decorative materials used in Art Nouveau model making. Alex Frost, Supplement (Slimatee) 2007, Ceramic tiles, grout, glue, canvas and polystyrene, 70 x 69 x 72cm. Courtesy of Sorcha Dallas. Photo: Ruth Clark, © Sorcha Dallas. |
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Born in Hong Kong, Dinu Li is a UK based artist living in Manchester. Li has exhibited his work internationally, with recent shows including: the 3rd Bucharest Biennale; Museumsnacht in St Gallen, Switzerland; Rivington Place in London; Space in London; Cornerhouse in Manchester; University of North Texas Art Gallery; Kulturbunker Cologne; Victoria & Albert Museum London; Contact Photo Fest 05 Toronto; White Space 798 Beijing and the Liverpool Biennale 04. He is a freelance curator and artistic programmer of numerous projects including the Look 07 Photo Review in Manchester and Make It a Better Place, a group exhibition touring across the UK. His work is reviewed in several catalogues and magazines such as Portfolio, Next Level, Tema Celeste, Ryuko Tsushin, and is featured in Thames and Hudson’s ‘The Photograph as Contemporary Art’. In 2007, Li published a major monograph of his work ‘The Mother of All Journeys’. It was short listed for the Contemporary Book Award at the 2007 Rencontres d’Arles Awards and was placed amongst the Best Photography Books for 2007 by The Sunday Times. He is the recipient of many national awards and commissions, and has undertaken residencies in China, Kazakhstan and the USA, and most recently at ArtSway, UK. In addition, Li guest lectures at universities across the UK and has participated in numerous debates and symposiums including Tate Modern, The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Dinu Li, Family Village, 2009, single channel video installation, variable sizes. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Dinu Li, © Dinu Li. |
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Born in Stafford in 1974 Hannah Maybank graduated from Liverpool John Moores University in 1997. Upon graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1999 she received both the prestigious T.I.Group Award and the Stephenson Harwood Prize for painting. Later that year she was invited to exhibit as part of The Contemporary Art Society's "Art Futures" at the Royal Festival Hall and as a result of this, was given her first solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils, London in 2002. In 2005 Maybank was given her first solo museum show at the New Art Gallery, Walsall and her first exposure in Ireland with a solo exhibition at Queen Street Studios, Belfast. Her paintings have been included in various group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, such as the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions of 2007 and 2008. During late 2007 she was awarded the 'Artist in Residence' at ArtSway, culminating in a solo show of her paintings at the gallery in April 2008. In September, that same year, she was included in the "Precious Things" exhibition at the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland and had a major exhibition of her work at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle. She will have her third solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils in November 2009. Hannah Maybank lives and works in London. Hannah Maybank, Carniferous Enclosure, 2008, Acrylic and latex on canvas, 120 x 150cm. Courtesy of the artist and Gimpel Fils. Photo: Nick Moss. © Hannah Maybank. |
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Nathaniel Mellors (born 1947, British) studied at the Ruskin School, Oxford University (1996-99) and the Royal College of Art, London (1999-2001). He is currently resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, where, along with London, he lives and works. The application of language is a central theme in Mellors' absurdist scripts, psychedelic theatre, film, video, performance, collage and sculpture. Mellors also plays bass guitar in the group Skill 7 Stamina 12 and is co-founder of Junior Aspirin Records. Exhibitions include: Contour 09, Mechelen, Belgium (August 2009), Tate Triennial, London (February 2009); South London Gallery (January 2009), Art Now, Tate Britain, London (2008); The Time Surgeon, Biennale de Lyon, France (2007); and Hateball, Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2006).
Nathaniel Mellors is represented by Matt's Gallery, London, and ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam Nathaniel Mellors, The Time Surgeon, 2007, Production still. Courtesy of Matt's Gallery and ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam. Photo: Karin Andreasson, © Nathaniel Mellors |
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