Two exhibitions
dal 29/9/2010 al 20/11/2010
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29/9/2010
Two exhibitions
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
For the second in a series of new commissions for The Yard, Simon & Tom Bloor draw on influences from across art, design and architecture to transform the space at Modern Art Oxford. The Bloors' artworks encompass a range of approaches and are developed from research into moments of Utopian potential, from political or social events to periods of art or design history. Manfred Pernice creates objects and sculptures that consider the complex relationships between art, architecture, city-building and human stories of time and place.
Simon & Tom Bloor: Hit and Miss
For the second in a series of new commissions for The Yard, Simon & Tom Bloor will draw on influences from across art, design and architecture to transform the space at Modern Art Oxford.
The Bloors’ artworks encompass a range of approaches and are developed from research into moments of Utopian potential, from political or social events to periods of art or design history. Rather than simply celebrating such moments, the Bloors attempt to playfully address the all too human flaws and failings that underpin them. Ideas and information from seemingly diverse sources are combined as starting points for something new, creating shifts in context that encourage new relationships and alternative readings.
For Modern Art Oxford the artists will create an installation from painted wooden fencing that will act in a variety of ways – as a maze-like screening structure, as a means to create intimate resting spaces within The Yard and as a support for other new works. Using a form of ‘hit and miss’ fencing the installation will further develop themes explored in the Bloors’ previous projects that look to municipal urban and suburban architecture and landscape design, drawing on hazily familiar structural forms to explore nostalgic notions of Britain’s much maligned postwar developments.
Sitting somewhere between a garden park and interior lobby the Bloors’ project will be a space for visitors to explore and discover a further element of the installation in the form of a series of works on paper based on a selection of posters from Modern Art Oxford’s archive. Re-imagining posters for group and solo exhibitions that included artworld luminaries such as Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Carl Andre and Dan Graham, the Bloors’ posters will playfully engage their interest in appropriation, printed media and nostalgia, while offering up new interpretations for their fencing structures.
Showing concurrently with Simon and Tom Bloor, will be Manfred Pernice, 1 October – 21 November 2010.
About the Artists
Simon & Tom Bloor (both born 1973 Birmingham) live and work in Birmingham & London. Recent solo exhibitions include My Native Vale, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne;
Hey for Lubberland! Ikon, Birmingham (2009); As long as it lasts, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, (2009); Kiosk7:OudWestKiosk, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (with Gavin Wade), 2007; The Ballad of Gunpowder Joe, MOT International, London, 2007. Group exhibitions include Oneiriography, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin (2010) The Lobby, Cell Project Space, London, 2009 and Folkestone Triennial (with Nils Norman & Gavin Wade), 2008.
The Yard at Modern Art Oxford opened in May 2010. Working with acclaimed architects dRMM The Yard has created a new level entrance for the Gallery on St Ebbe’s Street, a contemporary take on the idea of a 19th-century arcade, which brings the street into the Gallery and the Gallery into the street. The Yard will change with newly commissioned works across the year and seasonally houses the Gallery’s café and bar.
dRMM
Alex de Rijke, Philip Marsh and Sadie Morgan started dRMM, a London based studio of international architects and designers, in 1995. The practice takes pride in carrying out work that is innovative, high quality and socially useful. All of dRMM's completed projects have received critical acclaim and professional recognition. Their first project, No. one Centaur Street, won eight awards including 'RIBA London Building of the Year' and the 'AJ First Building Award'. Projects include the transformation of Kingsdale School, which set new standards in the world of education architecture, and has positioned dRMM as design leaders in the field of innovation and sustainability. dRMM recently completed a new teaching wing at Clapham Manor Primary School, offering classrooms, performance space, staff facilities, reception and improved access while maximising play space. The practice is currently designing apartment housing in London and Norway.
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Manfred Pernice
Modern Art Oxford presents new and recent work by the German artist Manfred Pernice in
his first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery. This exhibition will travel from Oxford to
Dundee Contemporary Arts and then to SMAK in Ghent in 2011.
Manfred Pernice creates objects and sculptures that consider the complex relationships
between art, architecture, city-building and human stories of time and place. Formed of a
language that is immediately and distinctively recognisable, his sculptures suggest
themselves as already existing in the everyday world. This exhibition however presents
developments in Perniceʼs practice over the last three years, in particular a passage of
work the artist has come to describe as ʻSonderausstellungʼ (special exhibition).
ʻSonderaustellungʼ constitutes the creation of a new artistic strategy for Pernice, one that
provides a conceptual and physical housing in which to locate his formal, investigative
research. Describing such work as 'an exhibition within an exhibition', recent projects have
manifested themselves as more overtly domestic in their resonance, a world of the familial
as opposed to the distinct references to the public realm and the built, urban environment
that characterised his past practice.
In a relatively recent work for instance, Sonderausstellung: Wishy washy (2009),
sculptures that evoke seating and utilitarian furniture are strategically placed, domestic
lighting features prominently, the residue of food packaging and containers are overtly
displayed and even stubbed cigarette butts and empty coffee cups are encapsulated within
the work as evidence of the labour of making.
The centre-piece of the exhibition will be the re-presentation of a new work, Tutti (2010).
Referencing Pernice’s earlier ‘can’ structures or Dosen, the sculpture reveals four room-
sized quadrants, and is complete with a spiral staircase that elevates the viewer. This
sculpture as vessel will ‘house’ part of the exhibition as well as becoming the site for
various settings, its content rearticulated and modified as it journeys from place to place.
Manfred Pernice is organised by Modern Art Oxford, in collaboration with Dundee
Contemporary Arts and SMAK, Ghent. The exhibition will first be shown throughout
Modern Art Oxford's Upper Galleries, from 1 October – 21 November 2010, before
travelling to Dundee and Ghent in 2011.
A fully illustrated publication co-published by Modern Art Oxford, Dundee Contemporary
Arts and SMAK, Ghent will be available.
Showing concurrently with Manfred Pernice, will be Simon and Tom Bloor, 1 October – 21
November 2010.
Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation and the The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
(Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, ifa).
About the Artist
Manfred Pernice was born in Hildesheim, Germany in 1963; he lives and works in
Berlin.
Pernice has exhibited widely over the past two decades; his work was included in
squatting, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, 2010; Two Horizons. Works from the Collections
of Charles Asprey & Alexander Schröder, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh; Life on Mars. 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh,
2008; skulptur projekte münster 07, Munster, 2007; 50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice 2003;
documenta 11, Kassel, 2002; 49 Biennale di Venezia, Venice 2001.
Current and forthcoming group exhibitions include: The New Décor, Hayward Gallery,
2010; 28 Bienal de São Paolo, São Paolo, 2010. Recent and forthcoming solo
exhibitions include: Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; CEAAC, Strasbourg; Secession,
Vienna.
For further information and images please contact: Kayleigh Hellin, Press and Marketing
Assistant, Tel. 01865 813804, Email. kayleigh.hellin@modernartoxford.org.uk
Image: Manfred Pernice, Tutti, 2010. Photo by Andrew Phelps © Salzburger
Kunstverein
Opening 30 September 2010
Modern Art Oxford
30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP
Gallery opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday 10am – 5pm; Thursday, Friday,
Saturday 10am – 10pm; Sunday 12pm – 5pm; Closed Monday
Free Admission