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To mark the publication of Black Dog's widely acclaimed 'Art & Text' we have curated a study exhibition in our temporary premises, celebrating the achievement of the book and its inclusion of both Simon Lewty and Simon Morley amongst the 110 artists, ranging from Marcel Duchamp to Ed Ruscha (whose current Hayward Gallery exhibition "Fifty Years Of Painting" features a Purcell Room talk by Simon Morley...
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Opening:
November 2nd
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Light is used as a symbol by cultures and religions all over the world, representing goodness, love, truth, knowledge, faith and life itself. In Hinduism, it is particularly celebrated with lamps and fireworks during Diwali, the ‘Festival of Lights’. It is also a central feature in Christian rituals, and has become an expressive medium for many Western European artists.
In 2008 the National...
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Opening:
September 28th
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present Yinka Shonibare, MBE’s fifth exhibition ‘Willy Loman: The Rise and Fall.’
“Theatricality is certainly a device in my work, it is a way of setting the stage…There is no obligation to truth in such a setting so you have the leeway to create fiction or to dream.” Shonibare in conversation with Anthony Downey. ‘Yinka Shonibare, MBE’ Pub. MCA...
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Alison Jacques Gallery is delighted to present a new interpretation of the work of acclaimed and controversialAmerican artist Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Bringing together a range of works in a variety of media, includingrarely seen collages as well as photography, the exhibition focuses on the hitherto neglected roles of religiousthemes and imagery that informed much of Mapplethorpeʼs prac...
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Opening:
October 13th
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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I turn each painting round and round like a catherine wheel til it yields - Lucy Stein Feminisms happy ending enables young, strong, empowered women to have breast implants, have casual sex and join the guys watching strippers in the bar. But is this the happy ending we want? Crafting a new language to discuss female sexuality, pleasure and aspiration, Lucy Stein challenges the pervasive visual...
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In October 1440 the Breton Knight Gilles de Rais was hung in Nantes for murdering up to two hundred youngsters at his various stately homes around north-western France. In the early 1960s Niki de Saint Phalles shooting works helped to resuscitate her from serious nervous breakdown. Her Le Chateau de Gilles de Rais (1962) is a monstrous shooting piece made from clusterings of wide-eyed dolls in a...
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Shiraz Bayjoo: Workforce
Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts)
shoreditch
Rivington Place
London EC2A 3BA, United Kingdom
+44 20 7729 9616
http://www.iniva.org
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September 17th - November 21st
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closing tomorrow
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Artist Shiraz Bayjoo transforms Rivington Place's Education Space into a temporary artist run factory this autumn. It becomes the setting for a new workforce in response to exhibitions by NS Harsha and Chen Chieh-jen.
A communal flag will be manufactured and fill the expanse of the gallery, representing the identity of the workforce and contributing to the history of industry's alliances.
Workforce...
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Iniva presents NS Harsha’s grand-scale installation Nations at Rivington Place, exhibited for the first time in the UK. Taking over the interior architecture, it questions international politics and globalisation with elegance and wit. 192 sewing machines are overlaid with calico painted flags signifying the countries that make up the United Nations.
NS Harsha has exhibited internationally, and works in a r...
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Overview
In 2003 Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-jen invited workers to return to the Lien Fu garment factory which had been closed down 7 years earlier. His emotive film is set within the context of manufacturing moving abroad in search of cheaper labour and unscrupulous owners refusing to pay retirement pensions and severance. Silently Chen Chieh-jen explores the ‘transplantation’ of product...
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