Welcome to the February issue of ArtSway Xtra, an e-newsletter containing information about the gallery, as well as the artists we work. ArtSway Xtra offers you a deeper experience of contemporary visual arts, keeping you up-to-date with the artists we are working with on a regular basis as well as our ArtSway Xtra events.
ArtSway Xtra Coach Trip
Alistair Gentry
Magickal Realism at Colchester Arts Centre
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Alistair Gentry’s ‘Magickal Realism’ premieres at Colchester Arts Centre on Wednesday 24 February 2010.
To celebrate this opening performance, ArtSway Xtra have organised a special free coach from Tate Britain to Colchester and back.
Full details can be found here
This month, ArtSway Associates Anne Hardy and Hannah Maybank both contribute to the New Art Gallery Walsall’s 10th birthday celebrations,
Anne Hardy’s Untitled IV, Balloons, 2005 (image right) commissioned by ArtSway, will be on show until 18 April 2010 as part of the gallery’s Party! exhibition, while Hannah Maybank has made and donated a specially designed birthday card, also on show until 17 April 2010 as part of their We are ten PARTY!
More information on both projects can be found on the New Art Gallery Walsall's website
Image: Anne Hardy, Untitled IV, Balloons, 2005, courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley Gallery, London
Charlie Murphy
Charlie Murphy’s ‘The Anatomy of Desire’, supported by the ArtSway Associates programme and funded by The Leverhulme Trust, opened on Monday 8 February 2010 at text+work, the Arts University College at Bournemouth.
An exhibition and publication launching event was held on Friday 12 February 2010, just in time for Valentines! The specially commissioned score, composed by Jorge Queijo, was performed live, following a talk by Charlie on the years of research and preparation and the theories and ideas behind the exhibition.
Copies of the publication ‘The Anatomy of Desire’ can be purchased from the ArtSway bookshop or through text+work, and features specially commissioned texts by Leonore Tiefer, fellow Associate Alistair Gentry, and Luce Irigaray.
Charlie Murphy,
The Anatomy of Desire
(installation image), 2010.
Simon Faithfull
Simon Faithfull’s current exhibition takes us to Alsace, France, where he is exhibiting with Christoph Keller in Extraordinary Journeys at CRAC Alsace.
On show is Faithfull’s Escape Vehicle No.6, featuring a domestic chair as the video’s protagonist, as it is launched into space via a weather balloon. The footage follows the chair’s journey away from the earth and into space.
More information be can found by visiting Simon's website
boredomresearch
ARCO Madrid, the international contemporary art fair, opened its doors to the general public today, and features our very own Associates, boredomresearch as represented by [DAM]Berlin.
boredomresearch are showcasing new work alongside 'Lost calls of cloud mountain whirligigs' (2009). Alongside this, boredomresearch are also busy preparing to launch their first didactic version of Real Snail Mail at a school in Gijon, Spain, as part of the forthcoming group exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm at LABoral exhibition in April.
For more information please visit the boredomresearch website
boredomresearch,
Lost calls of mountain whirligigs, 2009
Other News
In other news, our programme of mentoring sessions by arts professionals to our ArtSway Associates is still going strong - Robin Klassnik, Director Matt’s Gallery, and Emilia Telese had their second meeting earlier this month, while Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva is due to meet with James Lingwood, Co-Director of Artangel in early March. Meanwhile, Simon Groom, Director of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Galleries of Scotland, has agreed to meet with Dinu Li later on in the year.
In the gallery...
6 February - 28 March 2010
Currently on show in the gallery we have Dave Lewis and his exhibition Field Work. Dave Lewis is a photographer and filmmaker who is interested in the role of the individual within society, and the impact that individual can have on a place, and the inhabitants of a place. The exhibition features Sway itself in both photographic form and on video, and next month we have an interesting talk at the gallery in connection with the themes of the show - details below.
For more information on this exhibition please click here
Art in Context: Anthropology and Field Work
Sunday 13 March 2010 at 3pm
Chris Wright, a lecturer in visual anthropology at Goldsmiths College in London, will deliver a talk at ArtSway relating to themes in the work of Dave Lewis. The talkwill cover other examples of 'field work' used by artists, and the way that these concerns with those of anthropologists. FREE: Booking Essential.
To book a place please contact Jack Lewis on 01590 682260 (ext.6) or email: jack.lewis@artsway.org.uk
Dave Lewis,
Polly and Aron at Llanidoes Carnival, mid-Wales,
C-type print 2009. © Dave Lewis 2009.
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