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8/10/2006

Two Shows

Albion, London

Mariko Mori

09 October - 22 December

Mariko Mori will be having her first solo exhibition in the UK since 1998 at the ALBION. Her exhibition will consist of an enormous 18ft pod sculpture, changing colour in co-ordination with the constellations moving overhead, four video pieces documenting the creation of, over twelve years, her Beginning of the End series, which will be on display in three suspended 6ft circular photomontages. This series documents Mori’s explorations in locations as diverse as Teotihuaca'n, Times Square, Shibuya, Giza, Docklands, Brasilia - amongst many others. In each monumental vista Mori is photographed enclosed within a transparent horizontal pod, lying serenely, as much an entity unto herself as protected and separate from her surrounds. A monograph of her work is also to be published for the exhibition.

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Lee Mingwei

Guernika in sand

11 - 15 October 2006

Coming to the forefront of the world’s attention in 2002 by accomplishing the astonishing feat of being the first pregnant man in history, Taiwanese American artist, Lee Mingwei, will once again conquer the seemingly impossible, only this time it will be no hoax. Ever intending to make a stir, Mingwei will be inspiring dialogue between creation and destruction in his next exhibition at ALBION. With care and patience Mingwei will fashion Picasso’s Guernica as a Tibetan sand painting and then repeatedly destroy and recreate it over a period of five days.

Guernica is one of the best-known images in art dealing with the theme of destruction. Its image are powerful and familiar as a response to the destruction of the town by troops during the Spanish Civil War and is considered most appropriate to use it in exploration of Mingwei’s theme of creation and destruction. With this installation at ALBION, the viewer will not only be a voyeur but an active part of the process as one chooses to destroy the piece by walking over it in order to fully view it or to merely regard it from an external perspective and thus maintain its form. For the final performance, Mingwei will sweep up the work and those present will be given a handful to throw into the Thames. Sweeping together the sand and committing it to water is part of the sand painting ritual and fulfils the cycle of creation and destruction inherent in this work.

For the past ten years Mingwei has worked as a conceptual artist, creating installations that depend on the exchange of intimate experiences between artist and viewer. This performance piece at ALBION will introduce questions of originality. The joined issues of reproduction and transformation through copying or emulating are critically important in the history of Chinese painting.

Born in Taipei in 1964 to political dissidents, Mingwei has a dual Buddhist-Catholic background. As a child he spent summers at a Chan Buddhist monastery where he learned the simple power of concentrating on daily rituals. Following this upbringing Mingwei travelled to the United States and attended a Benedictine high school in California. He went on to study Textile Arts at the California College of Arts and Crafts and completed his graduate MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 1997. Mingwei has subsequently had exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and The Los Angeles County Museum and has participated at the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial.

Performance times:

Sunrise to Sunset

11 October 07:17 - 18:16
12 October 07:19 - 18:14
13 October 07:21 - 18:12
14 October 07:22 - 18:10
15 October 07:24 - 18:08

Albion
8 Hester Road - London

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