Nao Matsunaga, Image from Design Week’s Website
Jerwood Makers Open JVA at Jerwood Space
A set of strong work has been produced by these five artists who each received a £7500 commission budget when they were shortlisted for this exhibition earlier this year. We were particularly keen on Nao Matsunaga’s installation. His mild and tangible surfaces and forms evoke a sense of easiness and acceptance. James Rigler’s three ‘monuments’ lie somewhere between an imitation and the real thing.
Exhibition runs until 26th August
• 14 July 2012
Pulse, 2012, Rebecca Griffiths, Image from Hoxton Art Gallery’s Website
The Pleasure Principle
Hoxton Art Gallery
Four artists who’s work responds to contemporary living and blind consumerism are exhibited in conjunction with the Hoxton Art Gallery’s first birthday. The theme of this show reminded us of Baudrillard’s concept of the gizmo, ‘the gizmo is an object that is not of any genuine real use to anyone… with no real scientific basis that they actually worked’. Our lives are filled with embellishments on necessity and these four talented artists cleverly explore the religion of shiny products, quick hits and internet zones. We have had our eye on Rebecca Griffiths since her graduation from the RCA last year, and are glad to see Hoxton Art Gallery supporting this newcomer.
HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY Hoxton Art Gallery!
Exhibition runs until 12th June
• 3 June 2012
High Plateau with Two Forms, Guy Allott, Image from the Madder139 Website
GUY ALLOTT: SUPER STATES
Madder139
Madder139 presents Guy Allott’s first solo show in London since 2006. Allott’s synthesis of landscape associated imagery at first appears discordant, but eventually settles into somewhere almost recognisable. They appear to be from times unknown. Frequently, there will be a focus point in the form of a purposeful structure or prop: these forms seem to unite with the landscape either through mutual colour or an almost transparency, allowing our acceptance of their presence.
Madder139
Private View: Thursday 17th May, 6-9pm
Exhibition runs until 30th June
• 17 May 2012
Untitled (Connecticut, NE), 2008, Edgar Martins, Image from The Wapping Project Website
Edgar Martins: This Is Not A House
The Wapping Project
Martins was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to explore the impact of the subprime mortgage industry crisis on the real estate market. Empty venues and half-finished constructions are haunted by a lack of human presence, emphasising the dependancy of space and landscape on physical content. The images highlight our tendency to fill absence with narrative. This series has already received acclaim internationally throughout its current tour.
The Wapping Project
Private View: Tuesday 8th May, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs until 30th June
• 6 May 2012
Image from Studio Voltaire’s website (courtesy of Richard Slee and Hales Gallery)
Richard Slee: Camp Futility
Studio Voltaire
Richard Slee has a marvellous talent for creating work that pogoes between scepticism and humour. After a Slee experience, you are left feeling incredibly satisfied, but somehow as if you have been seen naked in public: he knows how to make subtle digs at the ridiculousness of human nature with the simplest of combinations and alterations. Studio Voltaire has good taste.
GOOD NEWS: the other marvellous Richard (Wentworth) will be in conversation with Slee this Wednesday 2nd May (this week!) at 7pm. And guess what… IT IS FREE.
Studio Voltaire
Exhibition runs until 26th May
• 28 April 2012
Haven Her Body Was/Warren, 2011, Noemie Goudal. Image taken from her website.
Out of Focus: Photography
Saatchi Gallery
About time too: the Saatchi Gallery’s first major photography show in 11 years hits the walls (and the floors). The exhibition includes some of our favourites: Olaf Breuning, Mat Collishaw and Elina Brotherus. We are particularly excited about seeing work by Noemie Goudal, the new queen of heterotopias and Jonny Briggs, who stages unsettling yet alluring images depicting family tensions. Both recently graduated from the Royal College of Art and were rightly picked up by the Catlin Art Prize.
Saatchi Gallery
Exhibition runs from 25th April until 22nd June
• 22 April 2012
Installation View, Hans-Peter Feldmann. Image from the Serpentine Gallery’s website. © 2012 Jerry Hardman-Jones
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Serpentine Gallery
When you are at the supermarket checkout, do you ever have a good spy at what the person ahead is buying and instantly determine their entire life-story? Hans-Peter Feldmann is the kind of guy who satisfies your inner urge to create tales around others through their possessions. Visitors to his current show at the Serpentine Gallery are guaranteed to become entranced by the contents of ladies handbags spread across the tables. Feldmann lets us indulge in the ideas ‘between’ things: we fill in the gaps. We become visual-culture detectives. The perfect piece for us showed several images of car radios. The piece was entitled ‘Car Radios While Good Music is Playing’ (2004). Spot on.
Serpentine Gallery
Exhibition continues until 5th June
• 20 April 2012
November 3rd Graveyard, Laura Culham. Image from Hoxton Art Gallery’s website.
Et Cetera
Hoxton Art Gallery
What a scrumptious show this will be! The focus of Et Cetera is to seek significance in the overlooked: ‘both human detritus and the less glamorous areas of nature’. The artists find sense in material through repetitive, delicate and focused actions. The show has been curated by Tom Jeffreys, Spoonfed Arts Editor.
Hoxton Art Gallery
Private View Thursday 19th April, 7-9pm
Exhibition continues until 24th May
• 17 April 2012
Image taken from Max Ruf’s website
The desire to live in the woods
Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art
Max Ruf is definitely one to keep an eye on. Currently on the Painting course at the Royal College of Art, his short and sharp solo show in the Hockney Gallery this week will be worth a visit.
Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art (Entrance through Jay Mews)
Private View Thursday 19th April, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues until 22nd April
• 16 April 2012
Plot (Impasse), Virginia Verran, 2009 (Image from the Zeitgeist Arts Projects website)
ZAP launch exhibition: Collectible
Zeitgeist Project Space
Whether you want to start up your collection, add to it or just have a good nose at who is worth investing in, Collectible needs a visit. Curated by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley (the masterminds behind Zeitgeist Arts Projects) 68 artists exhibit work for sale between 50 and 500 Great British Pounds. How could you miss the chance to pick up an Edwina Ashton? A Fiona MacDonald? Or a Freddie Robins?
To find out more about Zeitgeist Arts Projects and Collectible, click here to read their interview with South London Art Map.
Zeitgeist Arts Projects
Private View Tuesday 17th April, 6-8.30pm
Exhibition continues until 28th April
• 15 April 2012
IslanderIslander, Robert Pratt, 2011 (Image from the Fold Gallery website)
Needle in a Cloud
Fold Gallery London
To celebrate the opening of their new space in Clerkenwell, Fold gallery present NEEDLE IN A CLOUD: an exhibition of ‘the sharp and the vast, the precise and the deliberately obscure’ (Dan Davis). This show includes the work of 12 artists. Look out for Robert Pratt’s pieces that reflect everyday idiosyncrasies. His combination of traditional ideas of sculptural practice with selected surface and iconic forms seems impressively effortless. He graduated from the RA in 2009 and had a solo show at the Josh Lilley Gallery in November/December 2011.
Fold Gallery
Private View Saturday 14th April, 5-8pm
Exhibition continues until 19th May
• 14 April 2012
Image from the Josh Lilley Gallery website
Bryn Lloyd-Evans, John Nielsen, Jonathan Trayte
We definitely recommend a visit to this show! The objects are niftily placed: Trayte’s contained-biteable pieces upstairs seamlessly flow into Nielsen’s polished artefactual assemblages, finally arriving at Lloyd-Evans more stark and reduced work: a natural conclusion to the show.
John Lilley Gallery
Exhibition continues until 18th May
• 12 April 2012
A Joyful Archipelago
10 Russian-Born Female Artists
Events in Russia are reflected on by these ten artists in new individual works. This exhibition comes at an interesting time in both Russian political history and during a period when many Russian-born female artists are coming to prominence internationally. The subtly incisive RCA graduate Yelena Popova whose work was shown in both the New Contemporaries and New Sensations exhibitions in 2011, will be featured in this show.
Guest Projects/Yinka Shonibare Space
Private View: 12th April 6-9pm
Exhibition continues: 13th-28th April
• 10 April 2012
Thomas Demand in Conversation with Joseph Grima
Do you love Thomas Demand? We do. We are very sad not to be making his talk at Nottingham Contemporary tomorrow night… BUT WAIT! There will be a LIVE STREAM! Phew…
The live stream can be accessed HERE at 7pm on Thursday 12th April
• 10 April 2012
Eyes (Part 3), detail, 2012
Image from The Approach Gallery website
Alice Channer
OUT OF BODY
This girl understands the order of substances. The material description for Channer’s piece Eyes (Part 3) states ‘digital print on spandex’. If that isn’t enough to make you pay a visit, see the SLG website (below) for more information.
South London Gallery
Exhibition continues until 13th May
• 10 April 2012
