Culture Now
dal 1/5/2014 al 1/5/2014
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Institute of Contemporary Arts
1/5/2014
Culture Now
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Gregor Muir, Louisa Buck, Toby Mott and Charlie Porter discuss the paintings, drawings and poetry of David Robilliard
ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir is joined by Louisa Buck (critic and contemporary art correspondent for The Art Newspaper), Toby Mott (artist and curator is known for his work with the artists' collective Grey Organisation in the 1980s) and Charlie Porter (writer and blogger, Men's Fashion Critic for the Financial Times) to consider the paintings, drawings and poetry of London artist David Robilliard (1952 - 1988). This event marks the launch of new ICA publication "David Robilliard: The Yes No Quality of Dreams". The ICA (until 15th june 2014) brings together a selection of paintings by Robilliard in the first UK institutional exhibition for over twenty years. These intimate paintings combine figurative elements with text taken directly from Robilliard's own poems. Coded and knowing, his evocative prose alludes to intimate sexual encounters and passing infatuations that ultimately conjure an image of 1980s queer London.