Plus 1 - Chloe Le Tissier

Jaya Mansberger has offered here Plus 1 invite to Chloe  Le Tissier: 


In Chloe Le Tissier’s paintings animals are depicted in imagined landscapes juxtaposed from photos and magazines, and from life drawing and memory. On closer inspection the creatures do not belong to the landscapes, they are at odds with their surroundings, for example a lone penguin in a forest or a monkey and parrot perching on the back of a dog on a pink cliff path. Through these magical and playful scenarios a sense that something has just happened or is just about to happen is invoked. Also central to Chloe’s work is the bringing together of more abstract mark making with realistic depiction, which contributes to the ambiguous and dream-like atmosphere in the paintings. 

Plus 1- Matt Blackler

A Day At The Frontier. Matt Blckler

Just thought we would keep you updated with another artists to be part of our Plus 1 exhibition in January.  We are pleased to introduce Matt Blackler the Plus 1 invite of Wayne Adams.


Blackler's practise often explores an absurd logic, developed with a relation to objects and processes commonly found in society, these are altered through labour intensive and outmoded techniques to serve a warped master-plan. 

Plus 1

Heavenly Bodies. Jaya Mansberger. Oil on canvas

Working on our first exhibition for 2012:
Plus 1.  Tuesday 10th January - Friday 27th January. Old Fire Station.

Three selected artists have been offered a ‘Plus 1’  to invite another artist of their choice to exhibit alongside them in this uniquely created show.   

We are starting to select the work and are excited to be presenting these amazing paintings by Oxford artist Jaya Mansbereger.

Panorama

Iceberg in Mist, Eisberg im Nebel
1982. 70 cm x 100 cm. Oil on canvas

Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Covering nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern  is a major retrospective exhibition that brings together together significant works from his remarkable career. An amazing colletion of  work including a couple of my favourite glass sculptural pieces.

The works together give a rich insight into the diversity of Richter’s practice and why his ideas and techniques have been so influential on painters over the past half-century. The challenge of photography as a means of image making informs many of the works, and  more obliquely his formative experiences of two totalitarian states.

His works do not attempt to describe the world around us though often they reflect it, but rather to explore the technologies of this representation and the ways in which they inflect our perception. In his exploration of these technologies painting remains a pre-eminent tool. As such, probably no other artist has done more to sustain the relevance and immediacy of painting as a mdium over the past fifty years.

ArtSelector: Issue 7- The Launch Edition

We have been invited to guest edit this month's issue of the ArtSelector online magazine, featuring the current work and ideas of a selection of artists we've worked with over the past few years.

Have a read

The Shape of Things to Come?

I generally feel underwhelmed visiting the Saatchi Gallery exhibitions, but this work The Milky Way by Björn Dahlem played heavily on my penchant for fluorescent tubes.

Björn Dahlem makes room-sized sculptures that represent abstract concepts of space and matter. His creations are based not on stability, but on fragility which he sees as the defining condition of human knowledge. His low-tech wood and light assemblages allude to cosmic theories and philosophy, re-imagining the ways the universe is understood in startlingly simplified terms.

GARAGE

I know, I know it has been ages, and the summer is now pretty much over. But we have been up to stuff, promise. The first of our highlights was David MacDairmid's architectural installation as part of the GARAGE exhibition hosted by Garage for the Edinburgh Arts Festival.  A beautiful almost ephemeral line sculpture that weaves it's way through from the interior of the exhibition space through the window and into the garden.

Presenting work since 2006, GARAGE invited a series of projects from selected artists that were researched, developed and then exhibited in August 2011. Selected UK-based international artists exhibited site-specific, collaborative work, developed during a series of micro-residencies including new work by Rebecca Key, Sarah Kenchington, Holly Fulton, Bob Moyler, Belinda Gilbert Scott, Ailie Rutherford, David MacDiarmid, Kirsten Welsh, Grimes & Jones, Sharon Quigley, Thomas MacGregor, Owen Davison, Kirsten Welsh, Jo Arksey, Christine Hilditch and Emma Bowen.

This year also featured The Pip Caravan, a magical mobile Puppet Theatre – from Sokobauno.

Northumberland Street North West Lane, EH3 6JQ

07917 668 044

www.edinburghnewtowngarage.blogspot.com

Apologies...

Sorry, we haven't posted anything interesting in the last month. I have been very slack, apologies.  I promise to dazzle you in the next week or so with some awesome, inspiring art. Or failing that something funny!

Summer Sights & Sounds

Having been on a much needed holiday, just thought we would update you with a few things we've seen and done, so, here you go!

Blessing Force at Truck

Blessing Force presented a stage of art installation and music at this year's TRUCK festival. With sculptural works dotted around performing musicians, alongside take-away art in the form of intriguing wristbands and illustrated stickers Looking forward too seeing more in Oxford from this exciting community of artists, musicians & writers.

Immediate Territory Selection

We are currently in deliberation  and discussion over the selection of artists to exhibit in the first curated exhibition and one day art event at Magdalen Road Studios, Immediate Territory. The caliber of applications was very high and successful applicants will be informed shortly.

For more information and updates see the exhibition page on the Magdalen Road Studios website.

Casa Da Musica

Although we didn't get the chance to see a performance here, we did have a look around this inspirational piece of archiiecture

Rem Koolhaas & Ellen van Loon - Office for Metropolitan Architecture's Casa da Música, was conceived to mark 2001, the year in which Porto was Cultural Capital of Europe, and it is the first new building in Portugal to be entirely dedicated to music - to the presentation and public enjoyment of music, to music education and to the creation of music.

RUSKIN DEGREE SHOW 2011

Will be sure to be attending this on Friday, looks like another strong collection of graduates.

25 - 26th June 12pm - 6pm
Private View 24 June 6pm - 11pm
The Old Power Station, Arthur Street, OX2 OAS

Aslinn Mcnamara / Annabel Bertie / Anya Aleksandrova / Claire-Louise Shifrin / Emma Mccormick-Goodhart / Flo Mather / Jack Steven / James Sutton / Kelly Dixon / Kinga Lubowiecka/ Kira Freije / Louis-Jack Horton-Stephens / Mai Tran / Matthew Morris / Penny Andrea / Peter Shenai / Poppy Illsley / Rowan Fuggle / Svetlana Grishina /
Thomas Watson / Tom Williams 

Moths' Wings by Lisa Busby

O3 Gallery
Sunday 26th June 2011, 11am-4pm

This extraordinary artwork is a Song, Performance and Installation that attempts to explore the complex relationship between the domestic interior spaces of our own creation and natural world; with actual locations and illusory ones. On this day you will witness the artwork in its full glory as Lisa inhabits her ‘hand-made’ environment and invites you to join her!

Read more about Lisa and Sleeps in Oysters on their website here.

Call for project proposals: IMMEDIATE TERRITORY

Magdalen Road Studios' IMMEDIATE TERRITORY is a one day art exhibition taking place on 29 October 2011 in Oxford's Magdalen Road. It will showcase works that take the perception of the multi-faceted, often disparate realities of the city as their subject matter, either directly or metaphorically. The goal of the exhibition is to create a one day art show which is a complex and contradictory, therefore surprising and intellectually challenging reflection of the city. For more information see the exhibition page on the Magdalen Road Studios website

Final deadline for receiving applications is 30 June 2011. Please email a CV, a project proposal (single A4 sheet maximum) and visual support material for your project (documentation of past projects - no more than 5 photographs; and/or sketches or plans - no more than 5 images) to katalin@magdalenroadstudios.com . Applications in an electronic format only . Please keep checking their website for further details.

A One Man Pecha Kucha

Join Matt Clark in a visual account of his week-long residency in the Modern Art Oxford Project Space. Using the unique Pecha Kucha format, Clark will present 20 slides, each with a 20 second description, to give you an informal and fast-paced taster of the ideas behind the work of this exciting emerging artist.

Come along from 7:30pm for a drink and a chance to talk to the artist.

WHEN: Thursday 12th May from 7:30pm. 

WHERE: Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford. OX1 1BP 

This is a FREE event, but places are limited please book through Modern Art Oxford on 01865 813800

One day left to see Planning for Paradise!

Last chance to see Planning for Paradise.

5 - 7 May, 2011
Thur - Sat 12-5pm
The Project Room. Jericho Community Centre. 33a Canal Street. Oxford. OX2 6HB


Planning for Paradise poses the question: What are the aesthetic trends of protest and social activism today?


Taking contemporary examples of social activism and radical conservatism as a point of departure, Louis Jack, Peter Shenai, James Sutton and Thomas Watson, four final year students at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, collaborate on an installation entitled Planning for Paradise at The Project Room, Jericho between 4th and 7th May.

 
An assimilation of works in a variety of media deal with issues of cultural unrest, specifically focusing on discourse surrounding British education. Planning for Paradise will address the themes of critical impotence, authorship and the space of image production and consumption. 

Matt Clark, Project Space Residency at Modern Art Oxford

Matt Clark is safely installed in the Modern Art Oxford Project Space and will open to the public today at 11am.

In partnership with Modern Art Oxford, Launch Collaborative present new sculptures and work in progress by artist Matt Clark in the gallery’s Project Space. Building fabled narratives, Clark constructs spaces and objects that are wholly reflective and often psychologically charged and mysterious, that perhaps could no longer exist without the stories they embody.

Breaking down the barriers between production and display, Clark will be working in the Project Space throughout his residency and available to discuss his ideas with the public from 11am to 5pm daily, 12noon – 5pm on Sunday.


6 - 14 May, 2011
Tue - Sun 11-5pm
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford. OX1 1BP 

Angela De La Cruz at Lisson Gallery

We went to visit this last week...came away inspired...

'De la Cruz’s work is both unapologetically raw and darkly humorous, possessing a physicality that is as much influenced by the work of comics such as Jacques Tati, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd as it is by the visceral nature of Goya’s painting. Through violent interventions she anthropomorphises her work, manipulating and deconstructing her canvases and materials so that they appear broken, crumpled and collapsed. Twisted and deflated, her works lie as crushed or crumpled bodies on the gallery floor and wall.'

Paper Girl Oxford

A brilliant idea from the Oxford Cycle Workshop folk: Paper Girl is a celebration of Art, Bicycles and the act of giving. The ride part involves riding around our beautiful city and give away bundles of art to members of the public, for free. First they need to collect some art from the people of Oxford so they are asking everyone to submit art work (the submission deadline is April 29th). They will exhibit everything they receive, and throw a big party on May 6th (the day before the ride). The morning of the ride they will roll the art works into groups in preparation for distributing. Last year Paper Girl Manchester gave away over 800 pieces of art in 212 rolls by bicycle, to random people on the streets of Manchester. This year Oxford is getting involved and running a Paper Girl ride too... From drawings, doodles to photography and screen prints to painting, submit up to 10 pieces of work to be part of Papergirl Oxford. Every artist will be featured in the exhibition at Oxford Cycle Workshop Training Centre on Glanville Road. To submit work drop it in, or post it to Papergirl Oxford, Oxford Cycle Workshop Training Centre, Ashlar House, Glanville Road Oxford OX4 2DD Work should be between A4 and A1 in size. Please write your name, url and Paper Girl Oxford on your submission. By submitting work you are consenting to your work being exhibited by Paper Girl Oxford and given out free of charge to the public as part of the Cycle Oxford Festival 2011. Deadline: 29th April 2011 (don't forget)

Planning For Paradise

Planning For Paradise  
5 - 7 May, 2011
Thur - Sat 12-5pm
The Project Room. Jericho Community Centre. 33a Canal Street. Oxford. OX2 6HB

Preview: Wednesday 4th May. 5:30-8:30pm

Taking contemporary examples of social activism and radical conservatism as a point of departure, Louis Jack, Peter Shenai, James Sutton and Thomas Watson, four final year students at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing, will collaborate on an installation entitled Planning for Paradise at The Project Room, Jericho between 4th and 7th May.

An assimilation of works in a variety of media will deal with issues of cultural unrest, specifically focusing on discourse surrounding British education. Planning for Paradise will address the themes of critical impotence, authorship and the space of image production and consumption. More details comming soon.

Editions of You

Went to the opening of this last week, head down to the O3 and take a look...

Taking the form of a gallery exhibition, live gigs, talks and happening, over the course of a month Editions of You celebrates and showcases self-publishing and self-releasing musicians and the handmade editions and releases they create. It explores the history, politics and creative processes of these forms of self-publishing in the music and arts worlds; providing an opportunity to celebrate the cultural lineage of these forms whilst creating a forum for relevant contemporary musicians and artists to present their work.

Editions of You

Handmade Music and Zine Fair
Oxford Castle | Saturday 9th April, 11am – 6pm

Hosted in the beautiful surroundings of the Oxford Castle grounds, and under the shelter of an olde-y world-y striped marquee, this fair will provide live music, workshops, and other happenings alongside the all important handmade music and zine stalls! Pop down to buy music and publications you won’t find in the shops….

 Live talks, gigs and new release launches

O3 Gallery | Thursdays 31st March, 7th  April,14th April, 21st April, 6 – 9pm

Anthony McCall - ‘Vertical Works’ at Ambika P3, University of Westminster.

Sprüth Magers Berlin London presents a major solo exhibition by Anthony McCall  featuring ‘Vertical Works’ at Ambika P3, University of Westminster.

Over the past five years McCall has explored solid-light works that are oriented vertically – projecting downwards from the ceiling onto the floor, forming 10-metre tall, conical ‘tents’ of light, with a base of about 4 metres. Here, the projected line-drawing on the floor is, quite literally, the footprint of the work, with the three-dimensional ‘body’ rising up from the floor and finally narrowing to a point at the lens of the projector, well-above one’s head. From the point-of-view of the observer, the vertical pieces create a profoundly different type of encounter. Four of these works, are on display in the UK for the first time, presented as a single installation in the Ambika P3 exhibition space. The works are You and I (II)Breath III (2005), Skirt (I)(2010) and Meeting You Halfway (2009) (2005-11).

Gallery website

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Thanks Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain

Having a few exhibition planning problems at the moment, with our exhibition planned to open this week now put back until later in the year.

We will keep you informed of any developments and rest assured you will be invited to the opening night!

Player Player Player as Poppy Sabire

If you get the chance go and check out this exhibition you should. Player Player Player opens at Poppy Sabire Gallery on the 11th March.

Sputnik at Modern Art Oxford

Bang. Crash. Thump. Sputnik presents ‘De/Install.’ A group exhibition of works by finalists at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, at Modern Art Oxford. The exhibition title alludes to the hidden activities of art institutions between their shows. During this exhibition, a live de-install in Modern Art Oxford’s upper galleries will become the focus of works in a variety of media. Performances, talks and other events will accompany ‘De/Install’, interrogating the same theme. 

Modern Art Oxford will be open until 19:00 for the opening on Tuesday. Expect performance!

Also, Richard Wentworth will be talking at MAO at 18:00 on Friday 25th! Free of charge. All welcome.

Sputnik is an Oxford-based collaborative dedicated to the direction of artistic programmes: Exhibitions, events, projects, conversations and more. 

A History of Sound Art

Listen Up! went to see and hear Joel Cahen's presentation on his recent Wet Sounds installation series along side an airing of a great new composition A History of Sound Art, 12/02/2011 at Modern Art Oxford

An insightful retrospective into the craft of sound and its development as an artistic practice.

A History of Sound Art is an engaging and educational 85 min stereo audio journey from the man "more responsible than any one else for creating the modern world" Thomas Edison,"No one did more to shape the physical/cultural make up of present day civilization", by inventing the phonograph & recording, through to the winner of this years Turner Prize, Susan Philipsz.

A History of Sound Art audibly plots the development of the media through snippets of Dada & Futurist noise instruments, the first electronic music for magnetic tape, with flashes of Fluxus compositions and artist's sound-scapes.

Composed and Arranged by J Milo Taylor
Mixed by Joel Cahen

Commissioned by Newtoy.

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