Three exhibitions
dal 3/2/2004 al 28/3/2004
Segnalato da
3/2/2004
Three exhibitions
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Beat Streuli, The Pallasades 05-01-01, Off-site ProjectStreuli's work usually involves unselfconscious, spontaneous images of people on the street. Lonnie Holley Do we think too much... This will be the first exhibition by African-American, self-taught artist Lonnie Holley, outside of the United States. Comprising of 30 works including paintings, sculptures and assemblages. David Batchelor Shiny Dirty. This will be the most comprehensive exhibition of work by British artist David Batchelor to date.
Beat Streuli
The Pallasades 05-01-01
Off-site Project
David Batchelor
Shiny Dirty
Second Floor Galleries
Lonnie Holley
Do we think too much...
First Floor Galleries
In 2001 Ikon Gallery commissioned Swiss artist Beat Streuli to make a video in Birmingham. The Pallasades 05-01-01 depicts the movement of people on the ramp from this shopping complex to New Street in slow motion.
Streuli's work usually involves unselfconscious, spontaneous images of people on the street. Their gestures and facial expressions communicate much about a particular time and place and yet paradoxically they have a global identity.
This off-site project is situated in the window of the former Tower Records store at 5 Corporation Street, Birmingham. Daily 4pm-12am.
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Lonnie Holley
Do we think too much...
This will be the first exhibition by African-American, self-taught artist Lonnie Holley, outside of the United States. Comprising of 30 works including paintings, sculptures and assemblages.
Holley's practice is a rich vocabulary of symbolic imagery, dense metaphoric abstraction and lyrical figuration that has been developed over a twenty five year period through the construction and re-construction of a self-made environment cum sculpture garden. As Holley explains, "art is just things that one has used and thrown away and someone saw something in it, enough to record about it or speak about in life".
Littered with the rusting carcasses of cars, consumer and industrial debris, Holley's sculptures and installations, weathered by the elements, worked and re-worked, are assemblages of twisted wire, industrial sandstone and various found objects. Recalling vernacular, African traditions of the Yard Show and the Bottle Tree, Holley's work embodies a similar spiritual charge carrying a highly personal internal logic and offering a compelling narrative that connects its many disparate elements.
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David Batchelor
Shiny Dirty
This will be the most comprehensive exhibition of work by British artist David Batchelor to date. It will convey the artist's preoccupation with colour, as something ubiquitous and yet essentially indescribable,
Batchelor makes various kinds of structures, often assemblages of second-hand components, which function as foils for the lightness of light. They are manifestations of colour. Perhaps Batchelor's most impressive work to date is his Spectrum of Brick Lane, featured in Tate Britain's recent Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, a tower of light boxes.
Batchelor's reference to Brick Lane is at once local and multi-cultural, smart in its unsmartness (as this is at the opposite end of the spectrum to, say, Park Lane), absolutely accepting the aesthetic impression that this place makes now. A street full of sari and bagel shops, Indian/Bangladeshi restaurants, bars and art galleries. In this respect Batchelor's work constitutes an abstract impressionism, a synthesis of the shapes and colours of a metropolitan environment - like blank advertisements - and, at the same time, unashamed allusions to a post-war (heroic) modernism as epitomised by artists such as Mark Rothko.
Image: Beat Streuli, The Pallasades 05-01-01 2001
Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace
Birmingham B1 2HS, UK
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