Art Noticeboard: July 2018

Monday 30 July 2018

Memory Palace - White Cube: Mason's Yard (until 15 September) and Bermondsey (until 2 September)

Runa Islam, Stare Out (Blink), 1998 (Still from 16mm film - 3 mins.)

Memory Palace is at White Cube, Mason's Yard (until 15 September) and Bermondsey (until 2 September)
From the White Cube website:
'Memory Palace' is a major group exhibition extending across White Cube’s London galleries in Bermondsey and Mason’s Yard.
Featuring more than 90 recent works by over 40 artists 'Memory Palace' seeks to inspire reflections on the forms and themes of memory. The exhibition’s architecture leads the viewer through six aspects of memory: Historical (at Mason's Yard), Autobiographical, Traces, Transcription, Collective and Sensory (at Bermondsey).
See here for details of the Historical section and here for the remainder. See here, too, for an exhibition guide and here for a virtual tour of the Mason's Yard exhibition.
Artists featured are:
(at Mason's Yard)
Michael Armitage, Georg Baselitz, Theaster Gates, Mona Hatoum, Anselm Kiefer, Ibrahim Mahama, Julie Mehretu, Magnus Plessen, Doris Salcedo
(at Bermondsey)
Franz Ackermann, Etel Adnan, Darren Almond, Ellen Altfest, Christine Ay Tjoe, Miroslaw Balka, Georg Baselitz, Tracey Emin, Gilbert & George, Antony Gormley, Andreas Gursky, David Hammons, Mona Hatoum, He Xiangyu, Robert Irwin, Runa Islam, Sergej Jensen, Rachel Kneebone, Imi Knoebel, Elad Lassry, Jac Leirner, Liu Wei, Liza Lou, Ibrahim Mahama, Christian Marclay, Josiah McElheny, Beatriz Milhazes, Harland Miller, Sarah Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Virginia Overton, Eddie Peake, Magnus Plessen, Jessica Rankin, Raqib Shaw, Haim Steinbach, Fred Tomaselli, Jeff Wall, Cerith Wyn Evans
Reviews:
Laura Cumming (The Observer)
Mark Hudson (The Telegraph)
Ben Luke (Evening Standard)

Imi Knoebel, Ort-Rosa, 2013

Harland Miller, I’ll Never Forget What I Can’t Remember, 2018

Eddie Peake, A Traumas, 2018

Antony Gormley, Into the Light, 1986-7

Liu Wei, Purple Air 2017 No.1, 2016-17

Magnus Plessen, Untitled, 2017

Mona Hatoum, Hot Spot (stand), 2018

Tracey Emin, I came here For you, 2018

Installation view with Anselm Kiefer, Left Wing, Right Wing, 2018 (right) and Julie Mehretu, Ghosthymn, 2017 (left)

Sunday 29 July 2018

Animals & Us - Turner Contemporary, Margate (until 30 September 2018)

Candida Höfer, Zoologischer Garten Paris II,1997

Animals & Us is at Turner Contemporary, Margate, until 30 September 2018.
From Turner Contemporary website:
Animals & Us is a major exhibition exploring artists’ reflections on the relationship between humans and other animals.
At a time when scientists warn that humans may be causing the sixth mass extinction on earth, how do we see and relate to other animals?
Focusing on contemporary and 20^th century artists and including historical artworks and artefacts, Animals & Us explores our lives and encounters with animals, and how these have been reflected in art.
Animals painted in prehistoric caves were the first subjects of art, reflecting our closeness to them. The artworks in this exhibition explore both our closeness and distance to animals, from our relationships with our pets, to zoos and animals as food.
Artists are using animal symbolism and creating human-animal hybrids. They are staging animal encounters, investigating animal intelligence, and questioning the human-animal divide.
Installed across all Turner Contemporary’s first floor galleries, Animals & Us encompasses a wide range of media, from painting and sculpture to video and installation. Drawing on subjects from biology and evolution, to anthropology and technology, it asks questions about how we relate to or differentiate ourselves from other living beings.
Artists featured: Cory Arcangel, Keith Arnatt, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Beuys, William Burch, Marc Chagall, Marcus Coates, Mark Dion, Charlotte Dumas, Tracey Emin, Barry Flanagan, Laura Ford, Lucian Freud, Henri Gaudier Brzeska, Conradi Gesneri, Laura Gustafsson & Terike Haapoja, Paul Hazelton, Mishka Henner, Candida Höfer, Andy Holden, Marguerite Humeau, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Permindar Kaur, Laura Knight, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Stephen Melton, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso, Kananginak Pootoogook, Beatrix Potter, Stephanie Quayle, Paula Rego, Michal Rovner, Khvay Samnang, Roelandt Savery, Raqib Shaw, Ernest Howard Shepard, Maria Sibylla, Shimabuku, Gilbert Soest, George Stubbs, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, JMW Turner .
Reviews:
Waldemar Januszczak (blog/Sunday Times)
Alastair Sooke (The Telegraph)
Hannah Duguid (Independent)
Jonathan Jones (The Guardian)

Bronze standing statuette of goddess Bastet from the Egyptian late period, 600BC-332BC (From Sigmund Freud’s collection of Egyptian figures)

Joseph Beuys, I Love America and America Loves Me, 1974 (Still from film - watch film here)

Mark Dion, Mobile Wilderness Unit, 2006

Charlotte Dumas, Orion II (Retrieved Series), 2011

Barrry Flanagan, Hare & Helmet II (foreground; photographs by Charlotte Dumas in background)

Mishka Henner, Coronado Feeders, Dalhart, Texas, 2012

J.M.W. Turner, Two Gun Dogs, 1809

George Stubbs, Bay Hunter by a Lake, 1787

Conrad Gesner, African elephant, from Historiae Animalium, 1551-8

Terracotta statuette of horse (From Sigmund Freud’s collection)

Thursday 19 July 2018

Tacita Dean: Landscape - RA (until 12 August 2018)

Tacita Dean working on The Montafon Letter, Los Angeles, 2017

Tacita Dean: Landscape is at the Royal Academy until 12 August 2018
From the RA website:
Tacita Dean’s interest in landscape phenomena has taken her around the world: from the unspoilt landscape of Bodmin Moor in England to the open rangelands of Wyoming in the American West to film a rare solar eclipse. Dean is a champion of photochemical film, yet her wide-ranging practice extends across a multitude of mediums.
In the newly opened Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, [Dean] will explore “landscape” in its broadest sense: intimate collections of natural found objects, a mountainous blackboard drawing and a series of cloudscapes in chalk on slate created especially for these spaces will draw you into Dean’s vision. The highlight of the exhibition will be a major new, experimental 35mm film, Antigone, shown as two simultaneous cinemascope projections. This quasi-narrative film features writer/poet Anne Carson and actor Stephen Dillane and combines multiple places, geologies and seasons into a spectacular cinematographic frame using the same masking technique first developed by Dean for her Tate Modern Turbine Hall project FILM (2011).
It was at the RA that the likes of Constable, Gainsborough and Turner championed the genre of landscape painting. Tacita Dean takes up this legacy in immensely beautiful and poetic works that ask us to slow down and consider our place in human, geological and cosmic temporal scales.
Reviews:
Adrian Searle (Guardian)
Matthew Collings (Evening Standard)

Tacita Dean, Majesty, 2016

Tacita Dean, Quarantania, 2018

Tacita Dean, still from Antigone, 2018

Tacita Dean, Landscape, installation view, RA

Tuesday 17 July 2018

Modern Nature: British Photographs from the Hyman Collection - The Hepworth Wakefield (until 22 April 2019)

Daniel Meadows, National Portrait (Three Boys and a Pigeon), 1974

Modern Nature: British Photographs from the Hyman Collection - The Hepworth Wakefield (until 22 April 2019)
From the Hepworth Wakefield website:
For the first time in human history, more people are living in urban environments than in the countryside, yet the impulse to seek out nature remains as strong as ever.
This new exhibition of photographs by leading British photographers such as Shirley Baker, Bill Brandt, Anna Fox, Chris Killip, Martin Parr and Tony Ray-Jones explores our evolving relationship with the natural world and how this shapes individuals and communities.
Drawn from the photography collection of Claire and James Hyman, Modern Nature includes around 60 photographs taken since the end of the Second World War, through the beginnings of de-industrialisation to the present day.
The exhibition explores the merging of urban and rural landscapes, the rapid expansion of cities and the increasingly intrusive management of the countryside. The works on display are by turns poetic and humorous, occasionally absurd.

Bill Brandt, Top Withens, West Riding Yorkshire,1945

Shirley Baker, Abandoned Car, 1961

Paul Hill, Legs over High Tor, Matlock, 1975

Keith Arnatt, A.O.N.B. (Area of Outstanding natural Beauty), c.1982

John Davies, Monkwearmouth, Colliery, Sunderland, Co. Durham, 1983

Martin Parr, New Brighton, Merseyside, from "The Last Resort", 1983-86, c.1985

Mark Power, HEBRIDES Friday 27 August 1993, from "The Shipping Forecast", 1993

Simon Roberts, Red Road Flats, Balornock, Glasgow, 2014, 2014

Simon Roberts, Ferrybridge Power Station, Knottingly, West Yorkshire, 2016, 2016

Sunday 15 July 2018

New Brighton Revisited (Martin Parr, Ken Grant and Tom Wood) - The Sailing School, New Brighton (until 25 August 2018)

Tom Wood

New Brighton Revisted [Martin Parr, Ken Grant and Tom Wood] is at The Sailing School, Marine Point, New Brighton until 25 August 2018
From the Open Eye Gallery website:
This group show brings together for the first time the New Brighton pictures of internationally renowned British photographers Martin Parr, Ken Grant and Tom Wood. Showing in the town from which the pictures stemmed, this innovative exhibition records 3 decades of New Brighton through the eyes of the 3 photographers as they lived and worked in the town.
Parr, Grant and Wood found themselves basing their early lives and careers within the New Brighton area. All three discovered a fascination and beauty in the town – within its streets, its seafront, its visitors and its residents. Each photographer captured, in their individual styles, moments of the town’s life from the late 1970s to the end of the 1990’s.
An exhibition by Northern Narratives, in partnership with Open Eye Gallery.

Ken Grant

Tom Wood

Martin Parr

AKTION: Conceptual Art and Photography (1960-1980) - Richard Saltoun (until 25 August)

Dennis Oppenheim, Reading Position for Second Degree Burn, 1970

AKTION: Conceptual Art and Photography (1960-1980) is at Richard Saltoun (until 25 August)
Richard Saltoun Gallery presents AKTION: Conceptual Art and Photography (1960-1980) an exhibition which explores the global Conceptual art movement over two decades of photography, through the work of 26 artists from 13 countries. The presentation investigates different conceptual uses of photography within practices dealing with Feminism, political activism, performance and social critique.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Eleanor ANTIN, Keith ARNATT, Renate BERTLMANN, Marcel BROODTHAERS, Günter BRUS, James COLEMAN, Ger VAN ELK, Hans-Peter FELDMANN, Robert FILLIOU, Barry FLANAGAN, Hans HAACKE, Nigel HENDERSON, Ed HERRING, John HILLIARD, Kurt KREN, John LATHAM, Roelof LOUW, Ana MENDIETA, Tony MORGAN, Otto MUEHL, Dennis OPPENHEIM, Gina PANE, Liliana PORTER, Dieter ROTH, Rudolf SCHWARZKOGLER, Marie YATES.