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.

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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!