ArtSway Xtra
In this edition:
ArtSway at 52 International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia; Special trip to Venice for ArtSway audiences, New Forest Pavilion - Local and ArtSway +10 project, New Exhibition opens at ArtSway this weekend: Rik Pinkcombe: BorderLine, ArtSway Associate Artist Updates and Exhibitions.
NEW FOREST PAVILION
Join ArtSway in Venice for the
52nd International Art Exhibition
la Biennale di Venezia
ArtSway is, for the second time, mounting an International exhibition in Venice. This time, however as an official collateral event for the 52nd International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, the world's most important public visual art event (more information about the la Biennale is available here: www.labiennale.org). This means we have a higher profile, we are included in the catalogue and we have la Biennale press office on our side.
The artists exhibiting are, as before, drawn from the residency programme. They are: Simon Faithfull, Beate GŸtschow, Igloo, Anne Hardy, Melanie Manchot and Stanza. Stanza is curated by SCAN (www.scansite.org), the new media arts organisation hosted at ArtSway. ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion is a partnership with the Arts Insitute at Bournemouth and SCAN. It is funded by Arts Council England, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Hampshire County Council and Sponsored by Hallet Independent.
Special Weekend in Venice for ArtSway audiences
15, 16 & 17 June 2007
ArtSway is offering our audiences a special weekend in Venice. While we cannot offer a full package tour, we are offering special introductions and tours to la Biennale over the weekend of 16 June. We plan an introduction to the art exhibitions at la Biennale, advice on planning visits to the exhibitions, a tour of exhibitions we have identified around Venice as unmissable and of course a tour of New Forest Pavilion. If you want further information please send an email to Melinda, who can send you an information pack about the weekend and advice on hotels and flights. La Biennale is the largest, longest running and most high profile contemporary art festival in the world. If you have not visited Venice before this is a remarkable time to see a unique city, whilst taking in the best of international contemporary visual art.
New Forest Pavilion
52nd International Art Exhibition,
la Biennale di Venezia
10 June - 1 July 2007
Palazzo Zenobio, Dorsodorio, Venice, Italy
New Forest Pavilion - Local & ArtSway +10
ArtSway, 26 May - 15 July 2007A complementary exhibition to New Forest Pavilion in Venice, this exhibition brings together a different selection of works by the artists exhibiting in Venice reflecting ArtSway's work between local and global audiences. In addition, to celebrate ArtSway's tenth anniversary, we are inviting all the artists who have exhibited at ArtSway over the last ten years to submit a small work for ArtSway+10. There will be special ArtSway Xtra events connected with this exhibition: more details to follow.
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NEW EXHIBITION at ArtSway
Rik Pinkcombe
B o r d e r L i n e
Reception for the Artist
Saturday 14 April
2pm - 4pm, with Gallery Talk at 3pm (see below)
THIS WEEKEND!
Rik PinkcombeÕs photographs explore the notion that the media saturated culture in which we currently live distorts our vision of the world that surounds us and affects our personal identities. His mixed-race background influences his work as he visually questions and considers who we are, how we perceive others and how we, in turn, are perceived. It is the consequences of these perceptions, along with the concept of not belonging to one side or to the other, and the difficulty of being classified as a type that motivated Pinkcombe to produce BorderLine. BorderLine is an exhibition of new work, commissioned by ArtSway and Autograph ABP, that investigates the border between the US and Mexico. This work both develops and compliments PinkcombeÕs previous work which examined the border between the US and Canada. Rik Pinkcombe lives and works in London.
Gallery Talk, Saturday 14 April 2007, 3pm
Rik Pinkcombe will be in conversation with David A. Bailey, Senior Curator, Autograph ABP and ArtSway Exhibitions Officer Peter Bonnell.
FREE, Booking EssentialGallery Lecture, Thursday 17 May 2007, 7pm-9pm
Migration and Contemporary Art PracticeDr Stephen Morton, University of Southampton, will discuss Rik PinkcombeÕs exhibition BorderLine, discussing migration, critical theory and a selection of artists who have explored the American and Mexican border in their work.
FREE, Booking Essential.For more details about these or any other events at ArtSway, please contact Laura McLean-Ferris on 01590 682260 x 16 or email laura@artsway.org.uk
A partnership with Autograph ABP
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Artist updates, Exhibition and Events
Simon Faithful
experience insulares
30 March - 20 May
Simon Faithfull is currently exhibiting in the major group exhibition 'experiences insulares' at Credac art centre on the outskirts of Paris. For more information visit www.credac-and-co.com He is also, as explained above, exhibiting at ArtSway's New Forest Pavilion at the 52 International Art Exhibition - la Biennale de Venezia and at New Forest Pavilion Local at ArtSway's gallery.
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Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva is developing a range of projects, including a major public art project on the East coast through Commissions East, which is awaiting funding confirmation. She is also developing a new website and is the first reserve artist for the Artist+Writers programme for the British Antarctic Survey. Should one of the selected artists drop out, Elpida will be making a challenging journey to the Antartic as artist in residence later this year.***
Alistair Gentry
Alistair Gentry has competed his residency at the the Genomics Research Centre of Edinburgh University and gave a very well attended talk at ArtSway last month about his work and his experiences. More information on Alistair's web site here
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Emilia Telese
Paranoia
You can watch a video of part of Emilia Telese's performance at the Freud Museum, hear her speaking about her work and see and some of the other events connected with this exhibition by clicking on this link: http://www.uk.current.com/watch/23822819
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Anna Best
Barbican 25 Birthday Events
2 - 3 June 2007
Anna Best has been commissioned by the Barbican Art Gallery as part of the Barbican's 25th Birthday celebrations to work within the unique context of the Barbican Gallery and the residents of the Barbican estate. Events are planned for the weekend of 2-3 June 2007.
See here for details and further information. A new publication accompanies the events.
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We are currently developing a new programme of ArtSway Xtra events through the year.
More information shortly.We hope to see you at an ArtSway Xtra event soon. Remember that all Xtra events are free to Friends of the the gallery.
If you have any questions about ArtSway Xtra, ArtSway, or the artists that we work with, please contact Laura McLean-Ferris on 01590 682260 x 16 or email laura@artsway.org.uk
Best wishes,
Laura McLean-Ferris
Marketing & Press Officer
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