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10 Feb 2011
Chloe Brooks , Group Show at CoExist
30 Jan 2011
3 2 1 A A and away 12..
Carlos Noronha Feio
3, 2, 1, 0 - A A And Away - 1, 2....
Rugs, Video and Installations
The Allsop Gallery
29th January - 12th March
Carlos' work is engaged with the points at which geography and migration meet, where different cultures collide, intertwine or impose their imperatives on each other. He represents these concerns from the personal perspective of his own nationality, weaving his identity with the cultures of the places and histories he encounters internationally.
As in several other works, Carlos Noronha Feio has used Afghan war rugs as a starting point for '...3 2 1 A, A AND AWAY 1 2 ...'
As in several other works, Carlos Noronha Feio has used Afghan war rugs as a starting point for '...3 2 1 A, A AND AWAY 1 2 ...'
Rugs that record history and folklore have a long tradition in Afghanistan. When Soviet tanks arrived in 1979, there was already some awareness of the existence of war rugs, but the invasion intensified their production bringing them to the attention of the collecting public in the west.
With designs drawing on the symbolism used in the Afghan tradition, Carlos Noronha Feio’s rugs are made by traditional carpet makers from the Casa dos Tapetes in Arraiolos, Portugal. This region has been making rugs for over a millennium. It had been an Arab province for many centuries and the influence remains strong. This represents a meeting point between Carlos' own cultural background and that of Afghanistan.
The title '...3 2 1 A, A AND AWAY 1 2...' evokes the idea of space exploration. Reflecting on his voyages, on trade and the connections he was exploring whilst making the work prompted a simple question; ' If we found a new world, pure and simple, what would we export from ours?
The exhibition features his latest work funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Events
Public launch: Thursday 27 January 6pm - 8:30pm
In conversation: Artist and art historian Michael Petry talks with artists Carlos Noronha Feio. FREE - booking recommended. Saturday 26 February 3pm - 5pm.
Public sessions: Introduction and informal discussion of the exhibition over coffee. FREE. 1 hr sessions. Wednesday 2 February 11am & 2.30pm and Wednesday 9 March 11am & 7pm.
By appointment: Week commencing 28ruary - interactive sessions for school, special interest and community groups. Call box office on 01308 424204 to discuss ideas and times.
For more information see also:
www.reflexus.net
www.imagemusictext.com
www.reflexus.net
www.imagemusictext.com
http://www.bridport-arts.com/whats-on/event-details?id=474
17 Jan 2011
Adam Latham
PERFORMANCE ART EVENT: The Dandyism of Contempt
DATE: Thursday, 20th January 2011
LOCATION: CAMDEN TOWN UNLIMITED,
15 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7JE
www.camdentownunlimited.com
The Dandyism of Contempt is a performance art event curated by Vanessa Mitter and Joshua Y'Barbo with performances by: Mark McGowan, Brian 'Dawn' Chalkley, Jack Catling, The Skinjobs, Nicola Ruben Montini, Robin Bale, Douglas Park, Adham Faramawy, Alec Dunnachie, Pauline A. Amos, John Wild, James Gardiner, Kiki Taira, Lennie Lee, Frog Morris, Karl Weill and Edward Cotterill.
Skinjobs on at 7.15 pm
preview of new track 'Beautiful Sea'
from upcoming musical 'South Pacific (A Short Play in Black and White)'
www.adamlatham.co.uk
www.myspace.com/theskinjobs
13 Jan 2011
Albuquerque Mendes / Inaugura_Sábado dia 15
"Trancoso, 17 de Marco de 1953"
15 de Janeiro a 13 de Março 2011
INAUGURAçãO: Sábado dia 15
LOCAL: Galeria de Arte do Teatro Municipal da Guarda
www.tmg.com.pt
+INFO:
No sábado, dia 15 de Janeiro, o Teatro Municipal da Guarda inaugura
na Galeria de Arte a exposição "Trancoso, 17 de Março de 1953" da
autoria do artista plástico Albuquerque Mendes. Natural de Trancoso, este
artista tem protagonizado uma das mais activas e intensas presenças
na cena artística portuguesa. O artista estará na inauguração que
se realizará às 18h00.
A fotógrafa Andreia Poças define a obra de Albuquerque Mendes como
difícil de rotular, uma vez que o artista «cruza sistematicamente
no seu trabalho a performance, a pintura e a instalação, para além
da mail art ou das artes gráficas».
Segundo a fotógrafa, «esta justaposição peculiar de géneros,
elementos, imagens e objectos serve-lhe para interrogar ironicamente
ora os contextos da história da arte, do seu significado e do seu
destino, ora alguns mitos iconográficos da religião, da cultura e
da sociedade portuguesas. É um artista português e, enquanto tal,
obcecado pela religião e, mais gravemente, pelo Cristianismo; as
suas performances são muitas vezes constituídas por rituais
reminiscentes de referências das procissões e das manifestações religiosas e
profanas da cultura popular portuguesa.
Notáveis são o seu humor e utilização táctica do grotesco; é o
caso das suas colagens sobre os travestis, das suas pinturas sobre as
prostitutas ou de uma série de colagens que incluí fragmentos de
fotografias extraídas de revistas pornográficas. As obras de
Albuquerque Mendes deslocam o que é marginal para a arena pública,
com efeitos críticos imediatos mas imprevisíveis, numa sapiente e
mesurada aplicação dos códigos kitsch do grotesco contemporâneo».
"Trancoso, 17 de Março de 1953" de Albuquerque Mendes ficará
patente até 13 de Março. A exposição tem entrada livre e pode ser
visitada de terça a domingo na Galeria de Arte do TMG.
12 Jan 2011
4 Jan 2011
Giorgio Sadotti: Flower Ssnake performance
Wednesday 5 January 2011, 19.00–20.00
As part of Giorgio Sadotti's Christmas tree project, Flower Ssnake, a performance on Twelfth Night will mark the end of the festive season.
Tate Britain Rotunda
Free
Limited places. To ensure a place, please collect a ticket in advance from the Tate Britain Member's Desk.
This event is related to the Christmas Tree 2010: Giorgio Sadotti: Flower Ssnake exhibition
9 Dec 2010
Adam Latham in Publication being Launched at the Two Jonnys'
The launch of a publication by Adam Burton, containing old and new work and texts by 25 artists previously involved with the two Jonnys' project space
Featuring:
Adam Latham, Alastair Levy, Alice Walton, Berry Patten, Cornelius Dupre, Dean Kissick, Des Hughes, Dominic Allan, Ed Atkins, Jo Addison, Kit Hammonds, Lawrence Leaman, Lee Marshall, Leo Fitzmaurice, Matthew
Noel-Tod, Mike Goddard, Nicolas Deshayes, Rachel Tweddell, Robert Filby, Ruairiadh O'Connell, Ryan McLaughlin, Samual Nias, Simon Newby, Toby Christian, Tom Woolner.
At the launch, Bevel, Chamfer will be available to buy for the special price of five pounds, after this it will be available from the two Jonny's website.
The Two Jonnys
191-205 Cambridge Heath Road
London
E2 6JR
http://www.thetwojonnys.org/
[From: The Mews Project Space] Tate Britain Christmas tree strikes blow against baubles
The Mews Project Space spotted this on the guardian.co.uk site and thought you should see it.
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Note from The Mews Project Space:
Giorgio Sadotti
Guardian Article
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To see this story with its related links on the guardian.co.uk site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/09/tate-britain-christmas-tree-sadotti-giorgio
Tate Britain Christmas tree strikes blow against baubles
Artist Giorgio Sadotti gives gallery nine-metre tree lacking any decoration except silver flyers and a bull whip on the floor
Mark Brown, arts correspondent
Friday December 10 2010
guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/09/tate-britain-christmas-tree-sadotti-giorgio
The conceptual artist Giorgio Sadotti admits he had mixed feelings about being asked to provide this year's Christmas tree for Tate Britain ? not least because he used to decorate them for a living.
"We used to go round New York decorating trees ? or over-decorating them, in my opinion ? mainly in the lobbies of corporate offices," he recalled today, without discernible fondness.
Which may be one reason why the artist has chosen to install a nine-metre Norwegian spruce without a single bauble, light, fairy or piece of tinsel. It is as far from Christmassy as it is possible to get: just a big, tree, unadorned, but standing on a floor decorated with blingy silver flyers and a mysterious coiled bull whip.
The installation of the Tate Christmas tree in early December has become part of the art calendar since Bill Woodrow won the first commission and decorated his tree with cardboard sculptures and an illuminated globe in 1988. Since then there have been rats eating mince pies, blackbirds, a bin full of Christmas detritus, a tree that smelled of brandy and, the year Tracey Emin was commissioned, no tree at all because she gave it away to charity.
Sadotti, born in Manchester and based in London, said his idea this year was to keep the tree as natural and forest-like as possible. And should anyone think there had been a minimum of effort on the artist's part, then Sadotti is pleased.
"In a way, I strive to make my work look simple. If someone says, 'Your work's a bit easy,' then for me that's the perfect compliment. I want something to look like it was no effort because I lose interest if something looks like it was a lot of work."
The piece is called Flower Ssnake and the silver flyers at the tree's base are invites to a live action performance on twelfth night, when the tree will be "completed". Sadotti would say only that this would involve the whip and a woman he knew as "Fanny from Marseilles".
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6 Dec 2010
Giorgio Sadotti review in The Telegraph - Tate Britain
Monday 06 December 2010
About: Giorgio Sadotti
Where is the glitter on the Tate Britain's Christmas tree?
This year's festive exhibit will have a startling twist. Mark Hudson reports .
Where would Tate be without a touch of controversy? From Carl Andre's infamous "Tate Bricks" in the 1970s (just a pile of bricks, in case you don't remember) through Tracey Emin's
unmade bed to Martin Creed's Turner Prize-winning The Lights Going On and Off in 2001, Britain's premier modern art gallery has thrived by igniting a glow of righteous indignation in the
belly of middle England.
Yet with the widely held perception that we all now love contemporary art, and with this year's Turner Prize (awarded tonight) raising barely a burble of protest, it might appear that the sting
has gone out of the avant garde. So it will be heartening to some, and infuriating to many more, to see a new cause célèbre on Tate's horizon, one that comes from a most unlikely area: the
gallery's annual Christmas tree.
Since 1988, Tate Britain has commissioned a leading contemporary artist to decorate a tree beneath its splendid glass-covered Rotunda. With Sarah Lucas providing angels made from old
tights in 2006 and Bob & Roberta Smith creating interactive pedal-powered lights two years ago, the results, while not quite falling into the category of all-round family entertainment, have
been an opportunity for artists to demonstrate the cosier side of their talents.
On Thursday, however, artist Giorgio Sadotti will be unveiling a Christmas tree, a towering Norwegian spruce, all gleaming needles, and… well, basically that's it. Or it almost is. If the artist's
contribution appears at first to be negligible, visitors will find mirrored silver cards lying around the base of the tree inviting them to a performance on January 6, Twelfth Night, when the
Christmas decorations are traditionally taken down.
If there is one thing guaranteed to wind up those unconvinced by contemporary art, it isn't the inflammatory quality of the content, so much as the perception that there is no content, that
no effort has been made and that the public is being conned.
Sadotti, however, denies that he is being provocative. "I'm showing what I believe to be a naturally beautiful object," he says. "When you see a tree in the forest you don't think, 'That tree's
naked, it needs a bit of tinsel.' I want people to question the way objects are transformed by being moved from one context to another. And I'm hoping that all the Christmases of the past
will be brought to mind through the power of the imagination."
That's quite a demand to make of gallery goers. Tate had considered promoting the performance on January 6 – which, without giving anything away, promises to be spectacular – as the main
event, rather than the tree itself. Yet Sadotti is adamant that the two are indivisible.
"Without the tree being there for exactly the right amount of time, the performance has no point," he says.
The half-Italian son of a Manchester club owner, Sadotti has been described as "the missing link between John Cage and Tommy Cooper", a specialist in conceptual gags so deadpan and so
fugitive you may not be sure there's a joke, let alone a punchline. In Went to America didn't say a word, he flew to New York with a tape recorder running, walked the streets for 24 hours
and, despite bumping into Julia Roberts by accident, didn't speak. He then exhibited the tapes as the work.
"I was aware from childhood that I could make people laugh," he says. "But I'm not out to get laughs with my work as such. It's all about timing, about doing things people don't expect at
exactly the right moment. That is the essence of comedy, and it's what I'm trying to do with this Christmas tree."
For his contribution to a mixed show in Marseilles, Sadotti arranged for a local circus performer to whip the spaces on the walls between the other artists' works. And whips will feature again
at Tate Britain, when Sadotti lays a large bullwhip beside his Christmas tree at its unveiling. Is his preoccupation with these objects more than just artistic?
"I wish it were that simple," he says, a touch ruefully. "I'm interested in the way objects have a power beyond what they appear to be. A whip makes an amazing sound which you could never
imagine simply by looking at it."
However the whip relates to the Christmas tree and whatever else he may mean by it, Sadotti is insistent that his tree is not a joke. "I'm taking it very seriously," he says. "If I wasn't, it would
have been all too easy to just put a few decorations on a tree."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/8183787/Where-is-the-glitter-on-the-Tate-Britains-Christmas-tree.html
11 Nov 2010
News from: Carlos Noronha Feio - João Leonardo - João Serra
"From the other side of the Atlantic - examples from portuguese photography and video art"
Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Curated by Paulo Reis
Artists: Adelina Lopes, Alexandre Estrela, André Cepeda, André Gomes, Ângela Ferreira, Carlos Noronha Feio, Catarina Campino, Daniel Blaufuks, Daniel Malhão, Duarte Amaral Neto, Duarte Belo, Edgar Martins, Eurico Lino Vale, Filipa Cesar, Joana Pimentel, João Leonardo, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, João Onofre, João Paulo Serafim, João Pedro Vale, João Serra, João Tabarra, José Carlos Teixeira, Luís Palma, Manuela Marques, Mariana Viegas, Miguel Soares, Noé Sendas, Nuno Cera, Paulo Catrica, Pedro Diniz Reis, Rita Magalhaes, Rui Calçada Bastos, Rui Toscano, Samuel Rama e Vasco Araújo.
1 Nov 2010
News from Nelson Crespo
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Nelson Crespo
I: Livros de Artista
II: Conservação de Obras de Arte em Papel
3 e 4 de Novembro de 2010
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