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Late Opening: Thursday 2nd August until 9pm Swarms of Black Flies Make the Roses Purple presents instances of collaboration with technologies of production, particularly in terms of how contemporary artists manipulate technologies into an artistic purpose. With precedents provided through the work of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, the exhibition presents new works that investigate artisti...   [more]

Opening: July 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Daniel Turner is a Brooklyn-based artist who originally trained as a painter but has since expanded his practice beyond the conventions of the medium. In fact, his conceptual work questions the spatial dimensions of the picture plane and the ephemeral nature of painting itself. In 2006, for example, Turner burnt all the paintings that he had produced since 1997 in an action entitled Burning an Entir...   [more]

Opening: July 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Physical negotiations with material and a bold relationship to colour are central to Julia Dault’s artistic practice. Informed by, but not adhering to, Minimalism, Dault’s richly textured paintings and sculptures suggest fantastical tendencies in their manipulated materiality. Combining surprise and discovery, her paintings are multi-layered illusions that play with our sense of depth by both removin...   [more]

Opening: July 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Swiss artist Raphael Hefti plays the part of a modern-day alchemist or pseudo-scientist who seeks transformative reactions in his chosen materials. His natural curiosity aims to push a process, whether it is manually or industrially produced, to a point where technically it would be deemed a failure. Hefti's process of creating extreme effects creates a palpable and exciting tension in his work...   [more]

Opening: July 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

White Cube Bermondsey is pleased to present an exhibition by the acclaimed artist Zhang Huan. Known primarily for his rigorous and demanding performances of the 1990s, Zhang’s more recent work has consisted of sculptures and paintings made using incense ash gathered from the rituals and ceremonies performed daily at Buddhist temples in the artist’s native city of Shanghai. Entitled ‘The Mountai...   [more]

Opening: July 19th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Tate’s Young People’s Programme presents Undercurrent, a series of events, installations and interventions by audio, visual, digital and performance artists. Over eleven days the programme invites a diverse range of artists and audiences to explore the relationship and influences of subcultures upon dominant or mainstream culture. At the core is the exploration of the ‘underground’ and the...   [more]

Opening: August 23rd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

“I noticed a lightness that moved me. It probably was how things were, myself included, all of us transparent in the cadence of the world.” (Gottfried, Benn. Primal Vision. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1971) Faggionato Fine Arts is pleased to announce White River, the second London exhibition of works by Italo-American artist Tristano di Robilant. The exhibition will present 8 new glass sculptures and...   [more]

Opening: July 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This exhibition shows a series of photographs of equestrian statues from around the world. Each statue is shown paired with another in a relation that suggests their being bartered and exchanged. The idea comes from the historical term ‘under cartel’ which was a written or verbal protocol regarding the status of exchanged prisoners of war or hostages. Rather than people, Patterson’s propo...   [more]

This is part of the London Festival of Photography. Tom Jenkins is, arguably, the best sports photographer of his generation and has worked at the Guardian since 1990 and in that time has covered virtually every major sporting event and fixture. “Tom Jenkins does the business every time. He captures the brutal beauty of sport with a brilliant eye.”AP McCoy “The stunning photographs in th...   [more]

Opening: June 29th, 2012   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Uncommon Ground is an exploration of environmental interventions in contemporary photography. Inspired by the work of Keith Arnatt and Gabriel Orozco, this exhibition aims to obscure the intersection between photographs of observed reality and artistically altered reality. Here, environment is taken in its broadest sense: natural ecosystems, urban and suburban space, domestic interiors, industrial lands...   [more]

Opening: July 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, Gimpel Fils are holding an exhibition of Albert Irvin's paintings. Irvin has chosen Fidelio as the title, for a number of reasons. There is his fidelity to abstraction, a consistent abstraction in which, over the decades, the artist has been careful to eschew figuration in any form. A S Byatt observed in a text on the artist, 'It is art about experiencing the w...   [more]

Opening: July 26th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Nine internationally-renowned street artists will produce Klimt-inspired masterpieces in front of a live audience in London’s Grosvenor Gardens, on Tuesday 21st August. Situated upon plinths, the artists will create new works resonant with the influence of Klimt in the square format, as part of the Vienna Tourist Board’s campaign to celebrate the 150th birthday of the famous Viennese artist....   [more]

In asking, “who is listening?” you are at first conscious of the question as well as the sound. When the questioning penetrates deeper, you cease to be aware of it. So when a bell rings it is only the bell listening to the sound of the bell. Or to put it another way, it is the sound of yourself ringing. From: Kapleau, P. (1965) The Three Pillars of Zen. In many Oriental cultures, the bowl is...   [more]

For his first solo exhibition in the UK, Korean artist Kim Beom presents a series of works that wryly and unpredictably engage with the subject of education. Working in a deliberately low-fi style and using a variety of media including drawing, video and sculptural installations, Kim inverts cultural norms by placing objects, animals and viewers in absurd situations, and turning conventional role...   [more]

This is the first solo exhibition outside of Norway by artist Pushwagner (born Oslo, 1940), bringing together drawings, paintings and prints made over the last forty years. His visionary practice resonates with the glamour of Pop Art, the language of science fiction, the anti-materialism of the Beat poets and the hallucinations of Vincent Van Gogh. The exhibition includes his defining creation, the graph...   [more]

Opening: June 27th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM