Dear Contemporary Circle,
Summer rolls and there's plenty to see and do in London.
MARTIN CREED IN PICCADILLY
Hauser & Wirth continues its outdoor sculpture programme with Martin Creed's 'Work No. 700' (2007), three progressively slimmer steel I-beams balanced on top of each other. The rusted steel I-beams are twelve metres long and neatly stacked, discarding their previous functionality to form a whole in keeping with Creed's distinctive 'artistic logic'.
Hauser & Wirth Outdoor Sculpture
Southwood Garden, St James's Church, 197 Piccadilly, London
6 September 2010 - 8 January 2011
BILLY CHILDISH AND JEAN WAINWRIGHT
As some of you will know, the Contemporary Circle Board have kindly paid for the production of a pilot run of a new audio archive for the Royal Academy library. The hope is that it will be a record of interviews with all living Royal Academicians that will be donated to the archive for research and posterity. Dr Jean Wainwright is advising and coordinating the project. She is a critic and audio/visual expert who also produces Art Newspaper TV. Click here: http://www.theartnewspaper.tv/content.php?vid=1186 to see her interviewing painter Billy Childish at Art Basel 41 after the success of his recent solo show at the ICA.
ART WORLD BITES BACK
Further to my previous update, with the threat of more cuts to arts institutions Sir Nicholas Serota led an envoy of arts leaders to the DCMS last week to ask for a more realistic approach to government support for the arts. With the visual arts enjoying a boom period under the Labour Government many wonder what Jeremy Hunt and Ed Vaizey will do to prevent the potentially devastating affects that 40% cuts could produce. Will Gompertz, Arts Editor at the BBC and former Tate Big-Wig examines further here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/willgompertz/2010/07/arts_funding_where_will_the_cu.html
ARTISTS' CORACLE REGATTA
Part boat race, part performance, join artist Harry Meadows in Hackney on August 1st and race for the artist designed trophy. 2pm-6pm, prizes and hopefully some sunshine! Invitation attached.
EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
INTERSTICE TESTBED1
Interstice: a small crevice or interval between objects or events. Interstice is an exhibition of new works by Andrew Curtis, Michael Hall, Flora Parrott and Steven Scott; each artist developing a series of individual responses to the opportunities afforded by the TestBed1 project space. Consisting of diverse approaches to the use of photographic prints, text, sculptural forms and video projections, the show will evolve over time as the work is subject to an ongoing process of refinement; all four artists responding to new proximities, forming new alignments and enhancing shifts in the potential reading of their original intentions. The title of the show indicates an awareness of 'that which sits between', and acknowledges that conceptual localities will be addressed and common ground revealed, ensuring that this is a group show that becomes more than the sum of its parts.
Project Space, 33 Parkgate Road, Battersea, London SW11 4NP
Saturday 17th July until Friday 23rd July, 11 am - 6 pm
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