Kicking off the new year with a bang and injecting London with a little much-needed sunshine, Gina Melosi takes residence in a disused shop in the East End with a striking collection of photographs and jewellery objects exploring the notion of memory. Shot whilst travelling in Costa Rica and Nicaragua at the cusp of the millennium and exhibited here for the first time, the images present the snapshot as a fine art object to reflect upon about our past histories.
Shows & Exhibitions : Fine Art & Fine Craft
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, featuring more than 40 pieces of furniture and related objects by this protean artist, actor, and furniture-maker will be presented January 30 to April 25, 2010 at Carnegie Museum of Art. The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs is the first major museum exhibition to bring together this designer’s rich body of work. Charles Rohlfs’ (1853–1936) designs stand alongside those of better-known contemporaries such as Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright, but until now have not received the same level of analysis.
On Tuesday 5th January 2010, The London Film Museum opened its latest exhibition, Charlie Chaplin – The Great Londoner. Visitors can discover exciting new insights into the life and career ofCharles Chaplin, the boy from the London slums who won universal fame with his screen character of the Tramp, and went on to become a Knight of the British Empire.
The images in “SEEN” reflect the beauty and mystery of the natural world: moiré sand stretching to an invisible horizon, the movement of a wave breaking on the beach, a dandelion shimmering in the light, a flamingo trailing patterns in the silt. The photographs span three continents but are unified by Tina Stallard’s sensitivity to colour, light and form. Tina began her photographic career using black and white, and many of the images use a restricted range of colours, creating a profound sense of space and serenity.
Following on from Paris in November and preceding Berlin in July, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, will take place in Madrid to create a space for discovery and thought between new cinema and contemporary art at several locations: the Reina Sofia National Museum, the Spanish Cinematheque, the Tabacalera - future National Centre for Visual Arts, and the Sala Alcalá 31 of the Comunidad de Madrid.
Painting, drawing, sculpture, video, installation and performance are all media used by the artist Jim Shaw since the late 1970s, helping to put across an encyclopedic and hectic vision. Jim Shaw is an atypical figure in the Californian art world, sharing with Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley a similar desire to produce an immersive visual oeuvre aimed at exploring the dark side of the American psyche.
This summer, five internationally renowned artists of African descent will show their art on the grounds of the Nationalgalerie Berlin. El Anatsui, Zarina Bhimji, António Ole, Yinka Shonibare, and Pascale Marthine Tayou have been invited to present themselves in the various, architecturally significant buildings in which the Nationalgalerie accommodates its large collections of art from the 19th to 21st century. Their artistic treatment of the different stylistic, political, and social references will conspicuously mark the buildings and their collections during the course of the project
The solo exhibition SVEN JOHNE: REPORTS FROM THE CRACK OF DAWN brings together several of the artist's most important series of works from the past seven years and offers an opportunity to comprehensively explore the conceptual exactitude of his artistic methodology. Sven Johne (born 1976 on Rügen) pursues a conceptual approach to documentary photography. Like an investigative reporter he explores various social phenomena, researches background information, visits the places relevant to his story, and embarks on a documentation of these sites.
Rampa opens on May 11 with a one-person exhibition by artist Cengiz Çekil. This, the first comprehensive presentation of Çekil's practice, brings together a selection of his works that span three decades. In the main gallery space key pieces such as "Manifestos I-IV", "Iron Earth, Copper Sky" and "Smashed into Pieces" will be presented alongside recent reconstructions of earlier productions in an effort to restore their historical pertinence. Exhibited across the street in the Rampa project space is the new iteration of the work, "Reverse Image" that has been reconfigured by Çekil with this interior and the context of the exhibition in mind.
The Liedts-Meesen Foundation is organising its biggest biennial, update, for the third time at the Zebrastraat. This third edition promises to be an intriguing cross-section of the most impressive works from Centre Pompidou's Collection of New Media. Once again we are cooperating with an internationally renowned curator, giving New Media an exciting and contemporary edge. Following in the footsteps of illustrious artist-curators such as Jean-Marie Dallet (Fr) and Peter Weibel (Ger), curator Christine Van Assche endeavours to present a history of sound in the arts with 'body sound'.