Charlotte's Weekly Round-Up

This week we have been flooded with invitations to other events! Please find details below.
ROYAL ACADEMY SCHOOLS EVENT
The schools patrons have kindly invited the CC to attend a drinks reception for the graduating year at the Schools. Four students from across the Academy disciplines will be on hand to discuss their work and this is a wonderful opportunity to meet the graduating class.
The event is on Tuesday May 25th 6.30-8.30, do drop me an email if you wish to attend.

MANIFESTEN
As I mentioned last week our favorite concept chef Caroline Hobkinson has teamed up with Trolley Gallery (who so kindly hosted the Contemporary Circle for breakfast before our East End gallery tour in March) to produce a pop-up restaurant in June. The event will be a collaboration with gallery artists and Hobkinson, beginning with a concert led by sound artist Ian Giles on the Boundary Estate Bandstand. Participants will also walk away with limited edition works by Boo Saville and Henry Hudson. The event is really not to be missed – further details are attached. Do contact the gallery to reserve your place, CC members are being given advance notice but it will be advertised this week and spaces will go fast.

AGNES MARTIN
Timothy Taylor Gallery have extended an invitation to Contemporary Circle members to join them for their lunch and lecture next Wednesday 19th May. Andreas Leventis will introduce the exhibition in a short informal lunch time lecture. Martin’s work was often referred to as Minimalist but she actually considered herself to be a part of the male dominated Abstract Expressionist movement. Make your own mind up next Wednesday at 12.30pm.
Timothy Taylor Gallery
15 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EX

THE ARTIST PENSION TRUST
Being a jobbing artist can be tough even if you are selling a lot of work. The Art Newspaper reports on a group of artists including Roger Hiorns and Mike Nelson who are investing in their own Pension Fund.
TACITA DEAN RA
Dean’s new film installation “Craneway Event” opens at Frith Street Gallery tomorrow. CC members will remember seeing her work in Folkestone two years ago. The two hour video piece is the result of Dean’s collaboration with the Merce Cunnigham dance company and was to be Cunnigham’s last collaboration before his death.
Craneway Event

13 May 2010 – 23 June 2010

Frith Street Gallery

7-18 Golden Square, London W1F 9JJ



EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
John Gerrard at Canary Wharf Tube Station
I know I’ve mentioned him before but I really think John Gerrard is a truly fantastic young artist. Tomorrow sees the opening of a new site specific work at Canary Wharf tube station. As a part of Transport for London’s innovative art programme the artist will exhibit a large-scale projection of Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas) 2008 .

Projected on a 12m x 8m wall specially constructed inside the ticket hall, Oil Stick Work will develop in real time over a 30 year period. At the centre of the work is an industrial grain silo situated in open prairieland. This vista is constructed from collected digital photographs and topographies of an existing American landscape, mapped onto carefully reconstructed 3D forms. A human actor, Angelo Martinez, arrives for work every day at dawn and departs at sunset. His daily task is to paint a precise one metre square on the facade of the silo with an oil stick.

Over the 30 year course of the work Angelo will paint the entire building black, to form a silhouette at the heart of the landscape. In 2038, his work completed, he will leave and not return. Inserted into the foundations of the vast Canary Wharf financial complex, this virtual representation of an agri-industrial landscape and Angelo's labours are juxtaposed with the activity above ground.

Location
Canary Wharf Underground station

Dates
Public exhibition: 14 May 2010 – 14 May 2011